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Ryanair reveals full list of cancelled flights to and from France

Ryanair has announced its complete list of cancellations until the end of October, after making up to 400,000 frustrated passengers wait to find out if they were among those affected.

Ryanair reveals full list of cancelled flights to and from France
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Ryanair has revealed its full list of cancelled flights until the end of October, after causing uproar among customers across France and Europe on Monday with its announcement that up to 50 flights would be grounded every day for the next six weeks. 
 
Flights between Paris Beauvais and Dublin, as well as Paris Beauvais and Porto are among the routes badly affected, as are journeys between Toulouse and Brussels, and Toulouse and London. 
 
Flights between Marseille and Rome are also among the cancellations scheduled from Monday 25th September until October 28th. 
 
Initially, the Irish airline refused to release a full list, instead publishing a list of cancellations up until Wednesday September 20th, which include flights to and from Paris Beauvais, Toulouse, Lourdes, Tours and Bordeaux. 
 
In response to the cancellations, French consumer magazine 60 Millions de consommateurs has alerted disappointed passengers to their rights in the matter. 
 
While Ryanair indicates the process for changing a flight or getting a refund on its site, the consumer mag says it has been far more discreet about the “the compensation that passengers have a right to claim on top”. 
 
European regulations stipulate that there should be extra compensation for passengers whose flights are cancelled with less than two weeks notice if the company is not offering another flight that arrives within four hours of the one originally booked, explains the magazine. 
 
The compensation can go up to €250 for flights of less than 1,500 km and €400 for European flights of more than 1,500 km. 
 
Passengers who think they're eligible can fill out the request form for the extra compensation HERE
 
For passengers who also booked places to stay, the case could end up going before a tribunal, said the magazine. 
 
Ryanair says the move to cancel flights has been taken in order to improve punctuality, that has fallen below its target of 90 percent of flights.
 
The company blames that deterioration in performance on the impact of strikes, adverse weather and a backlog of leave for pilots of crews.

 

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UPDATE: Ryanair passenger jet makes emergency landing in Berlin over ‘fake bomb threat’

Polish police said Monday they were investigating a fake bomb threat that forced a Ryanair passenger plane travelling from Dublin to Krakow to make an emergency landing in Berlin.

UPDATE: Ryanair passenger jet makes emergency landing in Berlin over 'fake bomb threat'
A Ryanair flight making an emergency landing

The flight from Dublin to Krakow made the unexpected diversion after a reported bomb threat, German newspaper Bild Zeitung said.

“We were notified by the Krakow airport that an airport employee received a phone call saying an explosive device had been planted on the plane,” said regional police spokesman, Sebastian Glen.

“German police checked and there was no device, no bomb threat at all. So we know this was a false alarm,” he told AFP on Monday.

“The perpetrator has not been detained, but we are doing everything possible to establish their identity,” Glen added, saying the person faces eight years in prison.

With 160 people on board, the flight arrived at the Berlin Brandenburg airport shortly after 8 pm Sunday, remaining on the tarmac into early Monday morning.

A Berlin police spokesperson said that officers had completed their security checks “without any danger being detected”.

“The passengers will resume their journey to Poland on board a spare aeroplane,” she told AFP, without giving more precise details for the alert.

The flight was emptied with the baggage also searched and checked with sniffer dogs, German media reported.

The passengers were not able to continue their journey until early Monday morning shortly before 4:00 am. The federal police had previously classified the situation as harmless. The Brandenburg police are now investigating the case.

Police said that officers had completed their security checks “without any danger being detected”.

“The Ryanair plane that made an emergency landed reported an air emergency and was therefore immediately given a landing permit at BER,” airport spokesman Jan-Peter Haack told Bild.

“The aircraft is currently in a safe position,” a spokeswoman for the police told the newspaper.

The incident comes a week after a Ryanair flight was forced to divert to Belarus, with a passenger — a dissident journalist — arrested on arrival.

And in July last year, another Ryanair plane from Dublin to Krakow was forced to make an emergency landing in London after a false bomb threat.

READ ALSO: Germany summons Belarus envoy over forced Ryanair landing

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