Ryanair - 8

[lexoncd]

suddenly found I have a few days of leave to use up next week so I thought I would see what was available at a decent price. Considering Brussels for xmas markets or possibly Limoges and a bit of plonk and possibly nicer autumn weather.

So initially I looked at options from manchester...entered the captcha? letters...what a pain...then seeing nothing of real interest looked at Liverpool..then prompted for Captcha again...and again so then i thought Birmingham to Limoges.. again Captcha...well I've had enough of that so looked elsewhere and booked...

If it helps MOL I got fed up of using a credit card online where you have an additional security check of remembering an additional password that for all my travel/online I use one without....I guarantee it will be dropped shortly when conversion rates drop significantly from the casual browser who is tempted by looking at a range of offers...

[Jamie2k9]

Girona flights on sale for next summer.

[francisco_lb]

PMI?

Hi Jamie,

Do u have any news about PMI? Many things are listening about it but nothing yet.

Regards
FLB

[boyzinblue]

Magdeburg Cochstedt now only showing Girona for Summer 2012. Malaga, Alicante und Las Palmas have been dropped.

[pee]

Ryanair has dropped its plans to create its base in Riga in the near future. In contrary, the number of flights to RIX will be reduced (by 30%) and few routes will be terminated. As announced, Ryanair will cancel its flights to Brussels CRL, Bremen and Tampere.

Ryanair calculates that the airport will lose approximately 300,000 passengers.

The decision comes after the introduction of new security fees at Riga International Airport.

[Cyrano]

Dole-Oporto

Originally Posted by jferreira20

eu01.

A lot of people will use the route. There is an enormous portuguese community in France and Switzerland.

I think much of the traffic will indeed be VFR. And while all passengers may be equal as far as Ryanair is concerned, a largely-VFR traffic is surely less interesting for local Dole-region tourism bodies/local authorities, who are apparently funding this new route to the tune of EUR15 per passenger according to this French press report.

After all, it's one thing for the local authorities to be able to justify a subsidy for Ryanair on the basis that it's bringing lots of inbound tourists who will stay in hotels, go to restaurants, buy second homes and generally boost the local economy - but surely this route will be mostly bringing members of the Portuguese community in France back to Portugal on holiday (i.e. economic loss to the Dole region), and Portuguese people to visit their friends and relatives in France (not particularly lucrative for the region). Or am I missing something?

[GnRdL]

Originally Posted by pee

Ryanair has dropped its plans to create its base in Riga in the near future. In contrary, the number of flights to RIX will be reduced (by 30%) and few routes will be terminated. As announced, Ryanair will cancel its flights to Brussels CRL, Bremen and Tampere.

Ryanair calculates that the airport will lose approximately 300,000 passengers.

The decision comes after the introduction of new security fees at Riga International Airport.

Ryanair has lost its way... due to an aditional cost of 50ct / passenger.

Regarding the captcha, I argue that Ryanair fares are less competitive and in several cases more expensive. My example, flying with Jetairfly the same day and at the same airport, 10 euros cheaper and 20kg bag included.

[Jorik]

Groningen Airport Eelde (Netherlands)

The Dutch government will take a decision in December/January about the extension of the runway at Groningen Airport Eelde in Northern Netherlands from 1800m to 2500m. Works could start end of summer 2012. Talks between GAE and Ryanair are ongoing as a 2500m runway would allow Ryanair to operate to every destination they serve. It's very likely that Ryanair will return to Groningen when the extension is completed.

There are also talks with Wizz Air, Arkefly and Cityjet to start operating from Groningen and with Transavia and Corendon to increase the number of flights there.

[Bengt]

Tactical mistakes by Ryanair?

Two things have disturbed me and at least one of them has cost Ryanair some revenue.
The issue with Girona that caused them to postpone the loading of the summer schedule (summer in March, never mind...) made me book my planned flights (for easter, May and July) with Spanair instead. I am probably not the only one, but my family alone spent around € 1700 for those flights (three return flights, three people). These were not € 10 flights, probably more like € 40 + fees per flight and person....
Secondly the reCaptcha is really p---ing me off. I often browse thorugh different flights, both for looking for a specific flight but also looking for inspiration. I have not suffered from any delays when looking at schedules earlier but I really hate to try to read the strange words and this takes time....
Other businesses tries to make the order process as easy for the user as possible...
I honestly think this will hurt Ryanair's bottom line within quite a short horizon, I also doubt that the risk of letting screen scrapers publish Ryanair's prices would be so high. At the end people will book Ryanair anyway, even if it is through a third party.

[WJ888]

@ pee: According to Ryanair to reduce the number of flights from Riga by 30% :: The Baltic Course | Baltic States news & analytics not Brussels/Charleroi, but Bristol will be cancelled.

[Noxegon]

Though I hesitate to add a me too style post, I bought a trip from Dublin to London today; after two failed attempts at the captcha on Ryanair.com I decided not to investigate that route any further and bought a BMI flight into Heathrow instead. I think this captcha may actually hurt FR more than they realise.

[j636]

With UK APD going up in April and passengers who have booked will have to pay the extra before boarding the flights, are Ryanair going to absorb the increase to passengers who have all ready booked? Will they cut from the UK next summer, as said above looks like EMA losing an aircraft and how much is it going up by?

[pee]

With UK APD going up in April

With UK APD going up, I'd rather try to please customers by doing EVERYTHING possible for them to convince them to continue flying with the airline, certainly not by disturbing the bookings.

According to The Baltic Course not Brussels/Charleroi, but Bristol will be cancelled.

According to (all) Latvian sources Bristol, according to (all) Finnish sources (Elina Hakkarainen/ press agencies) CRL. We'll see.

[Facelookbovvered]

j636

I think? the formula is inflation +5% so i guess around 10% a £1 or so on short-haul.

I read somewhere that the amount is to be confirmed in December, which we are now in!

[virginblue]

Though I hesitate to add a me too style post, I bought a trip from Dublin to London today; after two failed attempts at the captcha on Ryanair.com I decided not to investigate that route any further and bought a BMI flight into Heathrow instead. I think this captcha may actually hurt FR more than they realise.

Indeed. I was looking for some inspiration for a short trip around a certain date and the captcha made it so troublesome that I simply left the site and browsed Lufthansa and bought my tickets there. I might be bothered to try again if I have a set destination on a set date, but otherwise I will avoid the booking engine.

Even if it was a straightforward captcha, it would be very annoying, but the way it is set up, it must be really killing business - so difficult to read and so much to fill in.

[pee]

Even if it was a straightforward captcha, it would be very annoying, but the way it is set up, it must be really killing business - so difficult to read and so much to fill in.

It must be killing business indeed, the opinions are similar across Europe. However, I'm sure that the Air Passenger Duty or something alike will be accused for that, not captcha nor FR selfishness.

[CCFAIRPORT]

ONE NEW ROUTE (From March 2012)

Bydgoszcz to Glasgow Prestwick

Port Lotniczy im. Ignacego Jana Paderewskiego w Bydgoszczy

[gd44]

4 New Routes

Barcelona, Bydgoszcz, Chania and Corfu from PIK for Summer 2012.

[FR-]

And will EMA be getting any new routes?

[Cazza_fly]

And will EMA be getting any new routes?

As posted on the EMA thread Barcelona, Corfu, Crete (Chania), Rhodes, Almeria and Zadar are all set to be new routes although Prague also shows on the OLCI listing too...?