DomyDom
Unfortunately, Biarritz is not set to return to Manchester for 2013.
This technique below that I have found to work very well over several years is nearly always correct, last mentioned on post 325 on this thread. It shows that Ryanair are not considering to restart the route next year.
Very strangely Ryanair's booking system seems to have some
sort of glitch which I've found to indicate what routes may or may not operate
in the next schedule season before anything goes on sale. If you select a flight
route inthe next and currently unavailable schedule season (in this case "summer
2013") it will obviously show no available flights. Despite knowing this, try it
anyway and make sure you select the return date to be exactly 1 week after the
departure date but with flexible travel dates (just to make what I'm about to
say easier to see).
If the selected departure date
(highlighted in yellow) is not centralised so is basically not showing 3
alternative dates to either side but instead 6 alternative dates after and isn't
actually the specific date you selected but instead 3 days before coming back,
but the return flight is centralised (with 3 alternative dates toeither side of
the selected date) then this simply means there is no flights available. Don't
ask me why its like that, I have no idea, but it is.
If however BOTH the departure and return
flights ARE centralised (with both showing 3 alternative dates either side of
the selected date) and the departure date IS now the exact date you selected
then this seems to indicate that Ryanair are planning to operate this route at
least once at some point within that time.
For some routes, it can change and isn't 100% accurate but is
correct the vast majority of the time and becomes more accurate the closer you
get to flights being released for booking, however as we know it can still
change after this point, especially with Ryanair as they are well known for
cancelling routes or starting new ones at short notice! Of course you can't see
what new routes are being planned since you cannot yet select them in the
booking system.
People will probably think I'm just talking complete rubbish
however I noticed it several years ago and have become certain that it is to do
with what Ryanair are planning to operate and what not to, and I'd say that
"planning" is the operative word there!