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Ryanair criticised over cancellations Ryanair has found itself in hot water with both passengers and regulators over a series of lastminute flight cancellations across Europe.
instead. This has resulted in large numbers of pilots and other staff taking holiday leave towards the end of this year. “We have messed up in the planning of pilot holidays and we’re working hard to fix that,” confessed marketing officer Kenny Jacobs. Attempting to put a positive spin on the public relations disaster, the company said that “fewer than 2% of its flights would be cancelled and the move would help it hit its annual punctuality target of 90%”. After a host of complaints, Ryanair did eventually publish a list of the flights being cancelled. In France, affected airports are Paris Beauvais, Marseille and Toulouse. Ryanair initially emailed
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yanair is no stranger to c o n t r o v e r s y, but even by its own standards September was a difficult month for the company’s PR department. After initially announcing that it would be cancelling 40-50 flights per day over a sixweek period until the end of October, Europe’s largest airline then revealed that it was to ground 25 planes between November and March, cancelling a further 18,000 flights. In total, almost 700,000 passengers have had their travel plans affected. The cancellations are due to a mix-up with staff holiday allocations. The airline is changing its holiday year, which currently runs from April to March, to run from January to December
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