Ryanair cancels more flights – ALL Chania winter routes affected

Ryanair announced on Wednesday 27 September that ‘it will slow its growth this winter (Nov 17 to Mar 18), by flying 25 less aircraft’ from November, and 10 fewer aircraft from April 2018. By reducing its flying schedule in this manner Ryanair claims that it will eliminate all risk of further flight cancellations, because slower growth creates lots of spare aircraft and crews across Ryanair’s 86 bases this winter.

The temporary suspension of 34 routes over the winter, includes flights from London Stansted to Edinburgh and Glasgow, Gatwick to Belfast, Newcastle to Faro, and Glasgow to Las Palmas, and all flights from Chania to Athens, Thessaloniki and Pafos .

Given the recent government announcements for all year round tourism in Crete , perhaps now is the time for the government to encourage another airline to step in to the shoes of Ryan Air, who seems to be doing too well to worry about upsetting 800,000 of its customers.

And I do not recall being on a Ryan Air flight from or to Chania that was not full.

The 34 suspended Ryanair routes from November to March 2018:

1. Bucharest – Palermo	18. Sofia – Castellon
2. Chania – Athens	19. Sofia – Memmingen
3. Chania – Pafos	20. Sofia – Pisa
4. Cologne – Berlin	21. Sofia – Stockholm
5. Chania – Thessaloniki	22. Sofia – Venice
6. Edinburgh – Szczecin	23. Thessaloniki – Bratislava
7. Glasgow – Las Palmas	24. Thessaloniki – Paris
8. Hamburg – Edinburgh	25. Thessaloniki – Warsaw
9. Hamburg – Katowice	26. Trapani – Baden Baden
10. Hamburg – Oslo	27. Trapani – Frankfurt
11. Hamburg – Thessaloniki	28. Trapani – Genoa
12. Hamburg – Venice	29. Trapani – Krakow
13. London Gatwick – Belfast	30. Trapani – Parma
14. London Stansted – Edinburgh	31. Trapani – Rome
15. London Stansted – Glasgow	32. Trapani – Trieste
16. Newcastle – Faro	33. Wroclaw – Warsaw
17. Newcastle – Gdansk	34. Gdansk – Warsaw

Ryanair is also pulling out of its plans to bid for Alitalia, Italy’s bankrupt airline. “In order to focus on repairing this rostering problem this winter, Ryanair will eliminate all management distractions starting with its interest in Alitalia,” the company said.