Ryanair has announced further cuts to its flight schedules to and from Italy, and within Italy, with immediate effect.
It is in response to the Italian Government's decision over the weekend to "lock down" regions of Northern Italy.
From midnight tonight, Ryanair will suspend all Italian domestic flights to and from Bergamo, Malpensa, Parma and Treviso, until midnight on April 8.
From midnight on Thursday, March 12, Ryanair will run a severely reduced schedule of international flight to and from Bergamo, Malpensa, Venice, Parma, Rimini and Treviso, which will only operate on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays. The airline said any routes with multi daily frequencies will be restricted to one flight per day during each of these four days.
Ryanair says inbound traffic to Northern Italy has suffered large numbers of "no shows" over the past week, and there are many thousands of non-Italian visitors currently in the Lombardy and other affected regions who are scheduled to return home. The airline said it must continue to run this restricted 4 day week schedule to and from Northern Italy to repatriate these non-Italian citizens.
It said it continues to comply fully with WHO and national Government guidance and travel bans. In a statement, the airline said, "The situation is changing on a daily basis, and all passengers on flights affected by travel bans or cancellations, are receiving emails and are being offered flight transfers, full refunds or travel credits."
"Ryanair apologises sincerely to all customers for these schedule disruptions, which are caused by national Government restrictions on travel in response to the Italian Government lock down of all but essential travel to and from Northern Italy, " it said.
All affected passengers have received email notices today (Monday, March 9) of these flight cancellations/changes. If passengers have not received an email, then they can expect their flights to operate as originally scheduled.
