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Looking at a random friday date for MAY08 at PIK from 2255-2330 theres arrivals from BGY,STN,RIX,BVA,MJV and NYO unless its a mistake that makes 6 aircraft so is there another one coming also MRS being operated by MRS machine
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(French coastal naturist resort)
It will give MOL a nice scope for one of his highly imaginative advertisements / PR stunts. Oh no, now I have pictures in me head
.........OK, I'm off to JB
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From UK Airport News:
Ryanair sees winter passengers up 20 percent; Milan airport talks 'going nowhere'
"11.10.07
Ryanair's Chief Executive, Michael O'Leary, forecast today that demand during the winter season would be 20 percent greater than it was for the same period last year. He also said that talks on its proposal to fly out of Malpensa airport in northern Italy were proving unsuccessful.
Mr. O'Leary told a news conference: 'Demand in terms of passenger numbers will be strong. We expect it to grow by 20 percent over last winter.' In September the airline enjoyed passenger numbers up 23 percent on the same month last year.
On the Milan hub talks, he said: 'Two months ago [the talks on launching flights from Malpensa] were very positive and going very quickly. Now they are going nowhere.'"
Ryanair sees winter passengers up 20 percent; Milan airport talks 'going nowhere'
"11.10.07
Ryanair's Chief Executive, Michael O'Leary, forecast today that demand during the winter season would be 20 percent greater than it was for the same period last year. He also said that talks on its proposal to fly out of Malpensa airport in northern Italy were proving unsuccessful.
Mr. O'Leary told a news conference: 'Demand in terms of passenger numbers will be strong. We expect it to grow by 20 percent over last winter.' In September the airline enjoyed passenger numbers up 23 percent on the same month last year.
On the Milan hub talks, he said: 'Two months ago [the talks on launching flights from Malpensa] were very positive and going very quickly. Now they are going nowhere.'"
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Concerning its Ciampino base, FR is to appeal again:
Ryanair is to appeal against the decision of an Italian court to uphold flight cuts at Rome's Ciampino airport.
The low cost airline accused the Italian government of “unlawfully restricting the availability of low fares in the Rome market” to protect Alitalia and restricts consumer choice.
Claims made by the Italian Aviation Authority about night time noise are false, Ryanair said, adding that it does not operate any night time flights.
“These claims are utter fabrication and Ryanair calls on the European Commission to accelerate its investigation into this blatantly unlawful action by the Italian Government,” said the airline.
The low cost airline accused the Italian government of “unlawfully restricting the availability of low fares in the Rome market” to protect Alitalia and restricts consumer choice.
Claims made by the Italian Aviation Authority about night time noise are false, Ryanair said, adding that it does not operate any night time flights.
“These claims are utter fabrication and Ryanair calls on the European Commission to accelerate its investigation into this blatantly unlawful action by the Italian Government,” said the airline.
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To return to an earlier theme, I suppose that one reason why ALC was chosen as a new base is that a large new terminal building is being constructed there and AENA, the operator, will have to fill it.
On a related matter, does anyone know why FR's STN-ALC schedule shows no availability for much of the early summer?
On a related matter, does anyone know why FR's STN-ALC schedule shows no availability for much of the early summer?
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Some news about FR and CIA:
An Italian court rejected a request by Ryanair to suspend planned flight cuts at Ciampino, Rome's smaller airport, yesterday. The move is aimed at protecting national carrier Alitalia, the budget airline claims.
The airline had filed a lawsuit against Italy's aviation authority ENAC over a plan to reduce the number of flights out of Ciampino airport to 100 from 138 daily from November 1, after complaints from residents of congestion and high noise levels.
Ryanair, which has also asked the European Commission to intervene in the row, says military aircraft, rather than its flights, are to blame for the noise at night. It has also dismissed ENAC's claim that runway repairs are also a reason for the cuts, adding that restricting flights at Ciampino airport is 'unjustified'' and illegal.
The TAR regional administrative court said there were not enough elements to support Ryanair's request for a temporary injunction against the cuts while the court decides separately on the merits of the case. The date for a final decision, which could still be in Ryanair's favour, has not been set.
The planned traffic cut will force Ryanair to cancel 66 flights a week, or about 12% of its flights out of Ciampino. The Irish budget airline said in a statement it would appeal Friday's ruling.
