Ryanair has warned those travelling to and from the UK today (October 18). The low-cost airline has shared a travel update from its website due to weather conditions.
According to its website, heavy fog could cause “potential disruptions.” The Met Office has also issued a weather warning for those living in the East Midlands, East of England, London and South East, South West England, and West Midlands.
Those travelling today have been advised to check travel conditions before leaving home and allow extra journey time.
“Affected passengers will be notified, and any passengers travelling to/from the UK on Friday, October 18, should check their Ryanair app for the latest updates on their flight“, according to the airline’s website.
Ryanair continued: “We regret any inconvenience caused to passengers by these weather conditions, which are outside of Ryanair’s control and affect all airlines operating to/from the UK on Friday, October 18.”
However, this isn’t the only travel delay from Ryanair. The ongoing staff shortages across Europe are due to repeated air traffic control (ATC) disruptions.
The airline has apologised to its customers, which is affecting all European airlines. According to Ryanair: “ATC services, which have had the benefit of no French ATC strike disruption this summer, continue to underperform (despite flight volumes being five percent behind 2019 levels) with repeated ‘staff shortages’.”
On Friday, October 18, Ryanair’s first wave departures were again delayed due to ATC “staff shortages”. These repeated flight delays due to ATC mismanagement are unacceptable.
“We apologise to our passengers for these repeated ATC flight delays which are deeply regrettable but beyond Ryanair’s control. We encourage passengers to visit atcruinedourholiday.com and demand that the EU Commission take urgent action to improve Europe’s ATC system.”
Since last year, there have been several days of ATC strikes, making airlines cancel thousands of EU overflights.
Ryanair said: “These French ATC strikes have delayed/cancelled the flights of over 1.2 million airline passengers.”
