The opening of a new Reus base will be postponed too.
The deferral of the [Reus base] opening from its original date of the 1st October to a new date of 5th November is as a result of the strike by Boeing employees in Seattle which has resulted in the indefinite delay of the shipment of new aircraft to Ryanair.
Announcing the postponement today, Ryanair’s Deputy Chief Executive, Michael Cawley, said:
“We sincerely regret the postponement of the opening of our Reus base but unfortunately the two new aircraft, which we had reserved for this purpose are now indefinitely delayed due to a strike by Boeing employees. However, we are pleased to confirm that due to the reduction in the number of aircraft flying at our other bases during the winter period, we will be able to secure two further aircraft to facilitate the new opening date of 5th November for these exciting new routes from Reus.
We sincerely apologise to all our passengers for the inconvenience caused by this change in our plans but I hope they understand that it is due to circumstances over which we have no control and we look forward to seeing them on board at our new scheduled opening date of 5th November .”
Separately FR announced it was postponing the location of a seventh aircraft at its Bergamo base in Italy by four weeks.