Surely this is just the first wave of Brexit impacts that Ryanair has been indicating. An Irish Airline operating domestic routes in the UK (outside the EU) - in the current Brexit situation, most of these flights would be unlikely to continue after March 2019, irrespective of the crew shortage. Not a surprise they are cut now.

Flitefone.....Again supposition only & not reflecting a true grasp of situations....

Full list of Ryanair's 34 suspended routes for winter 2017/18 scheduled.

Bucharest – Palermo
Chania – Athens
Chania – Pafos
Chania – Thessaloniki
Cologne – Berlin (SXF)
Edinburgh – Szczecin
Glasgow – Las Palmas
Hamburg – Edinburgh
Hamburg – Katowice
Hamburg – Oslo (TRF)
Hamburg – Thessaloniki
Hamburg – Venice (TSF)
London (LGW) – Belfast (BFS)
London (STN) – Edinburgh
London (STN) – Glasgow
Newcastle – Faro
Newcastle – Gdansk
Sofia – Castellon
Sofia – Memmingen
Sofia – Pisa
Sofia – Stockholm (NYO)
Sofia – Venice (TSF)
Thessaloniki – Bratislava
Thessaloniki – Paris (BVA)
Thessaloniki – Warsaw (WMI)
Trapani – Baden Baden
Trapani – Frankfurt (HHN)
Trapani – Genoa
Trapani – Krakow
Trapani – Parma
Trapani – Rome (FIU)
Trapani – Trieste
Wroclaw – Warsaw
Gdansk – Warsaw

How come most of the suspended routes are EU - EU?

the way this is going I don't see Ryanair being around next year, the reputational damage has to be getting pretty close to being terminal, other airlines that can cover the routes that they are cancelling must be rubbing their hands in glee.

I feel very sorry for the crew. Many of these routes, and there will be more to come, are from small bases. Crews will go without work = pay or they will have to move across Europe to find dribbles & scraps of work for 6 months, all at their own cost. Not happy bunnies.

Ryanair could bounce back from almost any reputational crisis. They appear immune

A big risk to them is that they lose the business travel they've worked hard to develop, and with it the yields from last minute bookings and premium 'upgrades'. For example, the cuts go beyond these route cancellations (many of which to be frank no one else would operate anyway). It's frequency reductions that might cost them, e.g. STN-FRA is now once daily some days, STN-CPH is sometimes twice daily.

Indeed, critics are loud, but success is louder.

Was BFS LGW not recently said to the busiest domestic route ? EZY will be happy bunnies having it back to themselves ! ( I know EI fly BHD LGW )

London (LGW) – Belfast (BFS)
What a supraise though this route was doing very well but as per usual the pax speaks louder that words

Ryanair had no choice in closing down some routes and frequencies if you calculate the total amount of cancelled flights added to the suspended routes and frequencies it's a huge number and what ever they call it these all add up to cancelled flights.

But again if anyone is looking for a winter sun holiday over autumn winter spring I doubt they will risk booking Ryanair when there seems no end to this crisis but I guess taking a chance on a last minute weekend away for a tenner you got nothing to loose

But I have to agree this is hurting Ryanair more than anyone knows and is helping the likes of jet2 easyJet and the charters that Ryanair took a chunk of.

Ryanair shares up 2.5% in afternoon trading...As Sober Lark states critics are loud but success is louder.

It must be getting real bad

Ryanair has pulled out of bidding for rival Alitalia, saying it needed to “eliminate all management distractions”

Yup the City liked that statement...Perhaps tho RYR were looking for a convenient exit having played the part of "disruptor" & knowing full well an Italian Government & unions would never allow ceding control of the national airline to MOL..

I don't think that the list of cancelled routes published today is complete because my flights to/from Copenhagen from Edinburgh in November have just been cancelled. Luckily I managed to rebook on Norwegian. Never flown with them before but they look to be a good alternative for future flights as well. Be glad to hear of any others with experience of flying with them.

Hardly

Pulling back on expansion to consolidate what they have.

Despite the media crap it has taken ages to respond they have acted decisevely and quickly.

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Thye aren't but they understand they were being distracted and have acted accordingly.

When succesful companies lose focus it can be damaging.................. getting rid of distraction is best option as even if they bought it there would be significant management time required to turn it around.
Sticking to the knitting is the appropraite expression for a reason.

For example, the cuts go beyond these route cancellations (many of which to be frank no one else would operate anyway).