Ryanair Chief Executive, Michael O'Leary, said in a statement: 'The TAR's failure to protect Italian consumers from this abuse of European and Italian law is very disappointing.'
'The imposition of these bogus restrictions by the Italian government will force Roman consumers to pay the higher fares charged by Alitalia, while causing significant damage to tourism in Rome.'
The airline had filed a lawsuit against Italy's aviation authority ENAC over a plan to reduce the number of flights out of Ciampino airport to 100 from 138 daily from November 1, after complaints from residents of congestion and high noise levels.
Ryanair, which has also asked the European Commission to intervene in the row, says military aircraft, rather than its flights, are to blame for the noise at night. It has also dismissed ENAC's claim that runway repairs are also a reason for the cuts, adding that restricting flights at Ciampino airport is 'unjustified'' and illegal.
The TAR regional administrative court said there were not enough elements to support Ryanair's request for a temporary injunction against the cuts while the court decides separately on the merits of the case. The date for a final decision, which could still be in Ryanair's favour, has not been set.
The planned traffic cut will force Ryanair to cancel 66 flights a week, or about 12% of its flights out of Ciampino. The Irish budget airline said in a statement it would appeal Friday's ruling.
Ryanair Chief Executive, Michael O'Leary, said in a statement: 'The TAR's failure to protect Italian consumers from this abuse of European and Italian law is very disappointing.'
'The imposition of these bogus restrictions by the Italian government will force Roman consumers to pay the higher fares charged by Alitalia, while causing significant damage to tourism in Rome.'
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Some news re. proposed long-haul airline:
Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary outlined further plans for Ryanair's potential long-haul spin-off, which he said he's considering calling 'something sexy like O'Leary Air or Ego Air' yesterday. He first mooted the idea months ago and has referred to it as a project for his retirement, but he said talks are already active with airports in the US.
Mr. O'Leary told a London press conference that although 18 airports had expressed an interest in doing business with O'Leary Air / Ego Air, with airports in the Middle East also reported to be interested, the plans would only come to fruition if the prices for long haul planes dropped by between 30 to 40 percent.
He added that the airline would be run by a completely separate company to Ryanair and would target secondary airports, just as Ryanair does in Europe. He said: 'At New York it would be Newark or Islip, it certainly wouldn't be JFK.' About 80 percent of the seats would be economy with 20 percent of its seats as a premium class, which ' they won't get for 10 bucks.'
However, Mr. O'Leary said that the venture is still years away, adding: 'It won't happen if there's isn't a downturn in the plane market over the next five years.' He said he believes that jet prices could start to fall in the next six months or so but no serious discussions are taking place with Boeing or Airbus.
Ryanair famously placed a huge order for 100 single aisle Boeing 737-800 airplanes just months after the terrorist attacks against the US on 9/11 to take advantage of falling airplane prices. It is one of the factors that has allowed Europe's biggest budget airline to keep its costs low and consistently undercut its rivals on ticket prices.
Mr. O'Leary told a London press conference that although 18 airports had expressed an interest in doing business with O'Leary Air / Ego Air, with airports in the Middle East also reported to be interested, the plans would only come to fruition if the prices for long haul planes dropped by between 30 to 40 percent.
He added that the airline would be run by a completely separate company to Ryanair and would target secondary airports, just as Ryanair does in Europe. He said: 'At New York it would be Newark or Islip, it certainly wouldn't be JFK.' About 80 percent of the seats would be economy with 20 percent of its seats as a premium class, which ' they won't get for 10 bucks.'
However, Mr. O'Leary said that the venture is still years away, adding: 'It won't happen if there's isn't a downturn in the plane market over the next five years.' He said he believes that jet prices could start to fall in the next six months or so but no serious discussions are taking place with Boeing or Airbus.
Ryanair famously placed a huge order for 100 single aisle Boeing 737-800 airplanes just months after the terrorist attacks against the US on 9/11 to take advantage of falling airplane prices. It is one of the factors that has allowed Europe's biggest budget airline to keep its costs low and consistently undercut its rivals on ticket prices.
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During the press conference in Italy, MOL has also expressed his views concerning new FR bases. "All depends on Malpensa, said O'Leary. "Originally we aimed to open yet two bases in Europe this winter, outside of Italy. We can still wait a bit and postpone the plan [to start those 2 bases], but if the agreement with Malpensa would not come true (and the chances decrease at the moment), we'll open them soon."
