Ryanair - 6

[Seljuk22]

From 25th Oct FR starting NYO-RYG and NYO-CRL both double daily.

[djp]

Hahn is OK once you get a hire car you can be out and about onto a couple of nearby motorways very quickly .

OK it can get very very cold in winter .

But I just love the bunny footprints in the apron !

[pee]

New route

Stockholm Skavsta - Oslo Rygge

Correct me if I'm wrong but they tried Skavsta to Torp before.

Yes indeed, they used to fly from NYO to TRF and had to cancel. There were quite a few routes inside of/from Scandinavia that didn't work as expected. Like NYO-AAR or NYO-TMP. I think formerly FR has been very reluctant to restart the "failed" ones, as if it was offended by any fiasco, nowadays we can observe that from time to time the same or similar do return.

I think there is no reason to generally avoid re-trying some of these less successful ones. For example, if NYO-TMP wasn't first ever Ryanair's route to Finland, it could have succeeded. But right at that time FR has been more or less unknown in Finland, the press was very critical towards them, people found it strange to use a cheap carrier (is it safe?) while Ryanair tried immediately the twice-daily flights. Hence, sometimes it could pay to try again in different circumstances, you never know.

[Jippie]

Interesting to see Ryanair starting 2, 2x daily flight from NYO in the winter while they usually only start low frequency(less then daily) routes.
RYG might be better positioned then TRF, not only is it closer to Oslo, it's also close to the Swedish border and could draw some people from midwest Sweden.

[Cymmon]

Ryanair to Lanzarote

Its good to see more competition on this Island. Hopefully the arrival will lower the fares as they are currently much more expensive than flying to Gran Canaria or Tenerife.

My only worries are how long will Ryanair stay on the route?
When does the discount for landing fees stop?
Will Mr OŽleary still stay on the route if the airport does not continue with the discount as he left Fuerteventura?

[apaul]

Not sure how long Ryanair will stay, bur Easyjet, Jet2 and Monarch also have reasonable fares to Lanzarote. There's more competition on flights from UK to Lanzarote than to Gran Canaria.

[bravoromeosierra]

Newquay-Stansted doesn't seem bookable past the Summer '09/Winter '10 changeover in October, have Ryanair pulled out?

[Skipness One Echo]

Yup was announced that it was being dropped a few weeks ago.

[davidjohnson6]

Skipness - is STN-NQY being dropped just for the winter season while it's too cold to consider going to the beach (as far as most people are concerned), or is this a permanent cancellation ?

[Skipness One Echo]

I think it's a seasonal drop from Stansted but don't quote me as I can't remeber where the Hell I read it.

[exloadie]

can you inform me when the last time there was a strike at LPL? or are you just useing stereotypes again?

[rapidman47]

Unfortunately Strikes and Liverpool go together like fish and chips.

Would have been true fifteen years ago, but man you are living in the past Liverpool is vastly different nowI moved up from the south

[boyzinblue]

New Routes:
OPO-FAO
OPO-FKB
OPO-NRN
PSA-BDS
PSA-TRS

[racedo]

July Passenger numbers

July 08 - 5.66 Million
July 09 - 6.73 Million
+ 19% increase

Load factor 89% unchanged

Last 12 Months to July 2009 61.3 Milllion
Last 12 Months to July 2008 53.19 Milllion
Plus 8.1 Million

Last 12 months load Factor 82%

[mickyman]

racedo

Interesting figures...........Im waiting for the ASFKAP
interpretation which cannot be long in coming!

MM

[Seat62K]

I assume that these are not passenger numbers but seats sold.

(To be fair to Ryanair, it is not the only airline to report in this way. EasyJet does, too, I believe, and there may be others.)

[blueplatinum]

Do RYANAIR use supervision?

There is much excitment here in LPA about the first services starting from September.

Many bets on whether they will use IBERIA or GROUND FORCE handling (do they normally just go for the cheapest or will they just piggyback it onto the existing contract for TFS?).

We also want to know if they normally put their own staff in or subcontract the supervision to a third part such as Phoenix or ServiceAir.

Can someone who understands the company ethos please enlighten us as to what is likely to happen?

Thanks.

[Phileas Fogg]

Anybody that can get excited about Ryanair arriving really does need to get out more

[Skipness One Echo]

racedo
Interesting figures...........Im waiting for the ASFKAP
interpretation which cannot be long in coming!
MM

Play the ball and not the man and keep the issues for the playground please. This thread can be like wading through treacle that level of playground comment doesn't help.

July 08 - 5.66 Million
July 09 - 6.73 Million
+ 19% increase

Now that is impressive I have to agree.

We also want to know if they normally put their own staff in or subcontract the supervision to a third part such as Phoenix or ServiceAir.

Outside of home base at Dublin I believe it's all handled by external handling agents.

[frfly]

Ryanair will use a handling agent, there will usually be some onefrom fr on station for the launch but once that's done an airports/regional manager will just keep an eye on things usually through email. It's all down to the handling agent. Hope that helps.