Like mum told you, sometimes telling the truth is the easiest course of action.
Having been intrigued by the claims here and the apparently determined desire to defend the indefensible, I’ve been off making inquiries. Here is the “real” story as best I can sort it out. A couple of the “sympathetic to Ryanair” posters here are probably managers trying to keep the lid on a little management problem in Ryanair. The problem is bad in a narrow sense, but not worth a cover-up. The cover-up may be due to the fact that somebody might get beheaded by MOL (the system requires victims!). So obsessed are they with the cover up that the merits of telling the truth never seem to have crossed their minds!
It’s simple. Under management – caused by employing too few people and over-stretching those that are there – has led to a major breakdown in the leave system. There probably is enough leave to give to most of those who want it (or so it is claimed) but the system for recording and allocating it has broken down badly (as in, is in a mess). Like the EMA instructor shortage, this is all due to the corporate “management” style and “we’ll sort that out later” philosophy. A consultant from Head Office has arrived “to help” (bet they just love that!).
Thus the reason that leave cannot be booked until April is simply that the system has collapsed. The posters here pretending that it is working are thus very unlikely to be line pilots. Yes, I found myself a mole. When the fellow travellers get fed up even they dump some news from time to time. So, Pulp Fiction, oh sorry X-Centric, have I got it right?