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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
Report of Foreign Private Issuer
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For the
month of July
2018
RYANAIR HOLDINGS PLC
(Translation
of registrant's name into English)
c/o Ryanair Ltd Corporate Head Office
Dublin
Airport
County Dublin Ireland
(Address
of principal executive offices)
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RYANAIR TO CUT DUBLIN BASED FLEET BY 20% FROM 30 TO 24 FOR WINTER
2018
90 DAY PROTECTIVE NOTICE ISSUED TO OVER 100 DUBLIN BASED PILOT
& 200 CABIN CREW EMPLOYEES
AT LEAST 6 DUBLIN AIRCRAFT SWITCH TO GROWING POLISH CHARTER
AIRLINE
Ryanair's Board today (25 July) approved a plan to cut its Dublin
based fleet from 30 to (at most) 24 aircraft for the winter 2018
season. These reductions have been driven by the rapid growth of
Ryanair's Polish charter airline, which is growing profitably in
2018, allied to a down turn in forward bookings and airfares in
Ireland partly as a result of recent rolling strikes by Irish
pilots, which has had a negative effect on (close-in) high fare
bookings and forward air fares as consumer confidence in the
reliability of our Irish flight schedules has been
disturbed.
Ryanair's Polish airline, Ryanair Sun, will now offer over 10
aircraft to Polish tour operators, more than double the 5 aircraft
offered in Summer 2018. We expect few route closures from Dublin,
although some routes may suffer frequency reductions.
In the light of these Dublin base cuts, Ryanair has today issued
letters of (90 days) protective notice to over 100 pilots and over
200 cabin crew employees, whose services may not be required from
28 Oct onwards, due to this 20% reduction in the Dublin fleet this
winter.
Ryanair will now begin the consultations with its people on
redundancy, which, if redundancies are necessary, will be
determined by Ryanair's assessment of flight performance,
productivity, attendances, and base transfer requests. Ryanair will
be offering transfers to Poland (and possibly some other bases) to
these Dublin based pilots and cabin crew employees for Winter 2018
in order to minimise any redundancies.
Ryanair's COO Peter Bellew said:
"We regret these base aircraft reductions at Dublin for Winter
2018, but the Board has decided to allocate more aircraft to those
markets where we are enjoying strong growth (such as Poland), and
this will result in some aircraft reductions and job cuts in
country markets where business has weakened, or forward bookings
are being damaged by rolling strikes by Irish pilots. Ryanair
operates a fleet of over 450 aircraft from 87 bases across Europe.
We can only do so if we continue to offer low fares, reliable
flight services to our customers, and if our reputation for
reliability or forward bookings is affected, then base and
potential job cuts such as these at Dublin are a deeply regretted
consequence".
Editor's Note: Ryanair has invited Forsa and its Pilots Committee
to a meeting this afternoon to brief them on these planned base
cuts and job losses.
ENDS
For further information
please contact:
Robin Kiely
Piaras Kelly
Ryanair DAC
Edelman Ireland
Tel: +353-1-9451949
Tel: +353-1-6789333
press@ryanair.com
ryanair@edelman.com
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf
by the undersigned, hereunto duly authorized.
Date: 25
July, 2018
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By:___/s/
Juliusz Komorek____
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Juliusz
Komorek
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Company
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