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MOL threatening to pull out of Marseilles in October...
Marseille | Ryanair menace de quitter Marseille | La Provence
The usual spat about staff contracts
Marseille | Ryanair menace de quitter Marseille | La Provence
The usual spat about staff contracts
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OK how about a 4 night break:
Going Out: 26/07/2010 11:55hrs
Tampere - Malaga
1 x Adult 143.99 EUR
Taxes/Fees 20.98 EUR
1 x Web Check in 5.00 EUR
Coming Back: 30/07/2010 06:00hrs
Malaga - Tampere
1 x Adult 143.99 EUR
Taxes/Fees 31.54 EUR
1 x Web Check in 5.00 EUR
Total Cost 350.50 EUR
What percentage of passengers use this duration? Focus on the point.
Tampere - Malaga
1 x Adult 143.99 EUR
Taxes/Fees 20.98 EUR
1 x Web Check in 5.00 EUR
Coming Back: 30/07/2010 06:00hrs
Malaga - Tampere
1 x Adult 143.99 EUR
Taxes/Fees 31.54 EUR
1 x Web Check in 5.00 EUR
Total Cost 350.50 EUR
What percentage of passengers use this duration? Focus on the point.
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"À la mi-mars, à Marignane, les locaux de Ryanair ont été perquisitionnés et plusieurs documents saisis. Air France et deux syndicats de l'aviation civile, l'Unac et le SNPL ont porté plainte contre la compagnie irlandaise."
...staff contracts... yes, but based on what I would call a turf battle and protectionism....
OK, AF and the others are right to moan, but isn;t a bit of tilting at windmills....?
...staff contracts... yes, but based on what I would call a turf battle and protectionism....
OK, AF and the others are right to moan, but isn;t a bit of tilting at windmills....?
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News : Ireland Loses Ryanair Hangar and up to 200 Jobs to Germany and?
Ireland Loses Ryanair Hangar and up to 200 Jobs to Germany and Frankfurt Hahn Airport
Ryanair today (Thursday, 20th May) announced that it had selected Frankfurt Hahn Airport in Germany as the location for its next maintenance hangar and crew training facility. At a press conference in Mainz today, hosted by Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary and Minister for Economics and Transport, Hendrik Hering, Ryanair announced that it would invest €25m in building a new two bay aircraft maintenance hangar including two aircraft simulators and a 16 room cabin crew training centre, in a move which will create up to 200 new Ryanair jobs at Frankfurt Hahn Airport.
This investment which has been supported by Frankfurt Hahn Airport and the Rhineland-Palatinate Government will take Ryanair’s jobs numbers at Frankfurt Hahn up to 600 people. Ryanair will now allocate a substantial proportion of its base maintenance requirements to this new German hangar facility which will be available from the end of 2010.
This new facility and jobs will replace those previously offered to the Irish Government earlier this year in the empty Hangar 6 at Dublin Airport. Ryanair regrets that even today, many months later, Hangar 6 remains unused for base maintenance, while up to 900 SRT Engineers remain unemployed, drawing the dole. Many of these people could have found skilled, well paid work, with Ryanair, had the Irish Government accepted the airline’s offer to buy or lease Hangar 6 and divert a significant proportion of Ryanair’s base maintenance to Dublin Airport.
Speaking today in Germany, Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary said:
“While we are pleased to announce this new investment in Germany and Frankfurt Hahn Airport, I regret that the Irish Government stood idly by and did nothing to win these new jobs for Ireland. The Irish Government talks a lot about competitiveness, but is short on action.
“At a time when traffic and tourism is collapsing in Ireland, the Irish Government prefers to impose tourist taxes, and order big increases in Dublin Airport’s fees, rather than work with the world’s largest airline to lower access costs, win investment in maintenance or create hundreds of well paid engineering jobs at Dublin Airport.
“Sadly in Ireland, we are stuck with a Government which likes talking about the “smart economy” but prefers implementing “dumb policy”. The sooner they reverse these tourist taxes and slash high costs at the Government owned DAA airports, then the sooner Irish airports and tourism can return to low cost access and traffic growth”.
Ireland Loses Ryanair Hangar and up to 200 Jobs to Germany and Frankfurt Hahn Airport
Ryanair today (Thursday, 20th May) announced that it had selected Frankfurt Hahn Airport in Germany as the location for its next maintenance hangar and crew training facility. At a press conference in Mainz today, hosted by Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary and Minister for Economics and Transport, Hendrik Hering, Ryanair announced that it would invest €25m in building a new two bay aircraft maintenance hangar including two aircraft simulators and a 16 room cabin crew training centre, in a move which will create up to 200 new Ryanair jobs at Frankfurt Hahn Airport.
