Ryanair smug

Not for the first time Ryanair has laid claim to being the best organised of Europe’s airlines.

Two statements last week appeared to back-up the claim that it is better managed than some. The Dublin-based airline is not immune from delays and crew shortages.

On Monday (20 June), in the middle of IATA, it issued a statement saying it had launched 200 rescue flights on its routes from 19 UK airports to Europe to facilitate UK families whose flights are being cancelled by BA, easyJet and TUI.  Other airlines took the sensible view of not responding as to whether true or not.

By Friday (24 June) it was confident enough to confirm that less than 2% of its 3,000 daily flights have been affected by strikes, mainly confined to minor disruptions in Belgium, where over 60% of Ryanair’s scheduled flights to/from Charleroi and Zaventem will operate.

No details of this week’s operations have been published but the airline did say that over the weekend just gone the carrier expected over 98% of its 3,000 daily flights will operate normally.

See BTN 20 June regarding Ryanair strikes.

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