Just to complete the trio, not only are today's announcements of Beauvais-Palermo and Beauvais-Wroclaw old news, but Beauvais-Thessaloniki is also old news as well.
We seem to have a press conference at Paris-Orly airport in which Ryanair says it won't be starting any routes (or making any changes at all) at Orly and will not be setting up a base in France but would like to tell everyone about 3 routes at a different airport which were in fact announced long ago. Ryanair having stated very clearly that it would not consider flying from Paris-CDG would like everyone to know it's an interesting idea (often a corporate uphemism in english for 'that is a crazy idea').
So what on earth was the point of the press conference ? We now have someone senior contradicting recently stated corporate plans. Furthermore, after plenty of talk about flying from Amsterdam, Munich and Paris-Orly, all of which seem unlikely to happen in the near future, one might wonder if the new strategy of flying from major airports is actually not going to work. Is Ryanair perhaps realising that the new strategy of using airports near where people want to go is going to be more difficult to implement profitably than MOL had promised shareholders and the press ?
Last edited by davidjohnson6; 21st Jan 2015 at 18:35.