Ryanair - 6

[Skipness One Echo]

I can't believe racedo is asking what someone ELSE's agenda is !

[PeterPaul]

racedo
So who are the people behind it and what is their vested interest ?

A good question. But,

What is the "vested interest " in the part of the one raising the question?
and
"who are the people behind " the one asking?

If one has to take the possibility of eventual interests, why not ask the same question to you? You have been consistent to your views.

It is dangerous approach. Do not ask others, or you will have to answer first.

[racedo]

I can't believe racedo is asking what someone ELSE's agenda is !

Here we go again going after the poster.

I note you have not posted anything on the blog content.

1.) Website keeps going on about "WE" but doesn't seem to give anything more than the person punting it.

2.) Its a blog and a pretty poor one at that as even you have produced better material.

[Dominic Nortney]

Why people are complaining about subsidising other peoples seats, and moaning about extra charges I dont know.

That is what Ryanair does! You pay a bare minimum for tickets and they claw it back on extras onboard the aicraft. Other charges such as the check-in charge and baggage charge are included in this but they are all optional. Ryanair don't force you to check-in they actually encourage you to check-in online because it saves them money (and you).

If they were to charge extra for flights they wouldn't be the cheapest. O-Leary has gone as far to say that eventually Ryanair may be able to let people obtain a ticket for free and they will still make revenues for passengers.

[LPFR]

Looks like the new routes are confirmed in their website as it's already in the route map and for booking No official announcement though.

Bournemouth to:

Faro
Limoges
Reus

Reus to:

Bournemouth
Eindhoven
Nador
Poznan

Bremen to:

Faro

London (Luton) to:

Limoges

[Seljuk22]

Official:
Bremen to Alghero and Trapani were operated last summer and it looks like they come back.

[Hollymead]

THIS COULD CATCH A FEW OUT !


""Currently Ryanair carry unaccompanied minors aged 14 or 15 years ONLY upon completion and signature of a form of indemnity at check-in of EACH departure airport, by a parent or guardian. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS FACILITY WILL NO LONGER BE AVAILABLE AS AND FROM THE 1st APRIL 2009
Children under the age of 14 years must always be accompanied on the same reservation by a passenger over 16 years. AS AND FROM THE 1st APRIL 2009 ALL CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 18 YEARS MUST ALWAYS BE ACCOMPANIED ON THE SAME RESERVATION.""

[groundhogbhx]

WHBM Nice idea but I don't think it would work too well. FR shut the gate at -10. If you aren't through your bags are automatically offloaded, as are you. With the normal hold baggage loads we get in BHX it takes less than 5 minutes to locate your bag. The only thing you would do is add to FR's profits as they get to keep your money and burn a little less fuel. Does it happen? Most days for us, as the gate closes you get the choice of offloading or leaving the unpaid bag behind. Paperwork gets changed and the flight departs on time, bit of a pain if the lmc is 500kg or more because it means a new loadsheet but that only takes a couple of minutes. There are exceptions when it doesn't go to plan, but it is a rare occurance. FR have got it down to a fine art.

[en2r]

Ryanair seem to have abandoned the attempted hostile takeover of Aer Lingus after the Irish Governmment rejected their offer for the airline. Source RTE News website

The Government has rejected Ryanair's offer of €1.40 per share for its 25% shareholding in Aer Lingus. Transport Minister Noel Dempsey said the Government believed the Ryanair offer greatly undervalued Aer Lingus and would have a significant negative impact on competition in the market.
'Because we live on an island Irish consumers depend very heavily on air transport. A monopoly in this area would not be in the best interests of Irish consumers,' Minister Dempsey said.
Ryanair said it was disappointed by the Government decision, but would respect and abide by it. The airline said the decision meant Ryanair's offer would not be successful, as it could not achieve acceptance by 90% of shareholders.
Ryanair said it believed the Government's decision was wrong. 'Ryanair will now focus all of our energies on continuing to successfully grow and develop Ireland's biggest airline,' chief executive Michael O'Leary said.

[eu01]

new bases

Ryanair keep negotiating with several partners about the conditions required to create the carrier's new operational bases. For example, there are good chances to finalize the deal to base 2-3 planes in Krakow, Poland and 1 in Zaragoza, Spain. As always, the conditions are tough. Like in Zaragoza: "La empresa puso sobre la mesa una oferta económica que los políticos aragoneses quieren rebajar en un 10% para poder afrontar esta inversión en tiempos de crisis" (the locals negotiate to pay [Ryanair] 10% less for this priviledge in these tough times). In both cases the results of the bargaining will be known within a few weeks.

[holybejaysus]

Ryanair to open transatlantic route?

I read in the paper 2 weeks ago (the Irish Examiner I think) that Ryanair are negotiating with Niagara Falls airport to open a transatlantic route, and they are looking at flights for as little as $10! Anyone got the lowdown on what stage things are at? And what's the catch, as there always seems to be with Ryanair? Maybe $500 "airport taxes" and the like.....

