Ryanair summer 2012
Jamie,
I've just checked the web timetable for August and at present it seems that the five based aircraft are pretty well taken care of next summer.
There is a need for five early starts each day* and for five evening returns with one or two possible gaps (* on Wednesdays and Sundays the current timetable shows six early starts).
Having checked the BRS Ryanair timetables in past years this is no surprise. In some years there has been an apparent need for seven based aircraft in early versions of their timetable and in my experience there are invariably several versions before the final one is settled - involving changes of timings, sometimes changes of days and occasionally routes axed and others added.
Currently there will be 109 weekly rotations (two or three down on last summer), including seven Dublin, seven Faro and two Alicante operated by non-based aircraft according to the timings.
Changes from last summer include the axing of Marrakesh, Riga and Seville and the reinstatement of Katowice and Bratislava.
Malta is 4 x weekly (3 last summer), Treviso also 4 x weekly (from 3) whilst Alicante is 6 x weekly (including the two worked by non-based aircraft) which is down from 8 x weekly last summer.
There have been rumours that destinations such as Chania, Rhodes, Corfu, Kos, Murcia, Lodz, Biarritz and Dinard might appear in summer 2012.
It doesn't now look likely unless there is either a major redrawing of the timetable as it currently stands or an additional aircraft is added to the base.