Ryanair

I have a Ryanair booking for 2nd April. I received the following from Ryanair

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Dear Customer,

Over the past week, the spread of the Covid-19 Virus and associated Government travel restrictions, many of which have been imposed without notice, have had a significant and negative impact on the schedules of all Ryanair Group Airlines.

Ryanair expects the result of these restrictions will be the grounding of most of its aircraft fleet across Europe over the next 7 to 10 days. Because of this we want to offer our customers as much flexibility as possible in relation to their scheduled travel plans. We are now offering you the following options in relation to your booked flight.

· You can now move your flight free of charge to a date in the future.
· The flight change fee will be waived in full.
· You will only have to pay the difference in fare.
· This flight date change will only apply to the route you have already booked.
· Please do not try to change to another date in April.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this unprecedented crisis. The safety and well-being of our people and customers is our main priority, and we are working closely with the state authorities and we will follow any travel restrictions that are imposed and will continue to comply with all WHO and EASA guidelines to combat the Covid-19 Virus.

To change your travel date, click on My Bookings below.

Best regards,
Customer Service

Sit tight and wait a few hours.

If my understanding is correct, the airlines and most likely insurance companies too, have been meeting with the government today to discuss procedures for refunds etc. To me, it seems like they\'ve all been stalling over everything, until they discover what support they will be getting. 

If there is no support, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see some, even household names, to go directly into bankruptcy, as many I bet can't afford to refund months and months of cancelled flights. 

I'm expecting to see some sort of joined-up deal with the government, insurance companies (travel insurance) and the airlines themselves covering the cost.

I think something is going to be announced later today.

Thanks for that Kelvin problem is we don’t want date change we want refund we have booked flights every month till September.personally I think this will go on till winter have to see Thanks.

People in Ireland got the same message. 

Check the bit on their statement where it says they have "cash and cash equivalents of €4bn" I wouldn't start feeling too sorry for them just yet.. they will only refund people if the government bans all flights to spain, we got refunded within 5 days of all flights to Italy being cancelled 

I think we have all received this and when you go to book a future date they have doubled in price!!!!!!.  We had a trip to Seville booked for 15-18 March and got no refund!!!!!  Also Ryanair is an Irish Company not part of UK

Hi all,scheduled fly home Saturday Ryanair. (Alicante to Luton)

Stated on their website flights 21-28th cancelled.Although haven't received text/email.