[LPFR]

Oh no, not again.

There was already a heavy discussion about Ryanair and Niagara Falls a few previous pages ago. Nothing new about it.

Your right Seljuk22, they're not really brand new like all others. Post eddited.

[frnikolai]

RYANAIR: Bournemouth to Wroclaw

Hi,

I am moving to Portsmouth tomorrow! I was pleased to see that Ryanair would be offering a flight from Bournemouth to Wroclaw.

It appears that they might be pulling out of this route? There is a lot of Polish people in Portsmouth, and this route is quite talked about - and now it is disappearing?

Seems bad to me as there is a lot of us in the South - and we do need to fly to Poland.

Are Ryanair finishing the route or what is happening? I can't seem to be able to book tickets at all, after March?

Thank you very much.

Nikolai.

[OliWW]

Have FR got any plans to release any new routes from EMA this summer, was some word a few weeks ago about Malta, Stockholm and Ibiza

[ryanair1]

frnikolai- correct we are pulling the Wroclaw-Bournemouth sector.

But don't worry too much. Internal discussions about Warsaw and/or Krakow to Bournemouth from July 09

[pubicAir]

Hot of the Press Headline news

Irish Government wins this round. MOL licks wounds.

Take-off aborted but expect more turbulence ahead - Irish - Independent.ie

[frnikolai]

So there will be a Bournemouth to Warsaw/Krakow route starting from July? I think you should really get a Bournemouth to Poland route, as this will be FULL each way.

Thank you.

[Lord Lardy]

Irish Government wins this round. MOL licks wounds.

The offer isn't dead yet. I've yet to read that they have officially pulled out of the offer. However, personally I think it is a dead duck for the next couple of years anyway. The Ryanair chief executive has been unusually reserved about the whole thing. Perhaps when the figures were run, based on the market as a whole and their own balance sheet that they felt that now is not the right time to go offering more. The offer as it stands was never going to tempt the larger shareholders, notably the Government. In terms of the money offered it's only peanuts in comparison to what the country's troubles are. Getting just over 50% of the company would have been useless to them. All they would gain is putting in place their own board and management. They wouldn't get access to Aer Lingus money unless they had something in the region of 75% from recolection from a media report on it. Ryanair themselves are quoted as saying they wanted at least 90% for it to work. If a new offer comes in in the next couple of years I suspect it will only work if there is a new Chief Executive at the helm.

Ryanair may have their own challenges, like all airlines to deal with over the coming months. Large aircraft deliveries in the teeth of a recession, coupled with growing unemployment in a deepeing European financial meltdown has to considered by their board and I'm sure that is exactly what has been done by Ryanair.

This years results will give an indication to the market as a whole how serious things really are out there in the industry. UK now officially in recession along with most of Europe and America. The amount of 'free seats' being given away pre and post Christmas is staggering. However, if you are to keep your load factors as promised to your shareholders there really is no other way, however yield is going to take a hammering.

[euroxx]

Ryanair - STN to Malta from 29th March

According to www.maltairport.com in flight schedules, ryanair will start daily flights from STN to MLA from 29th March. Schedule:

Daily exSAT FR 0912 STN-MLA Arr. MLA 1205
Daily exSAT FR 0913 MLA-STN Dep. MLA 1235

SAT FR 0912 STN-MLA Arr. MLA 1235
SAT FR 0913 MLA-STN Dep.MLA 1305

This is in addition to the Daily Luton flights to MLA.

Can anyone confirm this, as nothing is mentioned on Ryanair's website, only source is the website of Malta airport.

[eu01]

Fighting for Ciampino

Ryanair called on Regione Lazio to accept the factual findings of the official noise report conducted at Rome-Ciampino Airport which confirmed that there is no noise issue for the surrounding region, and to admit that they commissioned a false and biased (Cristal) report into noise pollution in order to call for unlawful and unnecessary flight reductions at Ciampino airport.

The airline highlighted that the official report into noise at Rome-Ciampino airport, which was undertaken by the AdR and the independent Airport Technical Committee, found that:

• Just 100 households, which were built in 1997 (before new legislation governing noise pollution was introduced), are affected by noise. These 100 homes will receive noise reduction improvements, paid for by AdR.
• Air pollution levels around Ciampino were in line with that of a medium sized town, with private cars being the main cause of these normal levels of air pollution.
• The unlawful 30% reduction in capacity imposed at Rome-Ciampino in July, 2007, did not reduce noise levels in the area and so this restriction on flights had no effect on noise in the Ciampino area.

The carrier confirmed that calls by the Regione Lazio to further reduce the capacity at Rome-Ciampino Airport are unlawful and unnecessary and are designed solely to remove competition (...) from the Rome market".

Source: WAPA