Ryanair - 6

[Charlie Roy]

When can we expect a Beauvais base to be announced? (Nothing on the wires about it).

What routes can we expect?

[dumdumbrain]

BVA

oooo its somewhere on the internet, on a Ryanair website, aint going to say where as i dont want to lose my job. But for those of you who are crew, im sure you will find it if you want to post a BS Query *hint*

Routes I have no idea, but im sure it will do very well.

Lee

[Cloud Bunny]

Heard nothing of this. Not on the list that was sent out, and whats a BS Query??

[Jippie]

According to the presentation they had on the shareholders meeting they will open 1 new base(2 planes) this winter.

[Charlie Roy]

Beauvais makes sense in the context of a new Easyjet base at CDG.

[dumdumbrain]

pressman, that memo is over a week old, all crew have been found and placed now, many of them from PIK.

[cougafer]

I see FR have an offer for 0.01GBP incl taxes and charges on all routes from BHD, but whenever I try to book any of them, they all appear with taxes and charges, even though I've made sure the flights are included in the offer (black out periods, etc), anybody know why/ if/when these flights will be updated?
Poor student et al, almost-free-flights are a godsend!

thanks in advance.

[JulietNovemberPapa]

I see what you mean, Coug. I don't know why it's appearing - it was OK earlier - so I guess it's simply an error.

[cougafer]

with any luck theyll update it soon enough, and i'll be able to make my 2p trips to London and Liverpool

[JulietNovemberPapa]

Just checked again and the 1p all-in fares are again appearing.

I booked quite a few 1p all-in flights the first time it appeared and the second time. Indeed, came back on Tuesday from SVQ - and I got STN-SVQ-STN for 2p all-in. This load is the third time, and it's a shame that so few routes are available. Never mind, perhaps next time.

[jack_essex]

I have just had a quick look and you can get lots of the 0.1p flights inc all taxes and charges (or not in this case). You just have to be very picky on the dates and times of the flights. For example, the morning STN - BHD flights seem to be all virtually free, where as most of the evening STN - BHD are all with taxes. They are on there you just have to look for them quite hard :-)

I also would have liked more STN routes available in this offer.

[Charlie Roy]

The last 2 Ryanair newsletters that I received had as a subject "Summer schedules now on sale", but then the content of the email was about the winter sale.

Meanwhile, I haven't found any routes with Summer 2008 flights on sale

[owenkirk2005]

east midlands is all on sale, thinks theres one or two routes still to put on but the majoritory is on sale. also i counted on a monday 6 departures early morning using based aircraft, that was in may next year.

[FLYboh]

On another forum an FR cabin crew has said that the next 3 bases will be EDI, RIX and BOH. Anyone else heard this?

[JulietNovemberPapa]

There's a never-ending argument about the next load of bases. Among those always featured are EDI (more recently), BOH, RIX, and BVA.

[eu01]

Originally Posted by JulietNovemberPapa

FR will never offer proper connections, with through ticketing, connecting baggage, increased responsibility, etc, not least because it results in greater complexity and reduced yields.

In principle, I agree. It's hard to imagine FR implementing connecting flights as is the case with the majority legacy airlines (and some LCC's as well). At least not at every airport in the Ryanair's network, not in the same way. However, one should not underestimate the vast potential markets that could be won simply by making just a few basic changes.

Can you tell the probability to get a direct connection of, say, Stockholm and Italian Pescara in a foreseeable future? Very low indeed. But some people are brave enough to take "self-responsibly" connecting flights, they hardly disappoint. You could, however, triple the number of passengers between these destinations just by selling them flights from start to the end on a single ticket, even if telling them to still pick-up luggages at the interchange airport. FR could even make some financial gains by, let's say, making the purchase of travel insurance obligatory on such a flights. I can envisage designating one or two centrally located bases (e.g. HHN and/or CRL) to be the exception (by providing connections) and carefully selecting some routes that could be SAFELY included in connecting flights. After all, FR knows well which connections are "safe" and the failure unlikely. There are many dots in the network that be connected (like Sweden/Finland/Poland/Hungary to Italy/France and Spain, for example). The load factors and yields could improve. And if you single out just one airport, you can be more flexible, can't you?

[janus627]

FR is playing a strange game with Infratil, the owner of PIK and LBC:

PIK getīs some new routes now, but now they torture Lubeck...
- Marseille disappears completely for the winter schedule officially
- Dublin disappears for the winter schedule officially
- London sized down to about 10 or 12 dept. per week for the winter...

and then next summer...

- London up to 19/21 again
- Marseille gone forever (?)
- Dublin back for two weeks from March 15 to March 31 and then also disappearing forever (?)

especially the last is strange. Why do they reanimate a route for two weeks to cut it down again? Especially strange, because Aer Lingus has cut itīs Hamburg-Dublin-Route from winter on, too - only because of FRīs price-war from two sides (Bremen and Lubeck).

[Skipness One Echo]

Actually growth at PIK is stagnant. The new routes are at the expense of cutting back on other services. No new aircraft in prospect at the mo alas.

AND on a slightly different topic if anyone knows when EI-CSC, the Cable and Wireless soon to be retired B738 is to be retired and if it's going up to Prestwick for work I'd be very greatful as I haven't had the chance to hammer it with my Nikon yet.....cheers

[Voldermort]

"The new routes are at the expense of cutting back on other services"
This has been the case for some time now at PIK but since the daily ORK service was announced the daily Belfast service has been switched to be operated with the BHD based a/c.Not earth shattering news I know but at least its a step in the right direction
As for the Blue one I will keep my eyes peeled

[cesare.caldi]

Some route change from BGY summer 2008:
BGY-HHN morning flights start to be operated by HHN based plane
BGY-PIK start to be operated by PIK based plane
so free space for new routes from BGY!