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Just happening:
Milan: 9h00 RyanAir's press conference, the presentation of the “RyanAir manifesto for Malpensa”.
'Good bye Alitalia' or something like that?
13/09/2007
* Milano: 9h00 conferenza stampa RyanAir per la presentazione
del "manifesto di RyanAir per Malpensa".
* Milano: 9h00 conferenza stampa RyanAir per la presentazione
del "manifesto di RyanAir per Malpensa".
'Good bye Alitalia' or something like that?
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Pretty much so. Here is more:
Ryanair is ready to invest 1.000.000.000 USD for the launch of 80 routes from Malpensa and Bergamo in answer to Alitalia's plans to cut nearly the half of its 340 every day flights.
Its “manifesto for Malpensa” introduced today head of the communication of the company Peter Sherrard.
The investment would concern the purchase of 12 airplanes with a base in Malpensa, where Ryanair wants to open 50 international routes to European destinations and 10 national routes.
Ryanair è pronta a investire 1 miliardo di dollari per il lancio di 80 rotte da Malpensa e Bergamo in risposta al piano di Alitalia che prevede di tagliare quasi la metà dei suoi 340 voli giornalieri.
Lo ha detto il capo della comunicazione della compagnia Peter Sherrard presentando il suo "manifesto per Malpensa".
L'investimento prevede l'acquisto di 12 aerei con base a Malpensa, dove Ryanair intende aprire 50 rotte internazionali con destinazioni europee 10 rotte nazionali per un investimento complessivo di 840 mln.
Domani la società incontrerà i vertici Sea, gestore degli areoporti milanesi, nella sua sede di Dublino.
Lo ha detto il capo della comunicazione della compagnia Peter Sherrard presentando il suo "manifesto per Malpensa".
L'investimento prevede l'acquisto di 12 aerei con base a Malpensa, dove Ryanair intende aprire 50 rotte internazionali con destinazioni europee 10 rotte nazionali per un investimento complessivo di 840 mln.
Domani la società incontrerà i vertici Sea, gestore degli areoporti milanesi, nella sua sede di Dublino.
Its “manifesto for Malpensa” introduced today head of the communication of the company Peter Sherrard.
The investment would concern the purchase of 12 airplanes with a base in Malpensa, where Ryanair wants to open 50 international routes to European destinations and 10 national routes.
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Ryanair, and sea transport advertising!
Ryanair offers advertising space to sea carrier
Irish low-cost airline Ryanair has announced that it is courting sea transport provider the Dublin Port Company in an attempt to sell advertising space in its in-flight magazines.
The carrier, run by entrepreneur Michael O'Leary, announced that it had taken the decision to offer the advertising space to the firm after hearing that Aer Lingus had rejected a similar application.
Ryanair stated that the move was a symbolic gesture indicating that it did not consider itself troubled by competition from the port company or other modes of transport, "not by air, not by rail, and certainly not by sea".
Peter Sherrard, head of communications at the firm, says: "Ryanair looks forward to welcoming the Dublin Port Company's €30,000 [£20,600] advertising contract to our inflight magazine because unlike Aer Lingus, we aren't afraid of any competition."
Meanwhile, Mr O'Leary has told Belgian weekly Trends that air transport is a "stupid business" which often results in loss-making enterprises, Reuters reports.
Hmmmm Wonder if he allow easyjet to run an advertising campaign in the ryanair magazine!!??
Irish low-cost airline Ryanair has announced that it is courting sea transport provider the Dublin Port Company in an attempt to sell advertising space in its in-flight magazines.
The carrier, run by entrepreneur Michael O'Leary, announced that it had taken the decision to offer the advertising space to the firm after hearing that Aer Lingus had rejected a similar application.
Ryanair stated that the move was a symbolic gesture indicating that it did not consider itself troubled by competition from the port company or other modes of transport, "not by air, not by rail, and certainly not by sea".
Peter Sherrard, head of communications at the firm, says: "Ryanair looks forward to welcoming the Dublin Port Company's €30,000 [£20,600] advertising contract to our inflight magazine because unlike Aer Lingus, we aren't afraid of any competition."
Meanwhile, Mr O'Leary has told Belgian weekly Trends that air transport is a "stupid business" which often results in loss-making enterprises, Reuters reports.
Hmmmm Wonder if he allow easyjet to run an advertising campaign in the ryanair magazine!!??
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Last year the Malta Government announced a set of incentives to attract low cost carriers to Malta. They are being granted, however, for selected destinations only. Now the government has been urged to let Ryanair fly from Bologna as well.
Source: The Times of Malta
It would be "suicide" for the tourism industry if the government did not give Ryanair the Bologna route, which Meridiana has just dropped, and allowed for the shedding of a single route in winter, the president of the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association, Josef Formosa Gauci, insisted yesterday.
Expressing major concern, Mr Formosa Gauci strongly appealed to the government to give Ryanair what it was requesting as part of its package "not to jeopardise its operation" and disrupt the positive trends.
Mr Formosa Gauci was speaking during the launch of the BOV-MHRA hotel survey conducted by Deloitte, which saw all key performance indicators up for the second quarter.
Occupancy levels, average achieved room rates and, as a result, gross operating profits for every hotel category were the highest in the last six years, and tourist expenditure had also increased, the survey revealed.
Tourist arrivals had grown by six per cent in the second quarter (6.4 per cent from January to June) and, at just under 502,000, arrivals for the first six months reached the highest level in the last six years.
Mr Formosa Gauci described the results as "very encouraging" and a confirmation that the collective efforts of the industry's stakeholders were paying off.