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And in Ireland, you are going to have an old/new 'DUMP' authority...
(BizWorld)
Michael O'Leary, chief executive of Ryanair, has rounded on the Department of Transport, calling for its closure or renaming to 'Department for Useless Monopoly Protection' (DUMP).
Michael O'Leary, chief executive of Ryanair, has rounded on the Department of Transport, calling for its closure or renaming to 'Department for Useless Monopoly Protection' (DUMP).
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Michael O'Leary likes to rename things Like destinations and airports which are not even in the same country ie Bratislava (Slovakia) as Vienna (Austria), As well as many others which are nowhere near the named advertised destination.
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BTS is only some 40miles from Vienna, how far is STN, LTN from the City of London? Pax know how far the airport is from the city, when you book your hotel ect, can't be doing too bad with 50m pax this year.
Anyway if you look on one of my BTS flights from EMA it's about 70% of who are from the BTS and the rest just on a cheap piss up, and not many of them are that interested in the culture of Vienna other than just a cheap day trip up the river. (Good spenders though, all good for my commision
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Anyway if you look on one of my BTS flights from EMA it's about 70% of who are from the BTS and the rest just on a cheap piss up, and not many of them are that interested in the culture of Vienna other than just a cheap day trip up the river. (Good spenders though, all good for my commision
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It's true that it's not all that far, but if you happen to have a visa to get into Austria, but not one that will get you into Slovakia, it could be a bit of an issue. Slovakia isn't in Schengen yet.
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Slovakia will join very soon
Slovakia's expected entrance into Schengen on January 1, 2008.
According to the memorandum, if all the required conditions are met, all ground border checks would be abolished by the end of December this year, and the air border checks by March 2008 at the latest.
After Slovakia has joined Schengen zone, all checks at internal EU borders will be abolished.
According to the memorandum, if all the required conditions are met, all ground border checks would be abolished by the end of December this year, and the air border checks by March 2008 at the latest.
After Slovakia has joined Schengen zone, all checks at internal EU borders will be abolished.
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Interesting to see all the Ryanair billboard ads across Northern Ireland highlighting their new routes from BHD.
However - why does Derry seem to be coming down with them - and not one of them mentioned the same routes are available from City Of Derry (8 miles away)?
However - why does Derry seem to be coming down with them - and not one of them mentioned the same routes are available from City Of Derry (8 miles away)?
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Glum faces at Swissport .http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news...468a20b50e.lpf
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I'm confused. Reading the article it says RYR are grounding 7 a/c and thus reducing its schedule out of STN. I hear it is also moving 1 a/c out of HHN. Are there other cutbacks at other bases? But the confusion stems from the fact that RYR is taking delivery of 'loads of a/c' during the winter months, and training loads of pilots. I know that it costs them nothing as the pilots pay their own costs and RYR even makes a profit from their training, but even so.....?????
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I am confused about the posting regarding redundancies at Stanstead through Swissport. Although I am not sure if this purely cabin crew related, I must add that I recently attended an assessment day through Swissport. At this day they mentioned they were recruiting for Ryanair and now Easyjet PSA. There were quite a few Ryanair cc applying for ground also. I was told they had been recruiting for 2 months now for the diffferent airlines, and they were holding several sessions a week. So it seems that once again one hand does not know what the other is doing, or there appears to be a large hole predominantly in PSA.
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Ryanair Launch
Hello all,
Does anyone know when the based BHD FR aircraft will arrive? I expect tomorrow sometime in preparation for Tuesday. Does anyone know where it will arrive in from ie DUB or STN or where. Would be nice to know if anyone has any info ...
Does anyone know when the based BHD FR aircraft will arrive? I expect tomorrow sometime in preparation for Tuesday. Does anyone know where it will arrive in from ie DUB or STN or where. Would be nice to know if anyone has any info ...
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It will arrive this evening in preparation for tomorrows 06.30 departure from whence I don`t know.
It`s gonnal be an interesting week as the city is already creeking at the seams. I`m sure it will be great pr if a Ryanair has to hold on the ground for 20mins before it gets a stand!! Let the fun begin!!
It`s gonnal be an interesting week as the city is already creeking at the seams. I`m sure it will be great pr if a Ryanair has to hold on the ground for 20mins before it gets a stand!! Let the fun begin!!