Ryanair pays a price for flight cancellations
RThe fall in Ryanair’s punctuality below 80 per cent compared to an average of 89 yanair shares fell on Monday after the per cent in the three months to the end of Irish budget airline disrupted the plans June. of hundreds of thousands of travellers Chief Executive Michael O’Leary said by cancelling flights to cope with pilot at the time he was not happy with that shortages and improve its punctuality figure, seeking a mark of over 90 per cent. record. According to OAG flightview, which Ryanair blamed a number of factors counts flights as on-time when they depart for the sudden cancellations including a or arrive within 15 minutes of schedule, backlog of staff leave, which must be taken Ryanair’s on-time per entage also dropped by the end of the year. to 81.3 per cent in August and 80.1 per
Europe’s largest airline by passenger cent in July. numbers also said air traffic control strikes Rival easyJet, which has been investing and weather disruption were affecting its in making its operations less prone to performance. delays after being named Britain’s tardiest
Rival Norwegian Air said on Monday airline for the last two summers, had an that it had recruited more than 140 pilots on-time percentage of 68.3 per cent in from Ryanair this year, adding to the Analysts at Dublin-based Goodbody August. squeeze on staffing. Stockbrokers estimated that the The Irish Independent reported on
Seeking to halt a decline in performance cancellations would cost the airline Monday that Ryanair has been offering figures, Ryanair has taken the unusual step around 34.5 million euros ($41.2 million) pilots a 10,000 euro ($11,925) “signingof announcing plans to cancel between — comprising 23.5 million euros in on bonus” in response to recruitment 40 and 50 flights per day until the end of compensation, 6.3 million euros in lost problems. October. fees, and 4.7 million euros in subsistence Ryanair declined to comment on the
Ryanair said the cancellations were such as meals, drinks and accommodation. report and the comments from Norwegian designed “to improve Air.itssystem-wideGoodbodysaidthatwouldshave2.3 punctuality which has fallen below 80 per per cent off its full year forecast of 1.479 Ryanair employed 4,058 pilots at the cent in the first two weeks of September.” billion euros in profit after tax. end of March, according to its annual
Ryanair sent e-mails to the first affected In July, Ryanair reiterated its 1.4 to 1.45 report, up from 3,424 a year earlier to passengers last Friday, giving them the billion euro forecast for the financial year keep up with a rapid growth in passenger choice of a refund or an alternative flight. ending March 31, 2018. numbers.
It has issued cancellation notices up Barring exceptional circumstances, Training company CAE Inc warned until Wednesday. The move brought bad airlines must under EU rules provide at recently that the worldwide commercial publicity for an airline which has worked least two weeks’ notice to avoid paying aviation industry will need an extra hard over the past few years to improve a compensation of 250 euros per passenger 255,000 pilots by 2027 to sustain its rapid reputation for treating passengers badly. for flights of 1,500 km or less or 400 euros growth and is not moving fast enough to
News bulletins in Ireland ran for longer flights within the bloc. fill the positions. interviews with disgruntled customers while newspapers asked readers to share their stories, including a wedding party who told the Irish Times they had been left stranded in France.