Ryanair has been forced to make a change for UK passengers flying to Spain and Portugal

Ryanair has launched extra flights for UK tourists and passengers amid pilot strikes. Ryanair added extra flights to its network in response to increased demand following the strikes, with the extra routes taking place over two days.

The budget airline is offering additional tickets to and from London Stansted, Malaga and Faro on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 June. It follows industrial action by IALPA pilots at Aer Lingus, which has resulted in the cancellation of more than 244 flights.

Two additional return flights to and from London Stansted will operate on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 June, the airline has confirmed. It will also add flights on the Malaga and Dublin route on Saturday 29 June and on the Faro and Dublin route on Sunday 30 June.

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Dara Brady, Ryanair’s chief marketing officer, said: “We decided last week not to increase airfares in response to the Aer Lingus pilot strikes. As a result, many of our flights next weekend are completely sold out. We are delighted to be able to add these additional flights to London, Malaga and Faro next weekend using one of our spare aircraft.”

“In the meantime, we are working with Aer Lingus to accept some of their transfer passengers (although we have very limited seat availability) during the school holidays,” she added. “We are working with Aer Lingus to help affected passengers where we have seat availability.

“We have also offered Aer Lingus some wet-hire capacity in the coming days if this will help them to assist passengers disrupted during these unfortunate and unnecessary pilot strikes.” It comes weeks after Ryanair announced its biggest ever Bristol summer 2024 schedule with 36 routes including 6 exciting new routes from Copenhagen, Fuerteventura, Marrakech, Prague, Sofia and Tirana.

Ryanair’s record summer 2024 Bristol schedule is supported by the airline’s 5 aircraft, representing a $500 million investment in Bristol.