Ryanair publishes list of cancelled flights - Malta not among them

Low-cost airline Ryanair this morning published a list of flights it will cancel up to the end of october, and Malta is not among them. A spokesman for the Malta Tourism Authority (MTA) said he does not expect any Malta-based routes to be affected. The low-cost airline on Friday announced it would be cancelling up to 50 flights per day for the next six weeks “to improve its system-wide punctuality, which fell below 80 percent in the first two weeks of September”. The airline also admitted, however, that it had “messed up” the planning of its pilots’ holidays, with most of the cancellations reportedly due to a backlog of staff leave.   A Pisa-Malta flight was cancelled on Sunday, leaving passengers fuming.   Replying to questions from Times of Malta, an MTA spokeswoman said that information obtained from Ryanair’s senior management advised that no Maltese routes were known to be affected. “Flights starting their journey from Malta and returning to Malta are not known to be subject to any cancellations at this stage. “The MTA will continue to monitor the situation over the coming days,” the spokeswoman said.  Ryanair last night published the full list of flight cancellation...