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Old 27th Aug 2010, 00:07
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Ryanair are due to announce a second route from LCA which will also start in November shortly so they may wait until this happons. There will be no LCA route to London with FR.
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I'm wondering when flights to PIK after end of october will become bookable again...
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Old 27th Aug 2010, 07:28
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Originally Posted by rewdan
can anyone give me a brief explanation why the direct flights from STN to IBZ have been cancelled. There are a lot of expats who have been let down and are unsure why.
While I'm sure it's very frustrating to lose a direct service to the UK, Ryanair is not a public service operator and will have made this decision on purely commercial grounds. They are a for-profit company and have no obligation to ex-pats anywhere.
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Old 27th Aug 2010, 08:30
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Agree they are a for profit company but a bad experience with a failure on their booking engine last week that left my brother €150 out of pocket makes me wonder how long their bottom line will continue to defy the 'Once bitten twice shy' phrase?
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I'm wondering when flights to PIK after end of october will become bookable again...
They should be bookable around December or January.
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I'm wondering when flights to PIK after end of october will become bookable again...
Er....from where? Glad Jamie says you should see the flights, though quite how he works this out has yet to be established as Ryanair are withdrawing City routes from PIK and moving them across to EDI leaving PIK with the sun routes for shiny white Glaswegians to tempt skin cancer with.
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Er....from where?
All Italian origins
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Rome and Gothnburg will be axed for good. As EDI doesn't have Milan BGY it may return but not lightly. Pisa should return but not sure.

Ryanair's next flights to LCA will be from Stockholm or Madrid shortly. Ryanair are not allowed to launch flights from the UK as this was part of the deal.

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Old 27th Aug 2010, 13:24
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Rome and Gothnburg will be axed for good. As EDI doesn't have Milan BGY it may return but not lightly. Pisa should return but not sure.
What's your source Jamie?
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Old 27th Aug 2010, 13:59
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A while back Ryanair said they were focasing on EDI as they charges were low.

Brussels being droped as the route was increased from EDI
It's not a route which would be seasonal.

Gothenburg was on sale but as soon as EDI got the route it was dropped.

Paris BVA being reduced to 3 weekly was 7 last winter from PIK as EDI will now have 4 weely this winter.

Ryanair are withdrawing City routes from PIK and moving them across to EDI leaving PIK with the sun routes
Have you a source????
Last I herd Rome, Milan & Gothenburg were cities.
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A while back Ryanair said they were focasing on EDI as they charges were low.
Hi Jamie, actually they fly for next to nothing from PIK but the market is bigger from EDI, this decision wasn't only made on cost. Can you link to a Ryanair statement confirming this? I'm not saying you're wrong, I just don't recall this ever being stated.

Brussels being droped as the route was increased from EDI
It's not a route which would be seasonal.

Gothenburg was on sale but as soon as EDI got the route it was dropped.

Paris BVA being reduced to 3 weekly was 7 last winter from PIK as EDI will now have 4 weely this winter.
My point is that FR seldom "announce" a route is dropped so a lot of what is said on here is assumption and conjecture stated as "fact" if you like.

The "city routes" perfom much better from EDI due to a strong inbound market that Ayrshire cannot match. This is why these routes are moving across the the East Coast. Given that Prestwick started off with the likes of
Brussels, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Paris and Rome as city destinations it's pretty clear that the focus for these kind of routes has moved as most have either been drastically reduced or removed as an option from PIK.

New destinations from PIK have tended to be more traditional Scottish holiday routes.
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Old 27th Aug 2010, 15:04
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"We are still obviously committed to Prestwick, but we are working very closely with Edinburgh airport and of course they offered us very good charges which for us is of key relevance."
From BBC

Ah I see. They're not *lower* than PIK but they'll be on a better deal than easyJet at EDI that's for sure! Thanks, that's clearer now.
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Old 27th Aug 2010, 17:05
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A while ago O'Leary has said something that there was a plan for a ICA Ryanair (Intercontinental). Some inside information someone?
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50 777s penciled in from 2014. You heard it here first
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Old 27th Aug 2010, 18:54
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so can you tell me the reason or basis for pulling the STN IBZ winter run?
thanks
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Old 27th Aug 2010, 19:52
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so can you tell me the reason or basis for pulling the STN IBZ winter run?
thanks
The definitive answer could probably only come from Ryanair themselves, rather than from a public forum, where you'd get at best educated guesswork / speculation.

Are there no other airlines who fly STN - IBZ? (eg. Easyjet, Thomas Cook, Thomsonfly etc.)
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Old 27th Aug 2010, 20:34
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50 777s penciled in from 2014. You heard it here first
Yawn! This rumour is as old as the hills. It's a publicity stunt, just like charging for the toilet in flight. Not likely to happen.
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Old 28th Aug 2010, 09:43
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Are there no other airlines who fly STN - IBZ? (eg. Easyjet, Thomas Cook, Thomsonfly etc.)
There are certianly no winter charters, and I doubt EZY do either

The reason is probably why FR have axed their winter flights. Demand to the Balearics in winter is very low and a hard market to make work. So Spanish mainland links for the locals may do OK, and Air Berlin's PMI hub keeps going, but point 2 point routes to mainland europe are a lot harder to sustain

As a comparison Jet 2 don't serve PMI in winter, Thomas Cook don't. Thomson only do in a limited way, Monarch scheduled are only launching their first winter PMI flights this year. While for Menorca their only UK link in winter is Monarch
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Old 28th Aug 2010, 10:27
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Air H.

Some years ago Monarch (ZB), operated flights to pmi, through the winter from Manchester. My last booking with them on a winter trip to pmi was cancelled by them
due to operation reasons (lack of numbers). I have booked for November with them,
but holding back on further bookings to make sure the new flights dont suffer the same fate.

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