Update on Ryanair on Dutch market: AMS base not before 2016
Kenny Jacobs has given an update on Ryanair's plan for the Dutch market.
A short summary:
- Ryanair has a 4% marketshare in the Netherlands, they want to significantly increase that
- Jacobs: "One scenario could be that we start flying business routes from Schiphol and leisure routes from Lelystad (Lelystad will not open for 737s before 2018). Examples given by Jacobs for routes from AMS: Dublin, London and Eastern Europe.
- MOL yesterday: "Schiphol is one of the airports that we're in talks with, but we can't say that we've made much progress"
- Jacobs: Schiphol base not before 2016. Negotiations are (of course) about the fees and the 25 min turnaround. FR wants to use Schiphol's low cost H/M pier. Slots for those gates are very limited with Easyjet's base starting in a few months.
- Jacobs: Eindhoven Airport will stay very important for us and wil get a third based 737 this summer. Destinations from EIN up to 36 this summer with 'new' routes to LIS, MAN, MAD, TFS en TRN (flown already but first time summer routes). Route to Knock will be cancelled. Increased freq. on EIN-STN, EIN-KRK and EIN-WMI.