Ryanair compensation cheques with no signatures 'bounced'

Ryanair passengers who have received compensation for cancelled and delayed flights have been charged extra fees after banks rejected the cheques. Several people said their bank had returned cheques they had received from the airline because they were unsigned. One passenger, who waited 11 months for compensation, said she was now worse off after the bank added a fee of E20. Ryanair has apologised and blamed the problem on an "administrative error". Since April, more than one million Ryanair passengers in Europe have had delayed or cancelled flights, according to the airline's own figures. The latest one-day pilots' walk-out on 10 August led to the cancellation of nearly 400 flights. The Civil Aviation Authority recently stepped in to advise passengers caught up in strikes that they should apply for compensation. <br/>