Ryanair - 8

[befree]

Ryanair traffic per day down 5% in Feb.

It is a leap year - pax per day down 5% as total pax down 2%.

Easyjet still adding pax and increasing load factor. Between Feb 2011 and Feb 2012 (29 days) Ryanair lost 100,000 pax and Easyjet added 143,074 pax.

[andyafc]

Ryanair at DTV

Rumours going round bout ryanair basing 2 aircraft at durham tees valley. Any truth or just made up?

[fa2fi]

Oh god, last week mme was getting a LHR link now this week it's getting Ryanair. I don't see it happening unfortunately. But I've been wrong in the past ;-)

[racedo]

It is a leap year - pax per day down 5% as total pax down 2%.

Easyjet still adding pax and increasing load factor. Between Feb 2011 and Feb 2012 (29 days) Ryanair lost 100,000 pax and Easyjet added 143,074 pax.

Now we add makeyup statistics to the norm of Ryanair bashing......strange how you haven't posted on Easyjet forum that there passenger numbers per day are completely FLAT on same basis...............on wait that doesn't suit your warped agenda

Ryanair very clear in telling people what they were doingand unsurprisingly they did what they said they would and increased profits as a result.

Strange every time the results come out you on here claiming how bad things are and nothing will change which they prove again and again you have no idea.

So did they turn you down for a job years ago because you weren't good with figures ? Just curious.

[pee]

Ryanair has been very pleased with pax numbers on Charleroi to Lappeenranta route passenger numbers, but the negotiations with the city of Lappeenranta concerning the marketing co-operation have not progressed fast enough. Due to this reason the company has decided to discontinue the route as of April 17th.

Typical for Ryanair. As I've mentioned before, the city of Lappeenranta sees no need to rise its sponsorship level for travels between Western Europe and Russia.

[WHBM]

Originally Posted by pee

Ryanair has been very pleased with pax numbers on Charleroi to Lappeenranta route passenger numbers, but the negotiations with the city of Lappeenranta concerning the marketing co-operation have not progressed fast enough. Due to this reason the company has decided to discontinue the route as of April 17th.

Typical for Ryanair. As I've mentioned before, the city of Lappeenranta sees no need to rise its sponsorship level for travels between Western Europe and Russia.

Pee and myself have discussed Lappeenranta in Finland over the years. However I can't believe that any revenue that the good burghers of that quite small town (which has even lost its feeder flights to Helsinki now) might make could be really significant compared to the revenue from tickets. I also wouldn't have put Charleroi up at the top of likely destinations for those from St Petersburg, just across the border in Russia, to head for. Charleroi, Weeze and Bergamo are a bizarre set of destinations to serve, surely London, Paris, Berlin and Rome are a much more relevant set of points. Most of the Lappeenranta traffic originates from Russia, for whom Brussels has a minimal attraction, and these pax just travel from LPP airport directly to/from the border just down the road, generally not spending anything in the town, or wanting to.

[pee]

^^ Clearly one of the situations where the lack of vision is showing up. You have to have a vision how to make money in short term, that is something Ryanair certainly has. There should be also a vision of future development of the network in its entirety and in some particular places that would require some more sophisticated approach - it doesn't exist.

[Keyvon]

Ryanair has recently chopped a number of routes previously scheduled for the coming summer season :

LPL-NYO
LPL-LEI
LPL-RYG
LPL-RMI
LPL-CIA
LPL-BGY
FAO-LEJ
FAO-BGY
CAG-IBZ
BGY-MRS
CRL-LPP
CIA-RIX
CIA-GOA
CAG-IBZ
BUD-CHQ
BUD-PMI
BUD-RHO
BUD-TPS
HHN-AXD
KUN-EIN
MAD-LGW
PSA-TMP

Does anybody know if there are any further ?

[alm1]

Does anybody know if there are further ?