Expressing major concern, Mr Formosa Gauci strongly appealed to the government to give Ryanair what it was requesting as part of its package "not to jeopardise its operation" and disrupt the positive trends.
Mr Formosa Gauci was speaking during the launch of the BOV-MHRA hotel survey conducted by Deloitte, which saw all key performance indicators up for the second quarter.
Occupancy levels, average achieved room rates and, as a result, gross operating profits for every hotel category were the highest in the last six years, and tourist expenditure had also increased, the survey revealed.
Tourist arrivals had grown by six per cent in the second quarter (6.4 per cent from January to June) and, at just under 502,000, arrivals for the first six months reached the highest level in the last six years.
Mr Formosa Gauci described the results as "very encouraging" and a confirmation that the collective efforts of the industry's stakeholders were paying off.
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Low-cost airfares will only get cheaper in the coming years, budget carrier Ryanair Holdings PLC forecast Tuesday, predicting a 5 percent to 10 percent drop in its own average fare price this year.
Ryanair Chief Operating Officer Michael Cawley also dismissed comments from his own Chief Executive Michael O'Leary that the airline was considering a long-haul service, saying that would happen "not now and maybe not ever."
Cawley said that fares had to come down further for the budget airline to continue to grow.
"Our average fares are set to drop between 5 to 10 percent this year," he said in a speech at the annual World Low Cost Airlines Congress. Fares could drop by another 5 percent next year, he added.
Irish Ryanair, which has its major hub at Stansted Airport in London, is Europe's largest budget airline by passengers carried and has the lowest cost base among its rivals.
Cawley said the airline had wanted to emulate the success of Southwest Airlines Co. in the United States, saying that both the regulatory climate and the travel opportunities were more beneficial for growth in Europe.
"Who wants to go to Boise, Idaho, when you can go to Krakow, to Prague," he said. "The midweek break market, or even the weekend break market, doesn't exist in the United States."
Ryanair already flies to 150 airports around Europe and Cawley said the carrier was in talks with 150 more, pointing out that it still does not fly to six EU countries.
Cawley also said that Ryanair retained some hope that it could eventually succeed in buying Aer Lingus Group PLC, the Irish rival in which it has built a 29.4 percent stake after failing to close a hostile takeover bid.
Ryanair is now Aer Lingus' biggest shareholder, ahead of the Irish government with just over 25.3 percent, and has begun to try to enforce change at the carrier.
Aer Lingus on Monday rejected Ryanair's calls for an extraordinary general meeting for shareholders to vote on plans to retain its route from Shannon in western Ireland to London Heathrow.
"Aer Lingus have wonderful opportunities if we could get our hands on it," said Cawley.
However, he rejected suggestions by O'Leary that Ryanair is considering launching a separate airline that would fly long-haul between Europe and the United States around the turn of the decade.
O'Leary told trade magazine Flight International in April — shortly after the European Union approved an aviation deal with the United States to open up the restricted routes to new rivals — that the new airline could fly to five or six U.S. cities from European bases and offer one-way fares as low as US$12 (€8.94).
Cawley put those comments down to the maverick nature of the Ryanair CEO, saying that high aircraft prices ruled out long-haul services.
Ryanair Chief Operating Officer Michael Cawley also dismissed comments from his own Chief Executive Michael O'Leary that the airline was considering a long-haul service, saying that would happen "not now and maybe not ever."
Cawley said that fares had to come down further for the budget airline to continue to grow.
"Our average fares are set to drop between 5 to 10 percent this year," he said in a speech at the annual World Low Cost Airlines Congress. Fares could drop by another 5 percent next year, he added.
Irish Ryanair, which has its major hub at Stansted Airport in London, is Europe's largest budget airline by passengers carried and has the lowest cost base among its rivals.
Cawley said the airline had wanted to emulate the success of Southwest Airlines Co. in the United States, saying that both the regulatory climate and the travel opportunities were more beneficial for growth in Europe.
"Who wants to go to Boise, Idaho, when you can go to Krakow, to Prague," he said. "The midweek break market, or even the weekend break market, doesn't exist in the United States."
Ryanair already flies to 150 airports around Europe and Cawley said the carrier was in talks with 150 more, pointing out that it still does not fly to six EU countries.
Cawley also said that Ryanair retained some hope that it could eventually succeed in buying Aer Lingus Group PLC, the Irish rival in which it has built a 29.4 percent stake after failing to close a hostile takeover bid.
Ryanair is now Aer Lingus' biggest shareholder, ahead of the Irish government with just over 25.3 percent, and has begun to try to enforce change at the carrier.
Aer Lingus on Monday rejected Ryanair's calls for an extraordinary general meeting for shareholders to vote on plans to retain its route from Shannon in western Ireland to London Heathrow.
"Aer Lingus have wonderful opportunities if we could get our hands on it," said Cawley.
However, he rejected suggestions by O'Leary that Ryanair is considering launching a separate airline that would fly long-haul between Europe and the United States around the turn of the decade.
O'Leary told trade magazine Flight International in April — shortly after the European Union approved an aviation deal with the United States to open up the restricted routes to new rivals — that the new airline could fly to five or six U.S. cities from European bases and offer one-way fares as low as US$12 (€8.94).
Cawley put those comments down to the maverick nature of the Ryanair CEO, saying that high aircraft prices ruled out long-haul services.
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With flyglobespan pulling out of Stansted completely, there is no scheduled route from STN to Tenerife. I used this route regularly and it was always busy. With Ryanair already flying there from various airports surely its only a matter of time? Or maybe Easyjet will start flying there? I hope someone does else i'll have to use Gatwick to visit my parents.