Ryanair - 6

[Dropline]

You think the tickets would be sold at a "reasonable price" when FR knew they had thousands of football fans prepared to pay whatever it takes to get them to the game?

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[eu01]

The Higher Administrative Court in Münster, Germany, has restricted today the operation hours of the airport NRN- Weeze (to between 6:00 - 22:00 only). FR's reaction: If the court's decision is not revised by Wednesday, 29 April - the base will be closed (causing the loss of 2.5 million passengers annually and 2,500 jobs, according to the Ryanair spokesperson).

Blackmailing again (not unjustifiably, though).

[FR195W]

That´s partly correct. Based Airlines will be able to land between 06:00 - 23:00. All others between 06:00 - 22:00.

Hope they´ll find a solution...

Greets,
fr195w.

[Jippie]

Those openingstimes look long enough, 17 hours.
That's exactly what Ryanair demands from Eindhoven to open a base there.

[babemagnet]

Its pure bluffing from Ryanair just to put on some pressure for the German goverment!

The goverment will not let it happen they are to chicken for that!

[Carmoisine]

Or is it seizing upon a chance to blame someone else (Ryanairs M.O), and close an under performing base?

[Jippie]

I doubt it's underperforming given the really short timeframe this base has grown from 0 a/c to 7 a/c

[babemagnet]

From today Ryanair will no longer be accepting bookings on affected flights to/from Dusseldorf-Weeze for travel after 2nd May.


This is bull**** you still can book the flights Ryanair is just scaring everybody

[Seljuk22]

Also FR is thinking about to open a new base in Germany but not before next year in spring. Maybe FMM, LBC or FKB. But we will see.
Today FR celebrates 10th anniversary in Germany (HHN was their first airport) and next week there is a press conference at HHN. Are ZAD and CAG the only gifts?

[Jippie]

@Babemagnet:
It looks like all the flights that would arrive back at Weeze after 23:00 are NOT bookable anymore. This means that some destinations(eg. Malaga) are not bookable anymore. I can understand this move by Ryanair as they are not sure if they are able to operate this flights.
And despite I believe dat reducing the opening times by 1 hour shouldn't make to much of a difference for Ryanair, it does create chaos in their summer schedules as most aircraft are timed to arrive back for the night between 23:00 and 24:00. It's more or less to late now to change the timings of all the other flights.
They will have to reschedule more or less all the flights for the winter season and try not to lose to many frequency's in that process.

[cesare.caldi]

The Higher Administrative Court in Münster, Germany, has restricted today the operation hours of the airport NRN- Weeze (to between 6:00 - 22:00 only).

When begin the effects of this decision?

[Jippie]

Next week 1st of may.

[racedo]

Wonder who is behind the decision.

Local Pols, Lufty or someone else ?

[pee]

Blackmailing again (not unjustifiably, though).

Obviously, there might be a good reason to criticize the Court's decision. The trend of limiting the time-frame of operations at European airports is pretty disturbing. That is even harder to accept when the airport like this one is located SO FAR from the nearest centre of population (any bigger city). BUT, regardless of that, what's the point in threatening the Court???

Otherwise, the timing is unbelievable, such a hasty enforcement of that ruling. Why breaking thousands of binding contracts between carriers and PAX at so short notice... by the force of law?

[racedo]

Otherwise, the timing is unbelievable, such a hasty enforcement of that ruling. Why breaking thousands of binding contracts between carriers and PAX at so short notice... by the force of law?

Its why I am wondering who is behind the decision as it looks political with someone in the background pulling big strings.

[45989]

Impressive job loss claims (2500) for DUS lite
Must be damn near 70% of ryr's workforce.

Does anyone take this sort of rubbish seriously

[babemagnet]

2500 people they mean: cabin crew,pilots,mechanics,Handling,loaders,fireman,fuellers,atc, check inn,security,customs,imigration,bus drivers,etc etc Or you do not understand that????

[davidjohnson6]

babemagnet - 2500 people for a relatively small airport which is mainly used for Dutch and Germans to go on holiday and with *relatively* little inbound local tourism sounds on the high side, even when you include all the local economic benefits. I would be surprised if there are many hotels / restaurants around Weeze seeing *substantial* amounts of trade from inbound tourists. Sure, there are jobs that depend on Weeze, but I imagine most are direct jobs (e.g. firecrew or people working at shops in the airport) rather than indirect.

I imagine that the main business trade goes through Dusseldorf's main airport (or FRA) rather than NRN. I guess cargo would mainly head for the much larger FRA, AMS, CGN or LGG. As for tourism, I haven't seen many ads for '2 weeks in the sunny Ruhr !

[conradmueller]

Thats true.
You should be always careful, when anyone from FR opens their mouth. They tend to blow everything up like a baloon. People might think they are giving development aid to NRN.