Ryanair - 6

[dymonaz]

Paid toilets could very well work like priority boarding thing. Think... There's three toilets total, 1 at the front, 2 at the back (right?) So, there's one free (legal requirement) at the back. It has a huge queue, and is quite far away for people in rows 1-15. The other two - priority loo! at €1 per go You can prebook online, if you wish so, at €.75 great stuff! Or "buy 10 for only €5" and use them on your future flights (terms and conditions apply)

I probably shouldn't have said this... they will really implement this now ;/

[Thaimike]

Good or bad publicity it dosen't really matter, a few disgruntled consumers MOL dosen't care, a few new customers MOL does care. The point is all the publicity was FREE!! FREE!! FREE!!
MOL would have had to pay thousands for all that coverage!!
Now there's a streak of Irish geniuous.

[FR-]

One Bag ONLY!

For all pax who are planning a trip with FR . . . . . ONE BAG ONLY, AND MAKE SURE IT FITS (55X45X20). FR pilots are also now telling the cabin crew to make sure only one bag per pax, and to offload them straight the way. I just dont know why pax still come to the boarding gate with 2/3 bags and expect to get on. It just isn't fair on other pax who have paid to put bags into the hold. (I offloaded 5 pax yesterday for having too many bags or over sized).

Also im liking DUB base, airport stanby's go to the boarding gate and charge for over sized bags to go into the hold.

FR-

[take-off]

So is this toilet charge in place, or are they planning it?
Just been speaking to me mum, and her friend was charged to go to loo yesterday, didnt ask where she was flying, but having read it in paper , just understood they were planning it , well it really is scrapping the bottom of the barrel now, whats left to charge for the seat belts i guess, if ever a company deserves what it gets , then this must be one of them, oh well wonder who'll be first to follow FRs example?

[Rhodes13]

takeoff there is no toilet charge on RYR. As has been said it was said slightly tongue in cheek by MOL and a RYR spoke person has already said they have no plans to introduce it yet! It was free publicity for the company. Many would argue that not all publicity is good though.

I would suggest your mums friends is telling fibs if she thinks she was charged to go to the loo. Perhaps a few to many at altitude?

[take-off]

this one bag policy , im not stupid but once u have checked in this means any customer flying fr , wont be able to use the shops at the airport unless they can fit it in their carry on luggage, wonder why the airports havent cottoned on to this? So anybody buying a litre bottle of spirits then in duty free if they cant get it in the handluggage , they have to leave it behind?

[Facelookbovvered]

take off thats the idea

People will then have some left to spend on board, but once thing start getting busy it will only be a matter of time be all bloody hell breaks out, i feel for single mums travelling with a little one and all the baby kit that they need to take on board, sooner or later someone will loose it big style at the gate, i feel for the gate staff as well, but hey ho thats what you get when you 99p or a lot more for that matter, only a matter of time before Jet2, bay, et all follow suit

[The Real Slim Shady]

You were given notice of this months ago

[undw]

Oh dear......clever clever fools like MOL dice with the devil when it comes to the 'all publicity is good publicity' syndrome.........there will now be one of those unstoppable urban myths doing the rounds that Ryanair DOES charge to use the loos ...... ie. what an idiot/self defeating publicity which will make some nieve uncultured folk think twice about booking with Ryanair Actually come to think about it I do actuially believe this is Ryanair policy and Iam determined to let everyone know!

[groundhogbhx]

Suggestion I heard today was why not put MOL's face on the toilet paper, then there wouldn't be a problem paying to use it. Made me laugh

[befree]

Ryanair going ex-growth soon

Ryanair has just said it "sold" 7% more seats this Feb compared to 2008. In reality it is just dumping seats at below cost to people who may not even turn up having only paid a few euros on a electron card. The only thing to make it look better for them was it was in 28 days instead of 29 days in 2009.

This is the first single digit growth for over 4 years. The next milestone comes when the airline has a month of negetive growth. I think the pay to pee may be his ratners moment. Even if it was said as a joke it has left its mark in peoples minds. By May I expect growth will be 0-5% with negative growth after the summer. MOLs next problem is selling on all the planes that are 5 years old.

[pabely]

So how much more capacity have they between the 12 months? I make it 30 new 738s which must be a 5% increase in the number of seats available, give or take some WFU......

[Sober Lark]

the first single digit growth for over 4 years

"the first single digit growth for over 4 years"

All in all I think its a spectacular result considering we are in the midst of a severe global recession. Imagination probably isn't the way to try to build your reputation on predicting the future.

[Seljuk22]

6th a/c for PSA (announced) and 2nd a/c for AHO (will be announced soon).
New routes are/will be announced, too.

7% grow is not bad. Remember last year February has 29 days. So with a "normal" February last year the grow would be over 10%.

[befree]

Ryanair have about 45 planes comming each year and the plan was to go from 163 in 2008 to 181 in 2009 and then 223 in 2010. The rate of growth is controlled by selling a suitable number of planes per year. To keep to 10% growth they need to sell some 25 planes per year. At the same time boeing are a bit sort of trade and would make good offers to anyone who wished to buy new. The downturn is like a perfect storm for ryanair. The profit stream from selling 2nd hand planes above book value has gone. To keep the load factor up they are also having to keep planes parked for much of the winter.

At the end of March ryanair are reducing routes as the irish travel tax starts. That is likely to take a few percent more off growth and kill average income. In the UK airport charges are to rise and MOL is likely to pull more routes. I cannot see how this airline will have any growth after this summer.

[daz211]

What ever ! I have just booked STN-PMI for £6.00 RTN in mid May.
the only add on is the credit card booking fee !
the fare was FREE of TAX .

I had no problem with the Booking system what so ever.

When FR reduce the routes from Ireland they will just stick the A/C
on other routes, poss Italian routes.

[Skipness One Echo]

daz211 all that tells us is that they are desperate to sell the seats. All the underperforming days have fares like that. Some routes all fares are almost that low.
How much money do you iimagine that route is making them?

You talk about moving some of the fleet out of Ireland as if it was no big deal. Dublin used to be their core revenue generator, the DUB-UK market kept all the others afloat for years, now the aircraft are no longer making money in Eire. To blithely assume that things are rosey in Europe is nuts.

Eight new aircraft since January is it?

[daz211]

Dublin used to be their core revenue generator .

Yes and now its not this shows that Ryanair move with the times.

Im not thinking that all is rosey in Europe but lets stop losing sleep
over the worries of the world and enjoy a nice holiday in the med .

Just enjoy the VERY VERY cheap flights and live life .

[pikkuprinssi]

New routes from AHO:
Ancona, Billund, Brescia, Eindhoven, Graz, Hamburg(Lubeck) and Parma to be announced tomorrow.

[befree]

Easyjet pax down 6.8%

Easyjet are now shrinking to keep profits up. The two firms could not be more different. Easyjet want to keep routes profitable and do not have to keep growing. Ryanair is burning money to gain market share. Easyjet would clearly be a better airline to invest in.