Ryanair - 6

[kubik]

Just a base or new routes too?

[cesare.caldi]

I belive will be a new Ryanair base.

[MUFC_fan]

So can we have a guess at new routes?

I am guessing they will base 2 a/c for starters at the airport as that is what they usually do. Ok then..:

Liverpool
Shannon
Bremen
Budapest
Tenerife South
Fuerteventura
Oslo
Blackpool
Bournemouth

[eu01]

Michael O’Leary told The Times that Ryanair would follow easyJet and Flybe by quoting the total fare at all stages of the booking process on its website.

The European Commission has been investigating budget airline pricing policies amid concern that passengers are being deceived. It is expected to table legislation requiring all taxes and charges to be quoted throughout the booking process.
Anticipating the commission’s action, EasyJet and Flybe have moved to all-inclusive pricing in the past few weeks.
Ryanair (...) would adopt the same practice early next year, once it has changed its booking system software.

[egnxema]

Well if EZY claim to quote inc taxes & charges all the way through the process, why does the final quotation also add.....
Third-party airport operator charges & government taxes
per adult or child
£22.00
(per person)

I actually prefer the current Ryanair way of pricing.

[ESCNI]

EZY do now quote those extras throughout their booking procedure.

I suspect that they only indicate them at the end in order to clearly highlight the fees that are beyond their control.

So, why on earth would you actually prefer the current Ryanair way of pricing?

[tallseabird]

Just tried looking for a flight from BHD to LPL in December but there are only flights from BHD-LPL and not from LPL-BHD, seems a bit strange

[MUFC_fan]

I tried that last night, don't know why. Are they going to use a BHD aircraft to fly the reverse and swap a/c? Will just be a glich in the system.

[ESCNI]

Sounds like a glitch.


(.....sorry MUFC, I wasn't just correcting your spelling.)

[gate 22]

is it max 140 pax when landing or departing BHD can't remember, so if when landing maybe the flights are already full!!!

[OltonPete]

New Routes/Bases

Taken from another forum, rumoured new routes and a possible press conference tomorrow. Also ft.com and independent.ie reporting that Valencia and/or Alicante bases could be announced soon: -

"Dublin to Basel (
Dublin to Budapest
Dublin to Katowice
Dublin to Marrakech
Dublin to Nice
Dublin to Prague
Dublin to Szczecin"


Peter

[840]

The one that stands out there is Nice as Ryanair haven't touched it so far. Unless Toulon is counting as an approximation to Nice.

[Charlie Roy]

Well Prague isn't a current Ryanair destination either, but it's appearance fits in with rumours.

Budapest to Dublin shows on the routemap, but may be a glitch... ?

[eu01]

According to Danish press (Børsen), Ryanair is intensively negotiating with Dannish airports (Købennhavn-Kastrup and Roskilde) in order to find the replacement for Malmö-Sturup, that is to be axed in October. "The Øresund region is very important to us" - it's the official declaration, but so is the money. And here the main problem is. FR still wants to get some concessions from the airport's authorities and keeps complaining about charges. Why did they so abruptly retreat from MMX? Well, they seem to make MANY abrupt decisions nowadays...

Btw. Are there any FR press conferences going to take place today, as hinted here?

[S78]

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...k-1053418.html


So, RYR have a tech delay, resulting in you missing a RYR flight by a couple of minutes, and you still have to pay up


This is why I don't fly RYR, Their attitude stinks.


S78

[UPS@EMA]

Im sorry you feel this way S78, but you would of had the same response from Easyjet, bmibaby, Jet2. They are all point to point carriers. there is no connection available. if you miss the check in time then u miss the flight. its in the small print. simple as that. There attitude may stink but its company policy. Would you break company policy to help???? if it was your job on the line then the answer is no.

[VanBosh]

What has that got to do with this forum?

Ryanair clearly state that they are a point to point airline. These guys were late for the flight - whats the problem?

[RAT 5]

I'll be curious what RYR include in their 'all inclusive price'. At present they include various insurances. Some you can delete, others not. The 'wheelchair' levy is a scam and nothing more than a hidden profit earner blamed on some judge's ruling. Non deletable. Then there is another insurance, non deletable, but I can't find out what is being insured. Then there is a deletable travel insurance, which if you do so, and then go back a page to check your data, will again be added to the final bill when you arrive at the final booking page. You then once again have to trawl all the way back to the beginning to delete it.
With all inclusive pricing I wonder if these extra profit earners will be fixed and can not be removed.

I've always been curious how EZ can add taxes & charges at certain airports which are below the standard local rates that every operator has to pay. They have (used to have) a fixed add on for all routes. Either there is cross subsidy across the network for simplicity, or some of the actual charges have been included in the ticket price. They do not get subsidised airport charges at the major places. All have to pay the same.

[eu01]

I don't think it has to be 'all inclusive' price. It only has to be a 'rock-bottom' price that you have to pay while scrapping everything just to get on board with minimum frills. So, as you are at present unable to get your ticket without paying a wheelchair levy, it will have to be included in this basic price. Every travel insurance has been optional, it will not have to be included in the minimum price. Airport taxes - yes, priority boarding - no. And so on.

[WHBM]

Originally Posted by VanBosh

Ryanair clearly state that they are a point to point airline. These guys were late for the flight - whats the problem?

I've actually found Ryanair to be straightforward when I've missed a flight, eg accident on the M11 to Stansted delayed many passengers. The charge for rebooking is little different to other carriers. And that seems to be what they were going to do here.

What was different was there was a party of 47 children who refused to be split up between different flights. This must be a problem which afflicts any carrier where a large group gets misconnected, it would happen on BA at Heathrow as well. So how do others handle it ?

For those who say "Ah, but this was in the middle of a continuous journey" possibly don't realise that many passengers "connecting" at Heathrow on mainstream carriers nowadays are doing the same thing. One of the by-products of web ticket sales means that buying two tickets can be very much cheaper than any through ticket option (with justification, as they don't have all the costs of baggage repatriation for bags lost in the connection). Many passengers choose to do this nowadays at Heathrow and in a number of cases (eg where you change between carriers/alliances) it is no longer possible to get through tickets at all. The days of universal interlining on legacy carriers have gone. And with it the responsibilities of "looking after you throughout".