Ryanair cancel flights due to pilot shortage?

[Dockjock]

Thank you GCC. Perhaps you need to increase the gain on your sarcasm detector?

[Packsonflight]

Everybody know that MOL is a pretty slick guy at the negotiatingtable. Maby he negotiated fat compensations in case of delivery dalays. It is more than likely that there are some delivery delays because of the strike with Boeing. Then MOL can make more money by letting his fleet sitting on the ground, and collect compensations from Boeing specially since he has no drivers.
The only thing he has to do, is to state that the cancelled flights where scheduled on the supposed-to-be-here aircrafts, and then collect the money from Boeing.

[Wing Commander Fowler]

Jeez! I sometimes think NASA lost one or two of their spacemen and they turned up here!

Packsonflight - do you REALLY think Boeing are THAT stupid???

There are NO DRIVERS - PERIOD!!!

[EI-CFC]

Just a guess in the dark ... Boeing can take a little bad publicity like this as it will not dent them - they are big enough.

In fairness, I think Ethiad are also in a bind due to late delivery of aircraft, so FR aren't alone in this respect.

[Matty J]

Originally Posted by EI-CFC

In fairness, I think Ethiad are also in a bind due to late delivery of aircraft, so FR aren't alone in this respect.

FR have plenty of A/C and have just tried to cover up their own errors. I work for them and at STN on Wednesday a large number of A/C were sat doing nothing for most of the day.

I've spoken to various FR captains and they've all said the same, the rostering has been screwed up again just like previous years and its put alot of pilots out of hours at the same time.

In the last month or so they have had a large number of A/C delivered from boeing, they just don't have the people to fly them.

Regards.

[bacardi walla]

Originally Posted by EI-CFC

In fairness, I think Ethiad are also in a bind due to late delivery of aircraft, so FR aren't alone in this respect.

the difference with FR and Etihad is that the latter don't blame others for their own mistakes.

It's a classic old saying of what came first. The chicken or the egg, or in FR's case, the crew or the planes

[beernice]

Most guys at STN between 800-850 hours now. I have only one days flying rostered next week. But this may not be hurting Ryanair as much as you would think. Its the time of the year that the airline would look at cutting capacity anyway.

[I LUV DUFF]

Cutting back on the schedule is one thing but cancelling thousands of flights,come on!
New hires are only replacing people jumping ship.
Training Dept completely backed up.
A/C continue to be delivered.
Lots of pilots about to be out of hours for Feb and Mar thanks to their "amazing" FTL scheme which lets everyone run out of hours at the same time.
Expect lots more cancellations and plenty of wet leases over the coming months.
Looks like someone has bit off more than they can chew.

[fly-half]

Apparently there are around 30 pilots from Excel Airways flying for Ryanair during the winter as part of an ongoing agreement. I wonder what will happen when these pilots need to return to Excel in time for the summer season.

[FlyingIrishman]

The Excel pilots finish their contracts at the end of March, in time for the hours to be zeroed, so it's a case of deferring the problem for a while, and as always, the attitude of "we'll cross that bridge when we come to it".

[BEagle]

How on earth can 'hours be zeroed'? Isn't the limitation 900 hours in the previous 12 months? How can someone have 899 hours in the previous 12 months on 31 Mar, but 0 hourson 1 Apr - unless they didn't fly at all from the previous 1 Apr?

[jazzcat2000]

Our 900hr limit is not a rolling year like with the UK CAA, the Ryanair year runs from start of April to end of March. The 100hr limit still works on rolling 28 days.
I personally like this system, worked hard and logged 800hrs by Christmas and that left me with 100hrs for the next the three months.
Ryanair know they are short of crews every Feb / March but wet leases are in place and Exel crews fly for us until end of March when we all have 900hrs left again.

[BEagle]

Presumably JAR-OPS Section 1 Subpart Q will be revised under EASA to make it clear even to the IAA that 'the past 12 months' is indeed a rolling 12 month period?

It amazes me that the IAA haven't already spelled out to airlines under their regulation that the 12 month period is a rolling 12 months. How on earth can they possibly consider it to be otherwise?

[FS-chick]

Tha new QRH at Ryanair

[sky9]

OK so the situation is:
All the pilots are high on hours.
The aircraft are sitting around doing nothing.
Cancellations blamed on Boeing.

Seems like a logical arguement to me.
The reality is somebody had a "French Connection"

[Phil Hudson]

Originally Posted by sky9

All the pilots are high on hours.
The aircraft are sitting around doing nothing.

Yeah, that's pretty much the situation today.

[Packsonflight]

In light of all this is it possible that MOL is actually collecting compensations from Boeing because of delivery delays?
It is a brilliant manuver, to let Boeing pay for your own mess!!!

[Flap 5]

What's all this about the IAA having different regulations to the UK CAA? They are part of JAR-OPS aren't they?

[sky9]

Flap 5

It isn't that the IAA have different regulations, it's that Ryanair convinced them that they were special and needed something slightly different. What has happened was predicted when the "fiddle" was first exposed on PPRuNe a couple of years ago.

[the grim repa]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...001350,00.html