Ryanair must reimburse cancelled UK flight passengers by Friday

It's been a pretty rough few weeks for Ryanair (and their customers), after the airline initially cancelled hundreds of flights due to scheduling issues.

Then, the budget airline cancelled a further 18,000 flights, effecting up to 400,000 passengers.

Now, Ryanair has been ordered by the UK's aviation regulator to provide compensation to those impacted, and soon.

The airline must organise full refunds for the mass cancellations by 5pm today, in a ruling from The Civil Aviation Authority.

The passengers due refunds by today are those who were flying to or from the UK.

The airline is also bound to provide help and information to those impacted by the situation.

'There is still no information here about how expenses will be treated where passengers are re-routed to and/or from other airports or where they otherwise incur additional out-of-pocket expenses as a result of the cancellations,' said the CAA, according to the BBC.

'Further changes are therefore required to make it clear that any such expenses will be reimbursed by Ryanair.'