Originally Posted by
davidjohnson6
I'm wondering how able Ryanair would be (in theory) to throw lots of aircraft quickly at the Italian market in the form of a land grab, if either a liquidation or significant reduction in capacity of a competitor airline were to happen in late 2017.
Well there would be a lot of air crew seeking new jobs so that is a readily available and "trained" of a sort market place. Though some work practices would clearly need to change in Week 1 or else Week 2 you can go back to sitting on the beach.
Whether they would want to work is another question.
As Ryanair is Italy's largest airline then they are already a well known quantity so would expect that they could readily pick up the majority of the slack within EU easily.
80% of Alitalia's fleet 100 plus aircraft are EI- flagged i.e. Lease Co then would expect some interesting conversations could be occurring
14 A330-200 and 11 777-200 albeit dated aircraft does give someone some options were they to consider flying somewhat longer distances
