Ryanair Postpone Opening Of Edinburgh Base

Thursday 11th September 2008

Low fares airline Ryanair have announced that they have been forced to postpone their opening of a new Edinburgh base after some Boeing workers went on strike.

The strike has meant that Ryanair have been forced to postpone the opening by six weeks from an original date of the 23rd of September to the 5th of November. The reason for this is due to the strike preventing the delivery of new aircraft to the airline that they were to use on the new Edinburgh routes.

Speaking about the strike action was Ryanair Deputy Chief Executive Michael Cawley who stated;

"We sincerely regret the postponement of the opening of our Edinburgh base but unfortunately the two new aircraft, which we had reserved for this purpose, are now indefinitely delayed due to a strike by Boeing employees. However, due to increased aircraft availably in our fleet from early November we will be able to operate these exciting new Edinburgh routes from 5^th November."

Passengers who were booked to travel on our new routes during this initial six week period will be refunded over the next seven days. We sincerely apologise to all our passengers for the inconvenience caused by this forced change to our schedule. However, we look forward to seeing our Edinburgh passengers on board our state of the art aircraft from 5^th November." 

The new routes that are affected by the strikes are from Edinburgh to Lodz, Malaga, Bournemouth, Palma, Krakow, Poznan, Bratislava, Schonefeld, Billund, Skavsta, Wroclaw