This investment which has been supported by Frankfurt Hahn Airport and the Rhineland-Palatinate Government will take Ryanair’s jobs numbers at Frankfurt Hahn up to 600 people. Ryanair will now allocate a substantial proportion of its base maintenance requirements to this new German hangar facility which will be available from the end of 2010.
This new facility and jobs will replace those previously offered to the Irish Government earlier this year in the empty Hangar 6 at Dublin Airport. Ryanair regrets that even today, many months later, Hangar 6 remains unused for base maintenance, while up to 900 SRT Engineers remain unemployed, drawing the dole. Many of these people could have found skilled, well paid work, with Ryanair, had the Irish Government accepted the airline’s offer to buy or lease Hangar 6 and divert a significant proportion of Ryanair’s base maintenance to Dublin Airport.
Speaking today in Germany, Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary said:
“While we are pleased to announce this new investment in Germany and Frankfurt Hahn Airport, I regret that the Irish Government stood idly by and did nothing to win these new jobs for Ireland. The Irish Government talks a lot about competitiveness, but is short on action.
“At a time when traffic and tourism is collapsing in Ireland, the Irish Government prefers to impose tourist taxes, and order big increases in Dublin Airport’s fees, rather than work with the world’s largest airline to lower access costs, win investment in maintenance or create hundreds of well paid engineering jobs at Dublin Airport.
“Sadly in Ireland, we are stuck with a Government which likes talking about the “smart economy” but prefers implementing “dumb policy”. The sooner they reverse these tourist taxes and slash high costs at the Government owned DAA airports, then the sooner Irish airports and tourism can return to low cost access and traffic growth”.
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I am sure you cant compare skilled aircraft engineering jobs with work in MacDonalds. The people who will be working in the new 3 bay hangar at Prestwick certainly wont think so and I am sure the Irish lads who will miss out in this investment may get the unfortunate chance to find out.
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Just goes to show how little you actually know about ryanair.. . . your a joker mate.
I know many people who have been in ryanair for over 6 years. Ryanair is starting to keep crew longer and longer and it really depends on what base you go. The local bases like PIK/EMA/MAD/RUE have crews who are from that area, and stay within the company. And pay, how do you know. It just takes time for crews to move to home bases. I mean if you look at the transfer list for MAD and mmany other spanish/italian its can take upto two years. Im very happy with my pay, I must admit the two years pay freeze
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I dont know why people come on here to ryanair bash, i know i wouldnt get away, calling other airlines. And comments like yours with no information to back it just shows how very little you know.
On a final note, 73 million pax, and making a profit.
I know many people who have been in ryanair for over 6 years. Ryanair is starting to keep crew longer and longer and it really depends on what base you go. The local bases like PIK/EMA/MAD/RUE have crews who are from that area, and stay within the company. And pay, how do you know. It just takes time for crews to move to home bases. I mean if you look at the transfer list for MAD and mmany other spanish/italian its can take upto two years. Im very happy with my pay, I must admit the two years pay freeze
. . . .I dont know why people come on here to ryanair bash, i know i wouldnt get away, calling other airlines. And comments like yours with no information to back it just shows how very little you know.
On a final note, 73 million pax, and making a profit.
Closing boarding very early
I've noticed sometimes with Ryanair, that assuming the inbound arrives early (and thus the bulk of passengers for the outbound are boarded early as well), that the doors of the plane are often closed up to 20 minutes before scheduled departure. Pushback from the gate doesn't however occur until the scheduled time of departure.
I can understand that if a plane lands particularly early at the destination airport simply because it took off early (and not because of tailwinds), then there may be penalty payments involved for making ATC rearrange a landing slot at short notice. I understand also, that no pilot wishes to spend time circling in the air burning fuel just to avoid paying penalties to ATC. Thus, the likelihood of departing significantly earlier than planned is unlikely.
What does puzzle me, is as to why a dispatcher / handling agent would close boarding (and withdraw the steps / buses) so early that it's completed far in advance of the anticipated schedule, even if the 2 pilots can't benefit from the time saving. The only things I can think of are
1) Dispatcher fancies going home early / spend more time chatting with colleagues in the office
2) Handling agent staff are on significant commission on the passengers who arrive at the gate only 20 mins before departure and end up paying a hefty fee to get rebooked on the next flight.
Can anyone more knowledgable than me provide the rationale behind this ?
