Interesting post, eu01.
Ryanair route planning and scheduling puzzles me to some extent. For example, take the London to Alicante market. In summer 2008 over a dozen easyJet flights in each direction are scheduled on peak days, not to mention BA, Monarch etc. And what's Ryanair's response? One daily rotation plus, more recently, a second flight on certain days of the week. London is conspicuously absent from Ryanair's list of destinations from Madrid: this is a very busy route but instead Ryanair has chosen to fly some much thinner ones. Is there anyone out there who can make sense of this?