{"id":266768,"date":"2026-01-04T13:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/266768\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T13:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:07:08","slug":"ryanair-passengers-face-delays-after-italys-bergamo-airport-halts-flights-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/266768\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair passengers face delays after Italy\u2019s Bergamo airport halts flights \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/italy\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/italy\/\">Italian<\/a> airport \u200bof Bergamo Orio-al-Serio, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ryanair\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ryanair\/\">Ryanair<\/a> hub for flights to Milan, halted \u200dflights on Saturday evening due to technical issues with the landing \u200dguidance system and poor visibility, leaving thousands stranded overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">SACBO, the company that operates the airport, said in \u200ca statement the technical problem was solved around midnight, but a \u2060warning on the airport\u2019s website said \u201cflights may \u200cbe \u200bdelayed or \u200dcancelled\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident led to the cancellation of 26 departing flights with 6 diverted to other airports and 7 \u2060rescheduled for Sunday, local media said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Thousands spent the \u2060night at the airport, with \u2060images showing people sleeping on the floor and baggage check-in belts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Bergamo \u200donline edition of Corriere della Sera daily said the first flights were halted at around 1700 (Irish time) on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Real time information about flights on the airport\u2019s website showed a long list of mostly \u200cRyanair flights delayed, \u200cthough several had departed on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A 0605 Ryanair flight to Cagliari \u200cdelayed to 0850 was showing as \u2018departed\u2019 as was a \u20600620 Neos flight to Sharm-el-Sheikh which had been delayed to 0855. &#8211; Reuters <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2025\/12\/13\/ryanair-chief-michael-oleary-plans-to-hand-over-to-nicer-successor-by-2035\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryanair chief Michael O\u2019Leary plans to hand over to \u2018nicer\u2019 successor by 2035Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Italian airport \u200bof Bergamo Orio-al-Serio, a Ryanair hub for flights to Milan, halted \u200dflights on Saturday evening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,371,623],"class_list":{"0":"post-266768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-italy","13":"tag-ryanair"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}