Ryanair delay Edinburgh routes over Boeing strike
10.09.08
Ryanair has cancellrd flights from its new Edinburgh Airport base for 6 weeks because of strike action at US planemaker Boeing. The budget airline said the strike meant Boeing was unable to deliver two 737 planes it purchased to operate on the new routes.
Passengers booked to fly from Edinburgh on 11 new routes will be given a refund. Ryanair said it now hoped to start flying from Edinburgh on November 5.
Deputy chief executive, Michael Cawley, expressed his ‘sincere regret’ at the postponement to the opening of the new base. He said: ‘Unfortunately the 2 aircraft, which we had reserved for this purpose, are now indefinitely delayed due to a strike by Boeing employees.'
‘However, due to increased aircraft available in our fleet from early November [the budget airline is grounding planes at Stansted and Dublin this winter], we will be able to operate these exciting new Edinburgh routes from November 5.’
Eleven routes from Edinburgh Airport are affected: flights to Lodz, Malaga, Bournemouth, Palma, Krakow, Poznan, Bratislava, Schonefeld, Billund, Skavsta and Wroclaw.
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