Ryanair - a new low?

There's a similar discussion on askaboutmoney regarding changes in flight times (and lack of notifications).

What's the compensation for that? 250 euro per seat?

Check it here: https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/travel-and-recreation/air-travel/compensation-for-overbooked-and-delayed-flights/

I noticed this summer that Ryanair seem to be using a Lanzarote based plane for most of the week for morning flights. Didn’t trust them to do the full week so booked ei instead. We prefer the early out and lunchtime flight back which ei do. The late flight back can be a nightmare with younger kids as can be tired and get cranky.

Hopefully you’ll get sorted

Similar thing here too. Booked flights to Carcassonne for a ten day trip in July. Got a good deal in the Black Friday sale. Family of 5 with luggage for less than €1000. Times were handy. Flying out at 2pm. Get email a week later to day flight has been moved to 6am the next morning. Accepted the switch as there was nothing else in the window of availability worth switching to. And I hadn’t booked the accommodation yet. But it’s an annoyance as I’m losing a day of holidays and the travel day will be a bit of a write off now too as we will be wrecked from the much earlier flight.

I've found Ryanair helpdesk quite helpful when you want something that isn't unfair to ask for so I'd ring them and state you booked an afternoon flight and should be on the afternoon flight. Hopefully the human will understand when the computer is only dealing with your orig flight number

I've known ppl whose flight was moved to the following day which didn't suit, ring up and get it changed to say 2 days beforehand. They don't want you cancelling.

2. Change your flight for free• You can choose to change your flight to the next available flight on the same route or to a flight departing one day before or one day after your new departure time. There are no flight change fees and you do not have to pay any fare difference.

This was for another flight that had a schedule change. Did you read the schedule change email?

EDIT: you can't get compensation if you get more than 2 weeks notice.

You can claim extra money if they cancel or reroute you.

I think 250 euro per seat in this case, so if it's a family of 4 that's €1000 euro into your pocket just to fly later in the day.

I had a United flight to the US move me from 11am to 4pm flight and I was able to claim €700.

Ryanair changed my flight times and they don't suit me | Askaboutmoney.com - the Irish consumer forum

Ryanair are doing this all over the place.....and getting away with it.

Interesting. Even if it's months in advance?

Yeah I'd have thought it would be something like that.

It seems to be sharp practice though, people don't just book flights but hotels, attractions, trains, connecting flights, concert tickets, golf etc.

Now that I think of it my last trip and my next 2 trips have been chopped around by Ryanair.

Even if it's months in advance I'd say it's more than a coincidence at this point.

If the change notification is more than two weeks out then would incurring such an additional cost by changing back to your original time be something that's covered by travel insurance?

Maybe op should just speak with Ryanair? See what they say about moving then for free to the other flight.

Then everyone can complain and come up with different scenarios. 😁😁

The issue is lack of aircraft.

Boeing are months behind on aircraft delivery and it's causing airlines, especially Ryanair, to cut capacity on summer routes.

Boeing delays got worse in the final quarter of last year and the latest issue with max 9 will not help.

Ryanair built their schedule around expected delivery of aircraft and that has now changed