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Old 8th Dec 2011, 14:48
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Apropos closeness/convenience; Eindhoven is one of the best, imo, low cost bus every 20 mins gets you to the station in 20 mins. The station has connections all over. Easy-peasy connections to A'dam and Maastricht/Aachen for ex.

Cannot be said for all FR destinations, I know.

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Old 8th Dec 2011, 14:53
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1 NEW ROUTE FROM EAST MIDLANDS
  1. La Rochelle
Another new route has been announced by the airdb.com website from Billund to Tallinn but not confirmed by RYANAIR
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Old 8th Dec 2011, 15:30
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FR - Bristol

Any one heard anything about FR expanding their Croatia routes from BRS? Would love to see a PUY or ZAD flight!
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Old 8th Dec 2011, 18:41
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Ryanair to raise peak baggage fees - RT News
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A few days ago was in STN and got talking to one on the ground handlers and was told the FR profits on route from LPA,TFS,ACE and FUE have taken a hit and there has being a general reduction on flights for all 4 airports next summer. As a matter of interest what are the busiest International flights from the 4 airports in the summer months of July and August, I know it varies other months of the year. He also said he expects further cuts from STN next year.

In time will this not happon to the Greek, Cyprus routes as they will do well now as they are new to FR.
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Old 8th Dec 2011, 19:22
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A few days ago was in STN and got talking to one on the ground handlers and was told the FR profits on route from LPA,TFS,ACE and FUE have taken a hit
I would expect a baggage handler to be an excellent source of info on load factors, but I'm not sure how much he would really know on yields.

As it happens though, he may well be right, it is a simple question of distance. Most passengers might not be accountants, but they can do a simple cost benefit equation - if they can reach a sunny destination on the Spanish costas for £50, but the Canaries are £100, they won't go.

Now the sun may be better in the Canaries in the winter, but I think people still have certain expectations of the kind of cheap fares they think locos, and particularly Ryanair should deliver.

Ditto for Cyprus, slightly less so for Greece.
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Old 8th Dec 2011, 19:26
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Would say they have with the cost of fuel, one thing is for sure there fares from Dublin last summer make Aer Lingus look like the low cost carrier.

As for the UK compitation could also be a factor.
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Old 8th Dec 2011, 21:51
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Murcia flights back on sale. As for Canaries routes

As a matter of interest what are the busiest International flights from the 4 airports in the summer months of July and August, I
Not certain but Dublin and London STN would have the most flights with the bussiest at that time of year being Glasgow PIK and London STN from TFS daily and Dublin from ACE daily.
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Ryanair to raise peak baggage fees - RT News
Goodwill is lost every time Ryanair sting pax with £60 charge for boarding card or a fortune for another bag.

We see PAX spending more on basic fare to avoid ryanair. In November most other airlines have been adding Pax at Ryanair's expense. BA, Easyjet etc can run normal program of flights.
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Old 9th Dec 2011, 08:33
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I think Aer Lingus will be very happy about this in Dublin.... having used both Ryanair and aer Lingus a huge amount (approx 20 times) each year for the last 6 years I'm booking Aer Lingus a lot more now than a couple of years ago.Its not only the price has narrowed a lot but the inflight comfort too.Ryanair are still a great airline from Dublin with a super route network but Aer Lingus are catching up fast....
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HUY-ALC days and times removed from the timetable though still available in the drop down menu. A victim of the dispute or could they be changing days/frequency?
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HUY-ALC days and times removed from the timetable though still available in the drop down menu.
Oh dear! The route from Liverpool to Tampere ended long time ago, in March' 2007, but still is available in the (secondary) drop down menu (SkySales). So what? Just a nuisance, as you keep getting the information:
Going Out From Liverpool - Tampere
Sorry, there are no available flights departing on the 15 May - 21 May
This may be because:
The flight you have chosen is full
The route selected has not yet commenced operation
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It's Ryanair style, so to say.

