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Ryanair provides update on flight cancellations Ryanair provides update on flight cancellations
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Ryanair has provided an update on its progress at working through the cancellation of 2,100 of its 103,000 flights over the next six weeks. Ryanair has stepped up its efforts to deal with the 2,100 flights it has cancelled during the next six weeks.
It says all 315,000 customers received emails on Monday advising them of flight changes and offering alternative flights, refunds and EU261 notices. It says all 315,000 customers received emails on Monday advising them of the flight changes and offering alternative flights, refunds and compensation.
The airline said that by the end of Wednesday, it expected to have reassigned 55% of customers affected to other Ryanair flights. The airline said that by the end of Wednesday, it expected to have reassigned 55% of the customers - 175,000 - to other Ryanair flights.
That amounts to more than 175,000. Meanwhile, more than 63,000 refunds will have been processed, it said.
Ryanair also said it had taken on extra staff to deal with the backlog.
The airline is cancelling 40 to 50 flights every day for the next six weeks, after it admitted it had "messed up" the planning of pilot holidays.The airline is cancelling 40 to 50 flights every day for the next six weeks, after it admitted it had "messed up" the planning of pilot holidays.
Ryanair estimates that the episode will cost it up to 20m euros (£17.7m), though this figure could eventually be higher, as the airline's estimate amounts to only 63 euros per affected passenger.
The total number of passengers affected is, however, lower than the airline's original figure of 390,000 because Ryanair's planes were only 70% booked in October, compared with 90% full in September.
The airline also said it had taken on extra office staff to deal with the backlog of flight changes and compensation requests.
It added that it hoped to have dealt with more than 95% of the affected customers by the end of this week.
Kenny Jacobs, Ryanair's chief marketing officer, apologised again for its mistakes.
"We have taken on extra customer service teams to speed up the rate at which we accommodate and action alternative flight requests or refund applications," he said.
"We expect to have the vast majority of these completed by the end of this week.
"The vast majority of these requests are being dealt with online, but as our call centres and chat lines are extremely busy, we ask affected customers to bear with us as we do everything we can to respond to their requests and try to resolve any problems we have created for them, for which we again sincerely apologise," he added.