Ryanair will add in excess of another one million seats to its 2022/23 winter schedule in an effort to capitalise on British Airways’ decision to cut more than 10,000 winter flights at Heathrow.
BA announced the cuts on Monday (22 August), which will predominantly affect short-haul flights to and from Heathrow between late October and March. Ryanair claimed the cuts amounted to around 8% of BA’s total planned schedule at Heathrow this winter.
Flag carrier BA said the move followed Heathrow’s decision to extend its current 100,000-passenger a day capacity cap until 29 October.
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Ryanair will add in excess of another one million seats to its 2022/23 winter schedule in an effort to capitalise on British Airways’ decision to cut more than 10,000 winter flights at Heathrow.
BA announced the cuts on Monday (22 August), which will predominantly affect short-haul flights to and from Heathrow between late October and March. Ryanair claimed the cuts amounted to around 8% of BA’s total planned schedule at Heathrow this winter.
Flag carrier BA said the move followed Heathrow’s decision to extend its current 100,000-passenger a day capacity cap until 29 October.
Ryanair said its additional capacity would span flights to and from 20 UK airports and will see its full-year traffic grow from a targeted 165 million passengers to more than 166.5 million.
The budget carrier highlighted city break and winter sun fares to Spain, Italy, Portugal, Morocco, Greece and France being a particular focus.
Ryanair chief Michael O’Leary said the airline would operate its largest-ever winter schedule as a result. "UK families can book with confidence that they will get to their low-fare city break and winter sun getaways without the risk of flight cancellations," he added.
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