Goodwill is lost every time Ryanair sting pax with £60 charge for boarding card or a fortune for another bag.
We see PAX spending more on basic fare to avoid ryanair. In November most other airlines have been adding Pax at Ryanair's expense. BA, Easyjet etc can run normal program of flights.
I think Ryanair has lost momentum a while ago. I used to be very optimistic about them. Not a poor person myself, I like the idea people travelling very inexpensively across Europe. Great idea put into effect by them and it worked very well. But let me tell... an exaggeration is not a good thing either. Screwing costs into the ground - fine! That's all? Something has been forgotten here. It cannot be the only measure of success, it's not enough. Some basic kindness towards the customers and partners is just a precondition, some comfort as well. These numerous PR-stunts, these continuous prevarications and conceitedness, this ill-mannered publicity, hidden costs, now the Captcha-nonsense, everything matters! These baggage fees... okay, I don't care. Recently I flown with Air France to Portugal, could have taken 46 kg baggage for free and took just a hand baggage, don't need more, but for most pax it's important to bring some presents, that will influence their choices too.

Quo vadis Ryanair, where are you going? Still do not realize anything? People keep flying as long as you are cheap. You wanted pax to make their choices only based on prices. As we've noticed, the prices keep rising. What do you offer instead... further cuts?
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Old 9th Dec 2011, 16:51
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Goodwill is lost every time Ryanair sting pax with £60 charge for boarding card or a fortune for another bag.

We see PAX spending more on basic fare to avoid ryanair. In November most other airlines have been adding Pax at Ryanair's expense. BA, Easyjet etc can run normal program of flights.
Right and could you provide some detail regarding this "WE" ..................just some research done by a number of legitimate agencies rather than the old record which you play every month.

Or is this just another of your wet dreams put into print.
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Old 9th Dec 2011, 18:08
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It's hardly a selling point is it?
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Old 9th Dec 2011, 20:09
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Was announced today that Ryanair would reduce Riga flights by 20% and not the planned 30%.
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Old 9th Dec 2011, 21:37
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KUN to lose Paris BVA to VNO and Gothenburg dropped from end of March.
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Old 10th Dec 2011, 07:43
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KUN to lose Paris BVA to VNO
That's interesting. VNO to BVA is already in Wizzair's schedule. While Wizz has its base in VNO, FR has neither in VNO nor in BVA and in spite of that they bother to switch to VNO. KUN/BVA and VNO/BVA would have been complementary, now it turns to become a head to head competition. Big boys want to wage war again? I think Wizz is not the easiest target and may prove to be a winner too (as happened e.g. on NYO to GDN route).
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Old 10th Dec 2011, 08:06
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So KUN is becoming a base for W flights for RYR? They're building a station there, have an hangar, so kinda just quitting KUN does not seem viable.

But it's hard to understand RYR strategy for the KUN base now...
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Old 10th Dec 2011, 08:56
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A good comment on RYR strategy gives The Independent today: Ryanair's new fees: £1 for your ticket, £5 for your sandwich – £100 for your bag.
By the way: these £1 ticket prices are not achievable any more, it seems. Good! What a high quality service will be introduced in return for all these price rises? Is it New Free Online Puzzle Game reCAPTCHA Security Check? Cool, pax will be extremely satisfied, I'm sure.
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Old 10th Dec 2011, 14:50
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Can Ryanair see the % of traffic to its website ?
Can Ryanair see how many leave the site without booking ?
Can Ryanair see how many leave without booking after one attempt or two or three attempts and before and after "CAPTCHA".

I know of three groups of friends, 14 in total that have booked with Easyjet after leaving the Ryanair website, sick of "CAPTCHA".

I myself have lost all love for Ryanair and have booked ACE with Easyjet from LGW even though it adds an hour to the drive and even though the flight times are not as good with Easyjet.

You cant tell me that Ryanair has not seen a massive fall in booking since CAPTCHA was added to the site, everyone I talk to seems to be looking at EZY, BA, MON ect so I wonder how many people out there are doing the same, It must be hurting Ryanair's pockets or it will soon, it has to be.
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