Ryanair has added extra flights to/from London Stansted, Malaga, and Faro airports on June 29th and June 30th in response to the pilot strikes at Aer Lingus.
The airline clarified that they have not increased fares in response to the strikes, but rather flights have sold out due to increased demand. Extra flights have been added with fares starting at €270 one way to London Stansted, €330 to Malaga, and €340 to Faro.
Ryanair’s Chief Marketing Office Dara Brady said: “we decided last week not to increase air fares in response to the Aer Lingus pilot strikes. As a result, many of our flights next weekend have completely sold out. We are pleased to be able to add these extra flights to London, Malaga and Faro next weekend using one of our spare aircraft. These flights will sell out quickly so we urge all intending passengers whose Aer Lingus flights have been cancelled, to book quickly and early to avail of these very scarce additional seats. In the meantime, we are working closely with Aer Lingus to accept some of their transfer passengers (although we have very limited seat availability) during the school holidays. We are working with Aer Lingus to assist disrupted passengers where we have seat availability, and we have also offered Aer Lingus some wet lease capacity over the coming days, if that will assist them to help disrupted passengers during these regrettable and unnecessary pilot strikes.”
