Dublin/Berlin — Ryanair cancelled the flights of another 400,000 customers and scrapped a bid for Alitalia on Wednesday, in a plan to keep its pilots on side and draw a line under its rostering fiasco. The new cancellations drew a swift rebuke from Britain’s aviation regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), which said it had launched enforcement action against Ryanair for "persistently misleading passengers with inaccurate information" about their rights. Just last week Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary had said no more flights would be cancelled due to pilot rostering issues that caused the grounding of more than 2,000 flights in September and October, hitting the airline’s share price and reputation. But on Wednesday the airline, Europe’s largest by passenger numbers, said it would cancel flights for about 400,000 passengers in addition to 300,000 affected by earlier cancellations. In a statement to customers, pilots and shareholders, Ryanair said the move would minimise flight d...
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