Absolutely agree with the Edinburgh flights, Glasgow at least seems to alternate between early morning and late evening during the week in Summer. Seems like they are happy to hand it to FB on a plate. As the main traffic on the Edinburgh route is BH originating late arrivals there can be a pain as most car hire close shop around 11-11:30 without a stay on surcharge. If they could alternate it like Glasgow that would be good as it gives almost a two day away trip both ways with only one night stay.
I know of at least three people living in the same street as me that were booked on ryanair to edi for the military tatoo. They have all cancelled and rebooked to flybe from SOU little bit dearer but much more time friendly espeically for the older generation. Still i dont think M O cares to much except himself. Push for EASYJET and kick ryanair into touch
Dublin is being reduced to 4 flights per week on Mon, Wed, Fri and Sunday. This is part of a further reduction in services from Dublin, details below are from their news pages...
From July 2009 Ryanair will close four routes from Dublin to Basel, Doncaster, Oporto and Teesside, and reduce frequencies on eight more routes from Dublin to Aberdeen, Biarritz, Billund, Bournemouth, Carcassonne, East Midlands, Malaga and Rome (Ciampino). These cuts will result in one additional based aircraft (five in total) being switched from high cost Dublin Airport to a low cost Ryanair European base in July.
Looks like they are playing around with this route from July having been a daily flight since they started operating this service all those years ago they are cutting 3 flights a week making it a Monday , Wednesday , Friday and Sunday operation this summer
The Irish economy is in serious trouble, so the Irish are travelling less, The Euro is still expensive vs the GB£, so the Brits are travelling less to Euro destinations..
BOH-DUB will get back to daily I'm sure.
This may even be a publicity stunt to press the Dublin airport folks.
I wouldn't be so sure that they will back down on the €10 tax, other governments including the UK have not backed away from it and the Irish government will be bouyed by this fact. Factor in the fact that we are in the early stages of the biggest global recession this side of the 2nd world war and every penny will be a prisoner to the Government.
Yes FR are cutting routes and frequencies from DUB, they will however have not just done a lucky dip when deciding which routes to trim or cut. The routes announced a few weeks ago and today will have been either marginal or operating at a loss, they will definately not have cut routes that were high yield or were cash cows.
I would like to see BOH get another aircraft however the route structure from BOH appears to lean very heavily to the bucket & spade destinations which are fine in summer. What do they do with 2 aircraft in the winter? FR like to chop and change routes on a regular basis but BOH seems to have quite a lot of it. Are they using it to test destinations or are they not able to find the right routes? It is also baffling however that additional aircraft are still being placed in UK where this £10 tax has existed longer.
I wouldn't be so sure that they will back down on the €10 tax, other governments including the UK have not backed away from it and the Irish government will be bouyed by this fact.
The Belgian government back down before their tax was due to be introduced and the Dutch government are considering scrapping their tax. Ryanair are bullying the Irish government into abolishing the tax, and while I'm not for bully boy tactics, as a customer I like the possiblity of this tax getting scrapped.
cutting BOH-DUB to 4 weekly flights from daily will have a beneficial effect on Flybe at SOU. Ryanair are basically handing them market share on a plate if they follow through with this.
I am shocked that they are cutting this route which has been a bread and butter route for them since 1996 on daily (and at some points double daily)
definately sounds like some kind of threat to Dublin, but why habnd over a market to Flybe who will most certainly start the Doncaster to Dublin service, and may even seize the opportunity to increase Southampton frequency
At times I feel that Ryanair cut schedules and set flight times (e.g. EDI) in order to make a route fail to justify cutting it. We have a 17 month old and until now have used the EDI route quite frequently, however, it is now a no-go. The times are very unfriendly for families with young children.
With crap flight times and the draconian baggage measures being proposed, then BE out of SOU is the only viable option for us.
Long haul cruise flights also did well to Barbados , La Romana and Dominican Republic with about 80 % load factor and flights with Palmair using Jet2 averaged about 90 % to the Canary Islands
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