Ryanair had for many years been able to fly at very low cost over the winter and make small profits on many routes all year.
Nope there were many routes loss making during winter but thats why you have reduced services
higher costs means that filling planes at very low seat prices makes a loss in winter. Ryanair is losing a lot of the off peak traffic that made the buisness model work so well 5 years ago. He has also lost the ablity to buy planes for so much less than he could sell them for after a few years. The owned planes could suffer a big write down in value on sale. The alternative is for him to fly an aging fleet. Others like Easyjet could then get the next generation of planes and overtake MOL.
Which low seat prices is this ? The ones where they have increased since last year ?
As for U2 overtaking FR ..............with what exactly ?
FR is still buying planes cheaply with 64 due in 11 and 12 and options up to 2014 for up to 173 more.
You keep coming on here with idle speculation with not a single bit of fact and then make something up for the next time when asked for detail.