Ryanair - 7

[ICING AOA]

fresh rumors about Paris beauvais to become a base...

[compton3bravo]

Ryanair At Malaga

I doubt very much you will see a Madrid service as there are three airlines on the route and there is an excellent high speed rail link which runs on time and is quite cheap and has taken many passengers from the airlines. Also disagree with the Finnish population around Malaga it is the British I am afraid which is second after the Spanish followed by Moroccans and Romanians.

[pee]

Also disagree with the Finnish population around Malaga it is the British I am afraid which is second after the Spanish followed by Moroccans and Romanians.

You are right. It was based on Finnish sources, but Spanish sources say: "Población Inmigrante en Málaga" Reino Unido Total 62.558. Without any doubts, UK people are much ahead. A well-chosen route in spite of that.

[Jippie]

Charlie Roy, Eindhoven won't be a base untill they have more relaxed opening hours. Ryanair have said this numerous times and I think it's that easy, yes they like Eindhoven(look at the number of routes and growth) but Ryanair can't profitably operate a base with the current opening hours.
However, in Holland there's work going om to change some regulation to make Schiphol less crowded(or grow slower) and I think when that goes into effect, Eindhoven will have better opening hours and Ryanai will start a base. Maybe march 2011?

[MUFC_fan]

fresh rumors about Paris beauvais to become a base...

Longest running Ryanair rumour?

About bl**dy time!

[Nakata77]

what about BOH expansion?

will BOH get a 2nd and 3rd aircraft in 2010?

[DILLTHEDOG]

At the rate Ryanair are opening bases in Mainland Europe, I doubt they will need UK Bases at all !

I flew into BOH a couple of weeks ago and there were 3 RYR parked up !

It would be better for BOH if it was a mixture of operators rather then a Ryanair Stronghold.

[Seljuk22]

Other rumour: a new base in Central/Eastern Europe will be announced mid January.
KRK, WRO, RIX, BTS...

[eu01]

Just ONE of the above-mentioned, you mean?
The best chances seem to have 1.KRK, 2.BTS, but I'd not put my bet yet.

[potash]

fue

FR
FR to announce fue flights to day 18 dec 12.30 pm from puerta del rosario uk flights to follow later date

[Cyrano]

Ryanair ends talks with Boeing

From today's Irish Times:

Ryanair ends talks with Boeing
CHARLIE TAYLOR

Ryanair confirmed this morning it has terminated negotiations with Boeing for an order of up to 200 new B737-800 series aircraft for delivery between 2013 and 2016 .

The airline said the breakdown in negotiations will not effect its plans to take delivery of 112 B737-800 aircraft during the next three years.

The announcement was expected after Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary said earlier this week that a deal was unlikely because the US plane manufacturer wanted to change the delivery conditions.

Mr O’Leary has previously warned that in the absence of an agreement with Boeing, Ryanair would “change course” and slow its growth post-2012 – at which point it expects to be carrying 90 million passengers – and distribute cash to shareholders.

In a statement this morning, Mr Michael O’Leary said while the airline had reached agreement with Boeing on pricing the plane manufacturer "was unwilling to incorporate some other terms and conditions from our existing agreement into this new aircraft order."

Ryanair has made clear to Boeing that we will not order aircraft if we believe that either the pricing or the other contractual terms and conditions will be inferior to those which we currently enjoy, as this would not be a wise or sensible use of shareholders funds," he said.

The airline said it does not intend to reopen discussions with Boeing or any other aircraft manufacturers.

"We will focus our efforts on maintaining Ryanair’s strong traffic and new route growth into 2010 and we look forward to briefing shareholders in the first quarter of the New Year with a revised strategy which will comprise much reduced capital expenditures through 2011 and 2012, thereby generating substantial surplus cash balances for distribution during the period 2012-2015," said Mr O'Leary.

"I believe it is appropriate to return these surplus funds to shareholders, if we cannot use them to purchase aircraft on terms which enable us to meet our demanding return on capital targets," he added.

[Powerjet1]

From The AirDB

Restarted:Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura (FUE) to Dublin (DUB)
Restarted:Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura (FUE) to Hahn, Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN)
Restarted:Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura (FUE) to Liverpool, John Lennon (LPL)
Restarted:Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura (FUE) to Dusseldorf, Weeze (NRN)
Restarted:Hahn, Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN) to Forli, Luigi Ridolfi (FRL)
New:Bergamo, Orio Al Serio (BGY) to (ILD)
New:Bournemouth, International (BOH) to Ibiza (IBZ)
New:Bournemouth, International (BOH) to Gudja, Malta International (MLA)
New:Bournemouth, International (BOH) to Valencia (VLC)
New:Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura (FUE) to Bergamo, Orio Al Serio (BGY)
New:Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura (FUE) to Bournemouth, International (BOH)
New:Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura (FUE) to Brussels, Charleroi Brussels South (CRL)
New:Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura (FUE) to Madrid, Barajas (MAD)
New:Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura (FUE) to Glasgow, Prestwick (PIK)
New:Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura (FUE) to Pisa, Galileo Galilei (PSA)
New:Hahn, Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN) to (ILD)
New:Ibiza (IBZ) to Birmingham, International (BHX)
New:London, Stansted (STN) to Trapani, Birgi (TPS)

[pee]

Returning to Forli, really? And what is ILD?

[boyzinblue]

ILD is Lleida and a new destination. It is very close to Reus.

[Seljuk22]

Lleida (Spaniards call it Lerida) has 120.000 inhabitants and it is located between Zaragoza and Barcelone.
HHN-Lleida 2 weekly starts 2nd April.
FR has/had some curios routes from HHN: Lleida (only other route to BGY), Forli (up to now no other FR flights to FRL) or Osijek (last summer).

[Whiskey Papa]

Ryanair pulls out of Boeing Deal

200 B738 cancelled by FR, BBC reports

[D O Guerrero]

The aircraft haven't been cancelled. They were never ordered in the first place. Boeing won't play ball and reduce the price to a pound each...

[TheBeak]

And they wont be ordered because they can't re-sell their older aircraft. Ryanairs business model will suffer heavily - they rely upon buying for less than they sell. This company will get it where the chicken got the axe.

[kick the tires]

He (MOL) said the two partners had agreed pricing on the 200 aircraft, but that Boeing was unwilling to include some other terms and conditions that his company enjoyed in existing contracts.

How does that work then? You agree a price but then say, oh actually I want a bit more thrown in! What? you are not willing to do that? Phew, great, right, I have an excuse to cancel a contract that I dont want!

Well done Boeing. More and more Companies and Airports are standing up to RYR and their bully boy, I'm god's gift, you can have my business if I let you, arrogant tactics.

BBC News - Ryanair pulls out of Boeing deal for 200 aircraft

[BoeingMEL]

Are you sure Mr Beak?

Is it not true that MOL buys the 737s personally and then sells them on to FR? If true (as widely and previously reported), it's difficult to see how they could be sold at a profit....IMHO Cheers bm