KUN-EIN also canceled

[j636]

Could ryanair not compete with wizz on. VNO. EIN route

[alm1]

I think Ryanair looses lots of higher yielding passengers here (for travel to and from Lithuania and Latvia) by not selling tickets from their website 7 days till the travel day due to some fraud that other airlines (Wizz including) have no problem to deal with.

[eu01]

Ryanair has reached an agreement with Hungarian authorities concerning the BUD border control. Having no further details, I'll just quote the Ryanair's announcement:

RYANAIR & BUDAPEST BORDER CONTROL AGREE PROCEDURES TO PREVENT FURTHER FLIGHT DELAYS OR CANCELLATIONS

Ryanair, Hungary’s favourite airline [WOW, already?], today (9th Mar) announced that it has agreed new procedures with Budapest Border Control Police to ensure that its flights will not be delayed or cancelled while Ryanair crews, on specific flights, undergo agreed Border Control procedures at Budapest Airport.

These new procedures, which have been agreed between Ryanair and Budapest Border Control Police, will ensure that Ryanair’s 25 min turnarounds will not be delayed while specific Ryanair crews comply with Budapest Border Control procedures. As a result of this new agreement Ryanair confirmed that there will be no further flight cancellations at Budapest Airport after Friday 16th March.

Ryanair’s Stephen McNamara said:

“Ryanair is pleased with this agreement with Budapest Border Control Police which will satisfy their immigration requirements while ensuring that Ryanair passengers do not suffer unreasonable flight delays or cancellations at Budapest airport.

For operational reasons the two daily Ryanair flights which have been cancelled up to Friday 16th March cannot be reinstated, but we are pleased to confirm that all scheduled flights will operate without cancellation from 17th March. Ryanair sincerely thanks Budapest Airport and Budapest Border Control Police for their assistance in reaching this passenger focused solution, which now allows Ryanair to focus all our efforts on growing traffic and tourism at our new Budapest base.”

in the original version: "cancelations"

[FR8364]

Some planned routes cancelled

In FAO they will put the 8th plane based for summer, but they have decided at the end to leave only 7. So:

FAO-LEJ Cancelled
FAO-BGY Cancelled
FAO- BVA, BOH, ORK, BRS, MST Reduction to 1x/week.

[andrasz]

The morning's news is that FR and the border police have agreed on a new, mutually acceptable procedure (no word on exactly what). Something tells me that this was an excellent excuse to cancel a couple of underperforming flights without the need to pay out any compensation, and to gain a little MOL style publicity in the process.

Nevertheless, the procedure did sound rather stupid...

[daz211]

Error message

Has anyone had problems with the booking part of the website ?
I am trying to look at flights to ACE in JUL, Every time I put the dates in and click/tick the T/C and then the stupid code word I get an error page saying I must tick the T/C which I have done...

I have tried about 10x now on three browsers over the last 24hr and the same keeps happening .

Once or twice I get in but after 3x dates I get the same Error (T/C).

Ryanair please dont push me back to EZY again just returned from ACE with them and the flight times are crap and I dont fancy another 2.45 hr drive bloody M25 .

[TSR2]

daz211,

The system works fine for me.

I note that quite a few dates on the Stansted - Arrecife route are full during July.

[CCR]

Yes, I also got that error yesterday trying to book a flight to Ireland.
Gave up on the 3rd attempt and booked a flight with Aer Lingus instead.

[ayroplain]

Has anyone had problems with the booking part of the website ?

Yes there have been some problems this week with the booking website and, in particular, getting timeouts after about 20 seconds of commencing to book and also non-completion of bookings at the very end with the system going no further. Good fun watching the little plane icons flash for 20 minutes a time - but does wear out after 5/6 tries. Managed to book successfully next day.

[daz211]

Thanks for the replys
I will keep trying, Im not going through the Easyjet thing again I need a holiday after the flight times with Easy and I wont go on about the M25 thing again .

[Jorik]

Cancelled routes

More routes cancelled:

Pescara - Eindhoven
Pisa - Tampere

Where are they moving all this capacity to?