I can understand that if a plane lands particularly early at the destination airport simply because it took off early (and not because of tailwinds), then there may be penalty payments involved for making ATC rearrange a landing slot at short notice. I understand also, that no pilot wishes to spend time circling in the air burning fuel just to avoid paying penalties to ATC. Thus, the likelihood of departing significantly earlier than planned is unlikely.
What does puzzle me, is as to why a dispatcher / handling agent would close boarding (and withdraw the steps / buses) so early that it's completed far in advance of the anticipated schedule, even if the 2 pilots can't benefit from the time saving. The only things I can think of are
1) Dispatcher fancies going home early / spend more time chatting with colleagues in the office
2) Handling agent staff are on significant commission on the passengers who arrive at the gate only 20 mins before departure and end up paying a hefty fee to get rebooked on the next flight.
Can anyone more knowledgable than me provide the rationale behind this ?
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davidjohnson, it will always remain the captains decision and the cabin crews action to close the forward entry of the aircraft.
If they are really able to finish the boarding process with all the associated paperwork 20 minutes early (lucky them!) they are free to go.
Any delays thereafter can have various reasons (slot, finishing checks or briefings) - and are totally random.
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If they are really able to finish the boarding process with all the associated paperwork 20 minutes early (lucky them!) they are free to go.
Any delays thereafter can have various reasons (slot, finishing checks or briefings) - and are totally random.
FA10
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We tend to close doors early if possible to so that we can be pushed back at -5 or before. Today I was actually in the air on or before the SDT 
. But the gate will not close before -20.
. But the gate will not close before -20.
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Boarding should start from -40 (assembly, PB Q, Hand Luggage check). Preboard into secure area once aircraft is on stand. Board immeadiatly. Gate can shut from -20 if possible (remembering the boarding pass clearly states the gate CLOSING time as -30mins STD) and the minimum any flight deck can push back if passengers missing is -10. This is to ensure aircraft rotation remains punctual throughout the aircraft's 6-10 sector day.
Normal FR turnaround would see doors shut -5 STD for an ontime pushback from the gate.
Its actually all to add to the highly efficient business model of remaining one of the most punctual airlines in Europe rather then someone fancies to clock off early!! Nice idea though.
Normal FR turnaround would see doors shut -5 STD for an ontime pushback from the gate.
Its actually all to add to the highly efficient business model of remaining one of the most punctual airlines in Europe rather then someone fancies to clock off early!! Nice idea though.
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I've been on one Ryanair flight to Charleroi that closed the doors 20 mins early, pushed back 5 minutes later and went airborne still 10 minutes before STD. Was surprised to see such an efficient turn-around, but captain said flight would take longer than expected, so it was really nice to be able to leave earlier. Landed only 5 mins early.
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Mayday! Mayday! FUEL EMERGENCY!
Aviation Herald...
Incident: Ryanair B738 at Alicante and Valencia on May 14th 2010, fuel emergency
A Ryanair Boeing 737-800, registration EI-DYX performing flight FR-8384 from London Stansted,EN (UK) to Alicante,SP (Spain), was on approach to Alicante's runway 10 but went around due to weather conditions. The crew subsequently attempted an approach to runway 28 but went around again due to winds and decided to divert to Valencia (72nm north of Alicante) declaring PAN being below the final fuel reserve. While on approach to Valencia the crew declared MAYDAY and performed a safe landing on Valencia's runway 12.
The Spanish CIAIAC reported, that following the landing in Valencia remaining fuel was measured: 440kg of fuel were found in tank 1, 470kg in tank2 and 0kg in center tank. The airplane was refueled and continued to Alicante. An investigation has been initiated.
The airplane reached Alicante with a delay of 2:25 hours.
Incident: Ryanair B738 at Alicante and Valencia on May 14th 2010, fuel emergency
A Ryanair Boeing 737-800, registration EI-DYX performing flight FR-8384 from London Stansted,EN (UK) to Alicante,SP (Spain), was on approach to Alicante's runway 10 but went around due to weather conditions. The crew subsequently attempted an approach to runway 28 but went around again due to winds and decided to divert to Valencia (72nm north of Alicante) declaring PAN being below the final fuel reserve. While on approach to Valencia the crew declared MAYDAY and performed a safe landing on Valencia's runway 12.
The Spanish CIAIAC reported, that following the landing in Valencia remaining fuel was measured: 440kg of fuel were found in tank 1, 470kg in tank2 and 0kg in center tank. The airplane was refueled and continued to Alicante. An investigation has been initiated.
The airplane reached Alicante with a delay of 2:25 hours.