Passengers travelling through Manchester Airport faced major disruption on Thursday, October 8, 2026, as two Ryanair flights were cancelled and several other services were delayed. According to the flight-tracking website Avionio, Ryanair flight FR4927 to Paphos, Cyprus, scheduled to depart at 5:50 a.m., and flight FR6983 to Genoa, Italy, due to leave at 6:10 a.m., were both listed as cancelled.
However, tracking data presented some uncertainty regarding the full scale of the disruption due to varying figures. There were also other flights that had their departure times revised in the early hours.
For example, the TUI flight to Malaga, whose initial departure time was 6:00 a.m., was revised to 6:25 a.m., and the airline's Dubrovnik flight, scheduled to depart at 6:05 a.m., departed at about 6:44 a.m. Moreover, Jet2's 6:05 a.m. flight to Ibiza departed at 6:30 a.m., and Brussels Airlines' flight to Brussels was delayed by about 25 minutes.
Other affected services included Ryanair flights to Dublin and Pisa, and KLM's flight to Amsterdam. Some flights eventually took off earlier than the new departure times, meaning the delay varied depending on individual passengers' schedules.
The exact cause of the cancellations and delays has not yet been established. This follows earlier reports from Monday, October 5, which noted delays of up to an hour for Manchester Airport departures.
It remains unclear if there is any connection between the two days' events. Travellers departing from Manchester Airport are strongly advised to confirm their flight status with their respective airlines before heading to the airport, as schedules remain subject to change.