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But don't worry too much. Internal discussions about Warsaw and/or Krakow to Bournemouth from July 09
I think you should really get a Bournemouth to Poland route, as this will be FULL each way.
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.
The 90% issue is that if you hold 90% of the shares in a PLC then you can legally acquire the rest of the shares of dissenting shareholders at the offer price which the other shareholders accepted at, it can't be more and it can't be less.
The reason you would want to acquire the rest of the shares when you have 90% is that you can cancel the listing of a PLC on a stock exchange which is very expensive in terms of costs both in Legal, Audit and Statutory reporting with no benefit to the company as shares won't be traded .......£1-2 million a year is rough guesstimate cost. Private companies have less legal requirements.
Example is Glazer family acquired last 9.9% of shares in Manchester United Plc once they had got to 90% even though the shareholders didn't want to sell.......it then reverted to Manchester United Ltd.
It happens all the time with companies taken over as most shareholders sell once 50% reached as realise have little or no power after that.
Join Date: Apr 2008
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one of the very few who will return to profit very quickly, if not so already. Pretty good for a low brain airline eh?
Ryanair is making money mainly thanks to Dublin and the situation of monopoly with many airports (= plenty of subsidies). There are few others such as no distribution costs (nothing genius here, just have a website that works... and even that, they can't make it...) and very low salaries, especially to cabin crew and HQ staff (which explain a huge turnover at HQ).
Few questons I would be happy to ask MOL:
- do you expect any of these routes to be profitable: BOHLIG, BOHREU, REUNador, LTNLIG, plus the dead in the water MALDVLC, BRIMLA etc etc
- if you know that curent toughest europen market is obviously the UK, so why do you continue to base all your expansions plans in the UK market????
Ryanair last annoucement was for an expansion in: BOH, BRS and EDI!!! This is crazy. Just few new routes outside uk for ALC, but actually was mainly UK/irish routes and few at REU.
What is the network strategy of Ryanair??? Expanding in the most difficult market? Do they really think they could kill easyJet which is going from success to success, especially in... continental europe?
6 months ago, I said that contrary to what were saying MOL, the biggest winner of the crisis will be easyJet (because they use main airport and business high yield PAX will switch from major to EZY) AND NOT ryanair, because contrary to 2001, its main competitors were now offering lowest fares. In 2001, business PAX swith from EI and BA to ryanair because the prices differences were huge, but as these airlines restructured, the price difference is nowday not big enough to change and to loose FF points. At the end, yes a business passenger could swith from AZ to EZY for CDGMXP, but will never swith from AZ to FR to do a BGYBVA.
This is exactly what happened
anna-list, I can see we agree for a majority of our points of view.
To call them 'low brain' seems a little bit harsh, but in any case I'm sure they will continue to make mistakes and will continue to amuse us with their press releases
Ryanair's management has a very weird attitude towards any researches concerning the destinations, route selection, demand otlook and the passengers' opinions. In many occasions they simply prefer the empirical approach (try-as-you-go) – but it looks pretty chaotic sometimes
Another thing I am thinking about: the transatlantic airline. I know they are working on it, but MOL always said that they will have a business class to subsidies the eco class, as always. But I ma wondering if there is a potential for business passengers with an airport like Niagara falls? Just a question here, but looks like very weird to me
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Anyone got news about the err..... "site" planned for upstate NY
Maybe he's got an itinery with some sightseeing (not optional) in Greenland at a nominal extra charge for let's see, mabye
Polar Bears
Glaciers
Icebergs
Northern Lights Etc....
or whatever
Great way to use the 40 or so surplus a/c though
Low cycles when its time to flip them too
Maybe he's got an itinery with some sightseeing (not optional) in Greenland at a nominal extra charge for let's see, mabye
Polar Bears
Glaciers
Icebergs
Northern Lights Etc....
or whatever
Great way to use the 40 or so surplus a/c though
Low cycles when its time to flip them too
Join Date: Apr 2006
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bournemouth poland demand isnt really the issue, its more a uk poland issue. but there is still a massive jewish and polish community in bournemoth and the south coast which is going to be traveling up to london or bristol if it is not served from bournemouth. warsaw would be more central to appeal to more poles
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Michael Cawley is expected to hold a press conference in Marseilles tomorrow. Most probably the Marseille Provence base will get one more aircraft (a fourth one) and four new routes will be announced.
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Ryanair appear to have reduced the fee from 4euro per sector to 2 euro per sector since last week
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Ryanair appear to have reduced the fee from 4euro per sector to 2 euro per sector since last week
BTW, i may want to use the 'return' portion of a ticket soon without using the outbound section (online checkin) - I reckon this should be OK? I'll have a valid boarding card for the return flight. Anybody think diffferent?
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You should be fine just using return leg -have done it a few times now. Ryanair deals with returns as two singles so no dependency on using the first leg to be allowed to travel on the return.
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"shouldn't fees be reasonable and fair, like the banks?"
Oh yes, because the worlds banks are a shining example right now of how to do business or how to treat your customers....?!?!
Oh yes, because the worlds banks are a shining example right now of how to do business or how to treat your customers....?!?!
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It appears to be an adjustment based on changes to the Euro/Sterling exchange rate. Everything seems to be converted at €1=£0.95 now.
Expect the sterling price for items sold onboard to go up soon (even if they're sourced from the UK, in which case the Euro price should go down with the sterling price remaining constant
Expect the sterling price for items sold onboard to go up soon (even if they're sourced from the UK, in which case the Euro price should go down with the sterling price remaining constant
Join Date: Jun 2005
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Hi, im traveling from Girona airport tommorow, does anyone know if they announce the gate number prior to boarding? aso can you use the self service machines if you have not paid for airport checkin? thanks
The move to ancillaries
I cannot believe they have jacked up the fee for 98% of card users to £9.50/return
Filling a plane from (for example) London on a Saturday morning is much easier, compared to Tuesday afternoon. As the ticket price differential between the two decreases, those offpeak flights rather start to lose their appeal and their load factors begin to fall
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It's been free for years and I suppose they continue to do that. If the CC fee is unavoidable then they will have to change the prices that they advertise(and they will become twice as high).