Volcanic Ash Disruption Megathread

Due to a cloud of volcanic ash coming from Iceland, and closure of northern European airspace, many flights are cancelled today :

From 0900 local time, no RYR flights to/from UK
From 1000 local no RYR flight to/from Ireland
From 1130 local, no RYR flight to/from Norway, Sweden, Denmark

http://www.ryanair.com/en/notices/gops/100414-ICELAND_ASH-GB

To-morrow, the cloud will arrive above part of Western Europ, and there will be more flight cancellations.

All Ryanair flights to and from the UK are now canceled today

Is the flight FR1448 still on for tomorrow???

I have been trying to contact the ryanair helpdesk for over 45 mins and cannot alter my booking online as i have already checked in, any ideas on what i can do next???

Belgian airspace closed from 1630 local time, and thus CRL also.

UK airspace closed till 7am tomorrow

CRL closed until to-morrow friday 6 PM.

SARASFW wrote:I have been trying to contact the ryanair helpdesk for over 45 mins and cannot alter my booking online as i have already checked in, any ideas on what i can do next???

Some information on how to cope with the situation here :

http://www.ryanair.com/en/notices/gops/100414-ICELAND_ASH-GB

UK airspace once again closed till 7pm =/

Hello!
My flight Fr8868 from London Stansted to Tours is not listed in the cancelled flights list. I think that it will still be cancelled, but I can't contact either of the airports or the ryanair helpline so I don't know what to do.
Can you please give me some advice?

On the Ryanair website :

Friday 16th Apr
All flights today to/from the UK are cancelled.
All flights today to/from Ireland are cancelled (Dublin-Cork-Kerry domestic flight may operate from 13:00hrs)
All flights today to/from Denmark and Finland are cancelled.
All flights today to/from Norway and Sweden are cancelled until 13:00hrs.
All flights today to/from Belgium and Holland are cancelled until 17:00hrs.
All flights today to/from Northern France are cancelled until 17:00hrs.
All flights to /from Northern Germany are cancelled until 17:00hrs.
All flights to/from airports in Central and Southern Europe (Spain, Sth France, Italy etc) are operating normally (unless to/from countries listed above).

Belgian airspace (and CRL) closed until at least tomorrow 10 am local time.

If it can be of any help : the emergency number presently set up at CRL is 078/15.27.22 from 08.00 to 22.00.

On the updated RYR website :

Update 18:00hrs - 16 April
Friday 16 April until Monday 19th April 13:00hrs
All flights to/from the UK are cancelled.
All flights to/from Ireland are cancelled
All flights to/from Denmark and Finland are cancelled.
All flights to/from Norway and Sweden are cancelled.
All flights to/from Belgium and Holland are cancelled.
All flights to/from Northern France (Lille, Brest, Dinard, Paris Beauvais) are cancelled.
All flights to/from Northern Germany Frankfurt Hahn, Bremen, Dusseldorf(Weeze), Hamburg(Lubeck) Berlin(Schonefeld)are cancelled.
All flights to /from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia are cancelled.
All flights to/from airports in Central and Southern Continental Europe (Spain, Sth France, Italy etc) continue to operate normally (unless to/from countries listed above).


Until monday 13 h !!

http://www.ryanair.com/en/news/ryanair-expects-current-flight-cancellations-to-continue

BGY Closed at least until 14:00 CET

!!RYANAIR EXPECTS CURRENT FLIGHT CANCELLATIONS TO CONTINUE UNTIL AT LEAST 1300HRS MONDAY 19TH APRIL!!

not lookin good for my flight out of leeds to malaga monday night has anyone else been affected? will know by approx 2pm today

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Ryanairflyer wrote:!!RYANAIR EXPECTS CURRENT FLIGHT CANCELLATIONS TO CONTINUE UNTIL AT LEAST 1300HRS MONDAY 19TH APRIL!!

not lookin good for my flight out of leeds to malaga monday night has anyone else been affected? will know by approx 2pm today

It's worse than that. Because the weather is so good right now, it's not expected to clear until at least next Friday, and that's if the volcano stops erupting and also based on weather conditions over the next week or so. So expect this to go on for the foreseeable........

fortunately for myself ..my trip is only pleasure ..must be terrible for those who rely on flying as part of business... I have been looking on the leeds airport site..it seems all are trying to help passengers affected- free parking for passengers whom need to rebook due to the situation.. also looks like ryanair will refund or re schedule tickets for free and the company i have booked my accomodation with are willing to refund monies if i book again after things hopefully get back to normal.
I've always wondered how we would cope with a situation like this seems my wondering may be over... just hope all settles sooner rather than later and more importantly the local citizens in iceland are ok.

Hi, perhaps someone will be able to advise, I'm tearing my hair out here......
My wife and friends are due to fly Alicante - Bristol on Sunday 18th April. This flight is obviously cancelled, but the website is a bit unclear. It says not to travel to the airport, but the customer service dept is not open Saturday and Sunday for advice. Because they have already checked in online prior to departure from Bristol, changes are not possible online.
How do they know what flight they are to return on eventually?
Like all other airlines Ryanair will have to facilitate the accommodation for all stranded passengers, but how do the passengers know where they have to stay? Do they arrange to stay extra night(s) at their present hotel and reclaim from Ryanair?
If anyone could help I'd be grateful.
Oz

Hi

Commiserations to others on this site whose flight plans are affected. Maybe an
incredibly naive suggestion, but for those who are unable to change flight 'cos
already 'checked in' - and given that it seems unlikely that there will be
flights from UK until at least midweek - maybe it is worth faxing Ryanair
immediately and leave your contact telephone.

My own problem (any advice welcome):

I have a Ryanair booking (originally departing today) Liverpool to Spain (Granada)
and returning to Liverpool on Friday (from Malaga).

I changed (for free) today's flight out for tomorrow (Monday), but no flights
to Granada tomorrow, so changed destination to Malaga. I have kept the
original inbound flight on Friday.

It is now likely there will be no flights for next few days. Does anyone know
how I can change Friday's return leg (Malaga to Liverpool)? I imagined I could do
this online as I have not checked in for either flight - but not possible. I guess
that because Ryanair's booking system / database does not link the two flights,
it cannot process the inbound flight change online. I'll try faxing Ryanair but thought
maybe someone here could advise.

I just noticed the update on BBC site:

UK "flight restrictions have been extended until at least 0100 BST on
Monday"

Thank you

our flt shows cancelled and is not due to depart leeds tomorrow at approx 5:20pm... so i am guessing flights leaving the uk will not anytime on Monday.
Like alot say its not likely flights will leave for a good few days and with the pollution heading south covering france and now spain well things will not be getting better soon.

ozzie wrote:Like all other airlines Ryanair will have to facilitate the accommodation for all stranded passengers, but how do the passengers know where they have to stay? Do they arrange to stay extra night(s) at their present hotel and reclaim from Ryanair?
If anyone could help I'd be grateful.
Oz

These are questions that I have ever done.

The law is clear but I do not understand how it is implemented !!

As Ryanair ensure housing in a hotel ?

Anyone can help me understand ?

Thanks in advance for answers.

Prince258

No, Ryanair do not provide accommodation for stranded pax.

neilk2304 wrote:No, Ryanair do not provide accommodation for stranded pax.

The fact that Ryanair does not provide not mean it is not expected.

The European Community Regulation No. 261/2004 provide hotel accommodation in cases
where a stay of one or more nights becomes necessary, or where a stay additional
to that intended by you becomes necessary.

More information at the following link:

http://www.ryanair.com/doc/faqs/EU261_EN.pdf

Prince258