Ryanair to cancel more Polish flights

Irish budget airline Ryanair will cancel 18,000 flights from its fall/winter schedule, including a number of them from Poland. According to the company, routes between Szczecin and Edinburgh, Hamburg and Katowice, Newcastle and Gdańsk, Warsaw-Thessaloniki, and Kraków-Trapani will be suspended indefinitely, as well as all domestic flights from and to Chopin Warsaw Airport. The airline will also cancel flights between Warsaw-London and Warsaw-Brussels on selected dates. Overall, according to Ryanair, 400,000 passengers will have their flights canceled worldwide, with 34 routes suspended. As highlighted, all passengers affected by flight cancellations will receive an alternative travel or full refund offer, as well as €40 (one-way) or €80 (two-way) vouchers. This is another wave of cancellations, after the airline said two weeks ago, that it will be canceling up to 50 flights daily for the period of six weeks after it claimed that due to a “mess-up” on pilot rostering its staff will be limited during this period. According to Irish pilots’ union, the reason for the cancellation is the implantation of new EU-wide law, that changes how the working hours for pilots are being calculated. This year over 700 pilots left the airline as well.