Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 3:39pm
If you still have refunds outstanding, I suggest you chase Ryanair. I had several outstanding and they're all now paid up until the last ones I had which were for flights in July. A relative received her refund last week for flights in mid-August that had been cancelled in June.
I had to chase a couple and that did involve 30 mins on hold to get through, but then they were paid out within about 3 weeks of the phone call.
All the airlines are rationalising their flight volumes, so that they're trying to fly fewer flights but with fuller planes. The last couple of flights I took were 30%-50% full, which is nice from a passenger persepective but uneconomic for the airlines. Globally, flights are still down by an average of 70% (although, interestingly, China is now almost back to normal - internal flights mostly).
Many flights are arriving early as they can load fewer passengers and luggage more quickly; and they are also flying with less in flight diversions, as there's a lot less aircraft in the skies!