Connecting Flights Trial
The publicised trial of booking protected connecting flights through certain airports (mainly Italian airports and Porto) has now quietly been dropped.
With the ability of Kiwi for one to offer this sort of booking the Mix & Match proposal was weak / useless at best and with Kiwi now as an approved OTA partner perhaps this is the reason / preferred solution.
Adding Dohop into the mix as well would seem to be the most obvious route to get connecting bums on seats as Ryanair get to remain focussed on P2P, pick up no additional overhead or risk and can offer a multitude of connecting opportunities which having a foot in both pools of connection opportunities would seem especially valuable.
The sheer number of connection opportunities with a network the size of Ryanair's must mean that even a low percentage point uplift in overall sales by doing nothing differently for the airline themselves would generate significant extra revenue and allow the "missing" aircraft from the fleet and the reduction in capacity to be mitigated by moving more people to where they need to be albeit through a connection point ?