0001191638-11-000685.txt : 20110525 0001191638-11-000685.hdr.sgml : 20110525 20110525071503 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001191638-11-000685 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 6-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20110525 FILED AS OF DATE: 20110525 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20110525 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: RYANAIR HOLDINGS PLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001038683 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: AIR TRANSPORTATION, SCHEDULED [4512] IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FISCAL YEAR END: 0331 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 6-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-29304 FILM NUMBER: 11869547 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O RYANAIR LTD CORPORATE HEAD OFFICE STREET 2: DUBLIN AIRPORT CITY: COUNTY DUBLIN IRELAN STATE: L2 BUSINESS PHONE: 3538444440 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: CT CORPORATION SYSTEM STREET 2: 1633 BROADWAY CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10019 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: RYANAIR HOLDINGS LTD DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19970506 6-K 1 rya201105256k.htm UK ADMITS ASH RED ZONE "IN THE WRONG PLACE" rya201105256k.htm
 
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 May, 2011

 
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)



 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual
reports under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.



Form 20-F..X.. Form 40-F.....



 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information
contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the
Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934.

 
 
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If "Yes" is marked, indicate below the file number assigned to the registrant
in connection with Rule 12g3-2(b): 82- ________




 

 
 
 

UK ADMITS ASH RED ZONE
"IN THE WRONG PLACE"
 
 
 
The UK VAAC (Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre) today (25th May) confirmed what everybody already knows; that the UK Met Office charts which have caused unnecessary flight cancellations for tens of thousands of passengers are wrong.
 
Contributing to the Eurocontrol 8:00 a.m. (CET) conference call, the UKVAAC representative admitted the "red zone" shown in the UK Met Office charts is "in the wrong place".   This so called "red zone" caused the closure of German airspace to hundreds of flights.    This admission comes too late for the thousands of passengers whose flights have already been cancelled.
 
The UK official refused airline requests to immediately amend the misleading charts despite the unnecessary chaos which continues to be caused by this misinformation.  This scandalous bureaucracy means that unnecessarily cancelled flights cannot be reinstated in sufficient time to contact passengers who have already been advised of cancellations.
 
Ryanair again calls on the CAA to accept that these UK predictions are simply works of fiction, as proven by two Ryanair and one BA flight through supposed "red zones" which encountered no volcanic ash whatsoever during flight and post flight inspections.
 
 
 
ends.


 
 
 


 
 
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.



 
 
RYANAIR HOLDINGS PLC
 
 
 
Date: 25 May 2011
 
 
By:___/s/ Juliusz Komorek____
   
 
Juliusz Komorek
 
Company Secretary