Ryanair - 8

[pee]

Compare the CAPTCHA and general Ryanair.com experience with the new iOS and Android apps that EasyJet launched last week.

Or compare Ryanair and EasyJet experiences more generally, in their entirety. Trying to judge more objectively, look at the load factors, among else. Low-cost pax do tend to chose EZY over RYR nowadays, I bet their choice is based just on this overall experience. Not on prices, Ryanair is still somewhat cheaper. Not on the cabin crew behaviour, in my view the staff is OK in both cases. Not on punctuality, where FR is indeed slightly better. Is it due to EZY flying from bigger airports? Wouldn't be so sure. In fact, the significant part of all passengers chooses Ryanair because they live close to or fly to the destination near the local airport where no other low cost carriers operate. Others make their choices based on price. Here the situation changes too, Ryanair doesn't seem to be able to offer their extremely low fares any more. Trying to win more pax increasingly relies on some bigger airports, but... there others are already present. Will the Ryanair brand be strong enough to lure these passengers without a VERY clear price advantage? I mean they still could "astonish the world" by improving their brand as "New customer friendly Ryanair", but so far they are doing the opposite.

Waiting for new winds to change something, I'll still use Ryanair from time to time, but mostly because here in Finland we don't really have many alternative carriers, the above-mentioned EZY doesn't fly here. However, the p2p model will also limit my options. Should I every year fly just to STN, HHN, BRE and BGY? - it becomes boring a bit, as well as playing with Captcha. Ryanair business model needs some significant changes, it is now obvious more than ever.

[FKB-Freak]

Any new routes from FKB?

Greetings from Baden-Baden FKB-Freak

[WHBM]

Originally Posted by pee

I mean they still could "astonish the world" by improving their brand as "New customer friendly Ryanair", but so far they are doing the opposite.

I think this is unlikely as well, because the Ryanair management, recruited and filtered by M O'L, do believe all the Low Fares (ie sometimes low initial headline price) stuff, even when their customers increasingly have different experiences. So I don't think they would be capable of identifying issues which have driven their product approach past it's sell by date. Even if O'Leary goes, all those he recruited in his image will still be there deciding how to build websites or pricing policy.

Sorry guys, it's Freddie Laker all over again, who ordered all those DC-10s and A300s expensively financed in Japan, and scheduled more services from London to LAX in the depths of the winter than long-established BA did. Remind me, how many 737NGs are Ryanair parking this winter, with leasing costs continuing but no revenue ? Probably blame BA again for it all, as well......

[eu01]

Let's try to resurrect some enthusiasm now

Tomorrow "an important press conference" in Palma/ Majorca. MOL will personally announce the upcoming major developments in Son Sant Joan Airport for summer 2012. Possibly a new base.

Captch'ing some new pax, apparently.

[GnRdL]

Yes eu01. O'Leary will be first in ALC and then in PMI.

[PPRuNeUser0176]

If in ALC tomorrow not good news...HUY - ALC got the chop today.

Only 41 airports in booking system that show as operating. Wast 57-60 last summer.

[j636]

Whats going on at Murcia. All flights taken off sale, then back on sale and off sale again.

[racedo]

Remind me, how many 737NGs are Ryanair parking this winter, with leasing costs continuing but no revenue ?

You do realise that US Govt is happily funding Boeing deals at pretty close to 0% interest, add in that the orders were placed when $-€ was strong where as now when paying its the opposite.

Question is if losing money on routes in midst of recession and enough cash to easily tide you over do you
1.) run services which lose money which eats up even more cash
2.) don't run services and minimise losses but not paying staff etc

[GnRdL]

Originally Posted by EI-EIDW

If in ALC tomorrow not good news...HUY - ALC got the chop today.

I'm sure that they don't bring good news for ALC. The same thing happened 50 days ago. They came in ALC to say the same things and then they went to announce a new base in FKB.

[j636]

PMI has got to be a base. First dates were June 2010, December 2010. The only problem slots. Air Berlin are not happy that Ryanair will be payed to fly from there.
PMI have said many times they want year round flights and not just seasonal.
Can a year round base be sustained??

[PPRuNe Pop]

Two or three banned for foul language. Is that the best you can do? It is NOT allowed on PPRuNe and the red card will be played again and again if need be.

PPP

[ayroplain]

CAPTCHA

I really don't know what you guys are on about.

I've just booked four return flights for Feb 2012. I selected the first route and dates, got the CAPTCHA screen, typed in both words with a space in between, immediately got a choice of flights as per usual, selected them and booked. I then booked the other three with no further CAPTCHA requests. The input of one CAPTCHA took all of 5 seconds extra. If that is beyond your capabilities maybe you shouldn't be considering travel at all.

Each return flight cost less than £30.

[vytgri]

Relax guys. A Week ago received notice from AZUON, which says - "IMPORTANT HINT: only one word, the one in wavy italic font, needs to be typed!" I've tried this - and it worked. Dealing with CAPTCHA is not so hard after all

[GnRdL]

Ryanair reduces their flights in Alicante by 50%. 18 routes cancelled.
List of routes cancelled: Bratislava, Brno, Cochstedt, Doncaster, Fez, Gdansk, Humberside, London-Gatwick, Madrid, Marrakech, Palma de Mallorca, Pisa, Poznan, Santander, Sevilla, Treviso, Valladolid and Zaragoza.

Ryanair will remplace Alicante with new routes in Palma de Mallorca, despite they use airbridges in Palma.

[WallyWumpus]

GnRdl,

What the bold for some places?

[GnRdL]

Originally Posted by WallyWumpus

GnRdl,

What the bold for some places?

In case anyone had doubts. Such destinations still displayed in the booking system because they are on sale until late March.

• Alicante (ALC) - London-Gatwick (LGW): until 23-March-2012
• Alicante (ALC) - Madrid (MAD): until 24-March-2012
• Alicante (ALC) - Seville (SVQ): until 23-March-2012

[vytgri]

New routes from PMI:

Aarhus
Marseille
Cork
Oslo
Gothenburg
Paris Bva
Haugesund
Poznan
Kaunas
Santander
Krakow
Santiago
Maastricht
Stockholm
Malaga
Tampere
Magdeburg

[PPRuNeUser0176]

4 aircraft based from March 2012.

[vytgri]

Is anyone aware of the current status of Ryanair negotiating with BER? I see tickets being sold after the closure of SXF, but no official announcements and no new airport code on Ryanair website so far.

[Jorik]

New routes Maastricht

New routes from Maastricht for summer 12:

Maastricht - Palma de Mallorca (already posted here)
Maastricht - Bari

Source: http://www.maa.nl/en/news.asp