The advantage they have, morally, legally or rightly so, is that they can close down these routes, which are crewed by 'contractors', at no cost. They simply tell the 'contractors' to move somewhere else or do not use them at all and give them an empty roster.
Many times we hear that RYR are coming into an airport, will bring 000's of pax and so create 00's of jobs in the local economy. For this magic they demand special treatment. No-one seems to ask what effect the closure of routes has on the local economy and local jobs. Surely that is a 2-way street.

The cost of these cancellations is set to go from €22m to near €50m, if I was a shareholder I would be calling for someone to be axed and that would be somebody high up. I don't care how big they are this will seriously hurt them for a long time to come.

It could be that...

... but lack of crew is a really bad reason for an airline expecting many new deliveries to be cancelling routes at a quiet time of year. It's the unholy trinity of problems that makes this slightly more serious than serious.

We're also getting an interesting insight into their operations, and into the market in general. Some of these routes may be where they have particularly most trouble recruiting pilots, but overall it's likely that they are their worst routes (and if you look at the recent Wizz cancellations then that figures).

They'll still be around obviously; there I completely agree. But whereas before they were just striding around announcing that they didn't mind the smell of anything anyone threw at them and that it probably wouldn't stick anyway; this time they are going to be left with a black eye and a limp.

But maybe they can negotiate for 14 free pilots with every 737 delivery?

Sky News reporting that RA are facing enforcement action by the CAA.

Ryanair faces action by regulator for 'persistently misleading passengers'

Must have had really poor booked forward loads if only 400,000 are claimed to be affected from the 3,402,000 seats being chopped with 18,000 cancellations = 11.75%.

Somehow I can't believe that...

Anyway, get your EU261 claims submitted and demand they re-book you on other carriers.

Because many of the seats on these routes are only booked near the time. Who books a flight to London months ahead?

The same press release stated that cancelled flights would effect on average less than one flight per day....it's up to 5 at BFS. The spin is ridiculous and I hope somebody finds a way to throw the book at them.

All the nice bits of EU261 do not apply because there is more than two weeks notice.

So, why have I been given £120's worth of vouchers? Does this mean that they are trying to avoid paying some sort of payout and should I be avoiding utilizing this?

Lucrative business class they've been gradually building since first launching it. They're cheaper compared to other business class tickets on BA or Aer Lingus, for example. A lot of corporate busines class tickets booked way ahead for planned meeting slots.

When FR sort this latest challenge out, do not be surprised if FR go full tilt into a series of aggressively cheap pricing to win back business from others. Nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast. FR have vast cash reserves to sustain very long price wars that will cause serious financial stresses for others. I think this FR rostering cluster flup will pass, but it's what FR do on the offensive which interests me now.

GLA to STN Slots
 

So FR Fly three times a day GLA to STN,can someone else step in and use these slots ie easyjet or are these FR slots to use only?

Now the CAA action against Ryanair is 1st headline on BBC News

"Ryanair threatened with legal action by UK regulator"

Ryanair threatened with legal action by UK regulator - BBC News

Meanwhile the IAA poodle in Dublin still couldn't care less.

Did you read the email? It's positioned as an "apology" but really is an attempt to encourage you to spend more money. I got £160 but its still not enough for us to go anywhere we'd like to go without paying more money.

Rowly6339....Don`t worry...RYR in keeping with all large corporations will always keep their shareholders the happiest first...the dividend will be maintained & probably increased.Yes questions will be asked & behind the scenes the institutions will no doubt be hoppity but ho hum life goes on..

Don't worry about Norwegian, used them several times very good, I'm sure you'll be flying with them again after your first trip.

the new flights from LONDON SOUTHEND TO GLASGOW which starts at the end of oct could pick up some extra pax

"RYANAIR - Continent Cut Off" :rolleyes:

Most of the UK voted for BREXIT. Now which waves do Britania hope to rule in Europe? They want an a la carte separation, they desire EU laws for compensation, open skies etc etc. Membership has its benefits which won't apply in the not too distant future.

Theresa May and others are slow to negotiate and the divorce bill is mounting. In business if blocked you can't wait forever as on onlooker you just move on.

Ah BREXIT,

Of course that's what's causing this Ryanair turmoil, and explains perfectly why only 7 of the 34 routes suspended (20%) either start or end in the UK, and 31 of the routes, (91%) have a start or end in a non UK country. Funny that....

It will be why Air Berlin is going under too.......

Just wait til Ireland really gets the hang of being a net contributor for a few years :)