Ryanair, in a statement, has confirmed that it has published the full list of flight cancellations up until the 31st of October.

The airline said that these cancellations have been allocated where possible, to Ryanair’s bigger base airports, and routes with multiple daily frequencies “so that Ryanair can offer these disrupted customers the maximum number of alternate flights and routes in order to minimise inconvenience to them.”

Customers affected by these cancellations will be emailed with offers of alternative flights or full refunds, and details of their EU261 compensation entitlement, the airline said.

Ryanair said that the airports where one line of flying will be removed for the next 6 weeks are as follows:

Barcelona 1 of 12 lines of flights

Brussels Charl 1 of 13 lines of flights

Dublin 1 of 23 lines of flights

Lisbon 1 of 4 lines of flights

London Stan 2 of 41 lines of flights

Madrid 1 of 13 lines of flight

Milan Bergamo 1 of 14 lines of flights

Porto 1 of 8 lines of flights

Rome Fiumi 1 of 3 lines of flights

Ryanair said that while it “sincerely regrets and apologises for these cancellations, they will affect less than 2% of all customers over the next 6 weeks, and the majority of these passengers will be offered alternative flights on the same or next day.”

For those passengers who cannot, or do not wish to take the alternative flights offered they will receive a full refund and their EU261 compensation, the airline said.

Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary, during a press conference said, Ryanair is not short of pilots – we were able to fully crew our peak summer schedule in June, July and August – but we have messed up the allocation of annual leave to pilots in Sept and Oct because we are trying to allocate a full year’s leave into a 9 month period from April to December. This issue will not recur in 2018 as Ryanair goes back onto a 12 month calendar leave year from 1st Jan to 31st December 2018.”

He added that, “this is a mess of our own making. I apologise sincerely to all our customers for any worry or concern this has caused them over the past weekend. We have only taken this decision to cancel this small proportion of our 2,500 daily flights so that we can provide extra standby cover and protect the punctuality of the 98% of flights that will be unaffected by these cancellations.”

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