SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
 
 
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
 
FORM 6-K
 
 
Report of Foreign Private Issuer
 
 
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
 
 
 
For the month of September 2017
 
RYANAIR HOLDINGS PLC
(Translation of registrant's name into English)
 
c/o Ryanair Ltd Corporate Head Office
Dublin Airport
County Dublin Ireland
(Address of principal executive offices)
 
 
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual
reports under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.
 
Form 20-F..X.. Form 40-F 
 
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information
contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the
Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934.
 
 
Yes   No ..X..
 
 
If "Yes" is marked, indicate below the file number assigned to the registrant
in connection with Rule 12g3-2(b): 82- ________
 
 
 
 
RYANAIR PUBLISHES LIST OF FLIGHTS TO BE CANCELLED UP TO END OF OCTOBER
 
OVER 98% OF RYANAIR CUSTOMERS WILL BE UNAFFECTED
 
 
Ryanair today (18 Sept) confirmed that it has published the full list of flight cancellations (now less than 50 per day) between Thurs 21 st Sept. to Tues 31 st Oct. next. These cancellations have been allocated where possible, to Ryanair's bigger base airports, and routes with multiple daily frequencies so that Ryanair can offer these disrupted customers the maximum number of alternate flights and routes in order to minimise inconvenience to them.
 
The full list of these flight cancellations (from Thurs 21 st to Tues Oct 31 st ) will appear on the Ryanair.com website later today, and customers affected by these cancellations will be emailed with offers of alternative flights or full refunds, and details of their EU261 compensation entitlement.
 
The airports where one line of flying will be removed for the next 6 weeks are as follows, (these airports have been selected because of the high frequency of flights Ryanair operates to/from these airports where customers can be offered the most accommodating options):
 
 
Barcelona
 
1 of 12 lines of flights
 
 
Brussels Charl
 
1 of 13 lines of flights
 
 
Dublin
 
1 of 23 lines of flights
 
 
Lisbon
 
1 of 4 lines of flights
 
 
London Stan
 
2 of 41 lines of flights
 
 
Madrid
 
1 of 13 lines of flight
 
 
Milan Bergamo
 
1 of 14 lines of flights
 
 
Porto
 
1 of 8 lines of flights
 
 
Rome Fiumi
 
1 of 3 lines of flights
 
 
 
While Ryanair sincerely regrets and apologises for these cancellations, it pointed out that they will affect less than 2% of all customers over the next 6 weeks, and the majority of these passengers will be offered alternative flights on the same or next day. For those passengers who cannot, or do not wish to take the alternative flights offered they will receive a full refund and their EU261 compensation.
 
 
Ryanair's Michael O'Leary said;
 
"While over 98% of our customers will not be affected by these cancellations over the next 6 weeks, we apologise unreservedly to those customers whose travel will be disrupted, and assure them that we have done our utmost to try to ensure that we can re-accommodate most of them on alternative flights on the same or next day.
 
Ryanair is not short of pilots - we were able to fully crew our peak summer schedule in June, July and August - but we have messed up the allocation of annual leave to pilots in Sept and Oct because we are trying to allocate a full year's leave into a 9 month period from April to December. This issue will not recur in 2018 as Ryanair goes back onto a 12 month calendar leave year from 1 st Jan to 31 st December 2018.
 
This is a mess of our own making. I apologise sincerely to all our customers for any worry or concern this has caused them over the past weekend. We have only taken this decision to cancel this small proportion of our 2,500 daily flights so that we can provide extra standby cover and protect the punctuality of the 98% of flights that will be unaffected by these cancellations."
 
 
ENDS
 
 
For further information
 
please contact:
 
Robin Kiely

Piaras Kelly
 
 
 
Ryanair Ltd
 
Edelman Ireland
 
 
 
Tel: +353-1-9451949
 
Tel: +353-1-6789 333
 
 
 
press@ryanair.com
 
ryanair@edelman.com
 
 
 
 
 
 
SIGNATURES
 
 Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, hereunto duly authorized.
 
 
 
RYANAIR HOLDINGS PLC
 
 
 
Date: 18 September, 2017
 
 
 
 
 
 
By:___/s/ Juliusz Komorek____
 
 
 
Juliusz Komorek
 
Company Secretary
 
 
 
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