Ryanair Flight Changes
Ryanair, Europe’s largest low fares airline today announced a series of minor modifications to its flight schedule during the months of September and October arising from delays in the delivery of seven aircraft which were scheduled to be received in September and October, but are now not expected to be delivered until November and December.
Boeing, Ryanair’s aircraft supplier have experienced work stoppages since early September. Ryanair is now assuming that these disruptions will continue until at least the end of October. There is every possibility that the dispute at Boeing may be resolved earlier than this date, however Ryanair is keen to give passengers the maximum degree of notice, and has therefore taken the following steps with regard to its September/October flight programme:
Three of the 737-200 series aircraft which were due to be retired in September will continue in service until the end of October.
2. The new base launches in Liverpool and Pisa, both of which are scheduled to commence on 27th September and 10th October will proceed as normal with Ryanair using a new 737-800 which was delivered by Boeing in early September, and also using one of the three spare 800’s for the month of October.
3. Approximately 200 flights (representing less than 1%) have been amalgamated during the month of October. Ryanair expects that the financial impact of the amalgamations will be immaterial in both the third quarter and in the full year results.
Ryanair will continue to liaise closely with Boeing as the dispute evolves through the remainder of September and into October. If there is a likelihood of the dispute continuing into November, Ryanair will make an early decision and ensure that all passengers are notified of any schedule changes during the first week of October if at that time it is expected that the impact will continue into November.
As always Ryanair’s primary objective is to provide our customers with as much advance notice as possible of these minor schedule alterations, whilst at the same time fully supporting our partners Boeing as they work with their people to resolve the current dispute and resume delivering the world’s best aircraft to the world’s favourite international airline.