Ryanair - 7

[Jamie2k9]

Recently Ryanair said they wanted to expand into Turkey. I'd expact this for summer 11. DUB will be in the running for LAC. as there are only 2 chartered flights a week.

[OliWW]

Don't think its many UK flights out to LCA just yet... Palma, Las Palmas, Almeria, Tenerife, Fuerteventura and Marrakech are all being looked at as new bases

[apaul]

Why is tonight's Newsnight giving O'Leary a platform to spout his usual verbal diarrhea? With another travel firm going bust they could have chosen a topical subject instead of inflicting O'Leary's predictable bull on the nation.

[racedo]

I found it quite funny especially when he call Kirsty "love".

When asked was he in the market for buying another airline the response was "we growing enough on our own not to need to buy another airline and someone else's problems".

[Steviec9]

4 new routes for LGW; to OPO, BLQ, BGY and FAO with RYG going up to 10 flights/week.

New routes not yet bookable/no timetable. Which aircraft will operate these?

[Jamie2k9]

All the routes to/from LGW are operated from the destination bases.

[Jamie2k9]

Ryanair want to use LAC to offer flights to Israel and the Middle East.

Ryanair about to make Cyprus landing - Cyprus Mail

[dwlpl]

That article 'suggests' a change in strategy to create a hub.

Thirdly, the source said that Ryanair’s idea of using Cyprus as a hub for routes to and from various shorter-range European destinations, such as Stockholm, Milan, Pisa, Marseille, Barcelona and Dusseldorf – but also Israel and the Middle East – “had matured”.

[Jamie2k9]

There is also 2 new routes which are not operated by anouther airline.

[LGW_08R]

RE: FR at LGW

After compiling the latest timetable together and looking at it, it looks to me as if Gatwick still has some more routes to come. I came to this conclusion after looking at the Oporto flight.There is not yet any arrival of an aircraft to operate this flight before hand. This means one of two things, either Gatwick is getting a based aircraft or, a W route is to operate to OPO flights, but the origin route has yet to be announced.

Deps
0940 Dublin FR113 1234567
1010 Madrid FR5302 1234567
1130 Oporto FR1016 1_3_567
1205 Alicante FR5563 1234567
1205 Shannon FR1183 1234567
1300 Rygge FR1396 1234567
1335 Dublin FR115 1234567
1450 Cork FR9853 1234567
1450 Kaunas FR2746 1234567
1525 Girona FR9229 1234567
1555 Seville FR5253 _2_4_6_
1610 Dublin FR1113 1234567
1645 Ciampino FR9699 1234567
1725 Faro FR1108 1_3_5_7
1810 Dublin FR117 1234567
1900 Rygge FR1185 ___4_67
2005 Skavsta FR7729 1234567
2010 Bologna FR2006 1_34_6_
2045 Begamo FR4799 1234567
2100 Madrid FR5372 1234567
2155 Dublin FR119 1234567

Arrs
0910 Dublin FR112 1234567
0940 Madrid FR5301 1234567
1130 Alicante FR5562 1234567
1135 Shannon FR1182 1234567
1230 Rygge FR1397 1234567
1310 Dublin FR114 1234567
1420 Cork FR9852 1234567
1425 Kaunas FR2747 1234567
1455 Girona FR9228 1234567
1530 Seville FR5252 _2_4_6_
1535 Dublin FR1112 1234567
1620 Ciampino FR9698 1234567
1635 Oporto FR1015 1_3_567
1655 Faro FR1107 1_3_5_7
1740 Dublin FR116 1234567
1835 Rygge FR1184 ___4_67
1925 Bologna FR2007 1_34_6_
1940 Skavsta FR7728 1234567
2015 Bergamo FR4798 1234567
2035 Madrid FR5371 1234567
2130 Dublin FR118 1234567

Also, following on from the Cyprus talk. Surely if Ryanair is using Gatwick as a bargaining tool against STN, then it would make no sense whatsoever to announce the following day of new routes to Stansted?

8R

[pee]

The first route to/from Larnaca will originate in Belgium (CRL), but certainly more to come.

[Jamie2k9]

When Ryanair put routes on sale the day after they announce them that dosn't mean they will stay at that time. Over the next few days they will have to change the Porto timetable. If the route is to be operated from another base it will be most lightly be from the Dublin Based aircraft.

I think a Base in LGW is not to far away either. A while back Ryanair said they would move rotues from LSTN to LGW and they have.

[Telstar]

Israel flights?

What about traffic rights? Can an Irish registered aircraft fly from Larnaca to Israel?

[Skipness One Echo]

I think a Base in LGW is not to far away either. A while back Ryanair said they would move rotues from LSTN to LGW and they have.

Your logic doesn't follow. Big market but little room in the morning to get the based aircraft away between the based EZY, BA and IT madness. The FR slots at LGW work quite well on W patterns. Can't see them basing there but that's not the same thing as saying they won't grow the business big time at LGW.

[LGW_08R]

Well that was a problem before yesterday, and still kind of is. But with Kiss Flights gone, 4 Viking nightstopers wont be on the ramp anymore? I doubt this space will last long, but theres opportunity there.

[Charlie Roy]

Larnaca

A second Larnaca route will be announced soon, but the current agreement between Ryanair and the Larnaca Airport excludes the possibility of a London route.

Financialmirror.com News - Ryanair to bring 30,000 tourists from Belgium to Cyprus

[positive]

I'm sure Ryanair are looking at Dublin to Larnaca flights at a possible twice weekly service their row over the landing charges at Dublin will not stop them starting a route if there's money to be made,both Dublin to Turin and Salzburg are back for the winter ski season.

[Jamie2k9]

Dublin will be high on Ryanair's list of LAC routes as they will get 100% discount on charges at Dublin Airport once the route starts before December 31 2010. The reason for this is that no other airline flyes the route except for 2 weekly charters during the summer months which don't count. The route only has to operate twice weekly to get the discount.

Year 1 - 100% discount
Year 2 - 75% discount
Year 3 - 50% discount

[pee]

There is a press conference scheduled for today in Tampere. "The growth of traffic and further developments in Finland", possibly a new route announcement.
At long last, if something new is really coming, of course. Recently even Finnair's Vehviläinen has publicly expressed his satisfaction as "Finland (Finnair) has suffered less damage" [due to the minimal presence of lcc's/Ryanair here]. Especially when compared to Sweden , of course.

[boyzinblue]

Any chance of Ryanair flying to Magdeburg/Cochstedt, half way between Berlin and Hannover? The airport will start with a few charters this winter but report that 2 new carriers will operate from March 2011.