Ryanair - 8

[racedo]

No Slot

DAA had Feb 2009 when airport shut because of snow and ice with ground crews unable to gain access to aircraft and unable to refuel same.

Same again in Winter 2009/10 and same in Winter 2010 and still DAA has not spent money on ensuring runways, taxi ways and area around is free to use within a reasonable.

If they had spent 1 million on equipment and resources to ensure airport could be open and cut the PR budget for Terminal 2 by same maybe then people would feel happier.

DAA using excuse of snow to cover up yet again their own inadequacies.

[Jamie2k9]

Not just Dublin Airport. What about airports in the UK? Germany, France, Poland and Belgium have no excuse for closing as they are well used to snow.

I do agree that money needs to be spent. It's time for the EU to push airports to invest in more equipment as if they don't lessons won't be learned and it will happon next year.

[airbourne]

There was a spat a while ago with Ostend. FR said they would open a base and then pulled out after some argument after Ostend built a new terminal. With the recent weather issues, there was some diversions into Ostend.

7 aircraft on the ground the other day. There was talk about the airport not letting the FR aircraft take off by chaining the wheels. Is this rumour true? Did all the diverted aircraft get away ok?

[Charlie Roy]

Ostend

Lots of Ryanair aircraft in and out of Ostend during the last week. What you say is the first I've heard. What I hear is the airport being very obliging, helpful and professional with all diversions.

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[racedo]

AS

IF DAA spent as much implementing a bad weather strategy as they did on PR then maybe people would listen to them but their inactions over 3 winters speak for itself.

Using safety as a means of justifying inaction shows DAA could give Comical Ali a run for his money.

[Jamie2k9]

racedo
Why are you not giving out about Galwick, Heathrow, Luton, Birmingham, EDI, Berlin, Bremen, Leeds, Wroclae, Gdansk, Brussels, Hahn, Paris BVA???

They were all closed because of snow and the only airport people haveing a pop at is Dublin.

[airbourne]

Racedo,

IF Ryanair spent as much on their customer service as they did on PR then maybe people would listen to them but their inactions over the years shows that they really dont give a fcuk!!.

As for Comical Ali, he is a saint by comparrison to the Ryanair PR department!

[positive]

I think when the DAA look back at their actions over the recent 2 cold spells and keeping the runways open etc at Dublin they did okay but maybe need to look at some more efficient machinery in dealing with the clearing of the snow/ice and having less downtime if it can be done to the same standards.This will involve investment of course and one I'm sure the regulator would rule on.As for Ryanair's cry about the time the airport was closed they do tend to forget how many flights they cancel themselves due to circumstances outside their control when it suits them and I'm talking about the flights with low load factors that get pulled.

[Luke76]

Question

Got a question about something, cant be bothered looking it up, hopefully someone knows.

Ryanair posts its financial results with the year ending on 31st March. Nothing unusual about that, many countries' fiscal year ends on this date, including the UK and Ireland. That said, How come easyJet posts its financial results with the year ending 30th September?

Thanks a lot.

[racedo]

Luke

There is no reason for a company in selecting its year end date as they can select what ever they wish, retailers tend to select post Christmas as on 31st of December high level of stock will still be held after christmas and part way through sales. Others depend on management but unsurprisingly Airlines and holiday companies avoid mid summer.

[ian_h1]

A company can choose its own financial year it doesnt necessarily have to marry up with the registratnt countries own fiscal year.

[Luke76]

Thanks for your responses

Next question

Why does Ryanair have a smaller turnover/revenue than easyJet even though it is a bigger airline?

[racedo]

Why does Ryanair have a smaller turnover/revenue than easyJet even though it is a bigger airline?

Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity is an age old saying.

Ryanair aim to be one of the lowest fare airlines and accordingly their fare will be on average substantially lower than Easyjet.

Based on last published full year results for both and assumming average £1 = €1.15
then
Easyjets average turnover per passengers was £60.86
Ryanair average turnover per passenger was £39.07,
Easyjet takes 24.3% more per passenenger

However in relation to profit
Easyjet avergage profit per passenger was £3.86
Ryanair's average profit per passenger was £4.17
Ryanair made 8% more profit per passenger

So while a small difference in profit per passenger the total costs per passenger are 55% more in Easyjet than Ryanair.

[Facelookbovvered]

Racedo

You are correct on your historical analysis, what will be fascinating going forward is how this might change, a much larger proportion of Ryanairs volume is now through "proper" airports ie AGP/PMI and so on, whilst they will have enjoyed some sweetheart deals for basing aircraft all over Spain, they won't last forever. In addition to which they are flying much longer stage length sectors now and with oil heading North once again they will need to drive up their average ticket price to maintain profitability.

The big question is at what point does the volume start to drop if the prices goes up? it has been said many times (even by Ryanair) that its passengers are very price sensitive, would they be prepared to pay an average £60.86? personally i can't see much difference between Ryanair/Easyjet from a pax point of view at least in terms of the product, other than Easyjet fly into places that aren't in the middle of nowhere, but as i said that's changing.

Will Ryanair risk increasing their hold luggage charges again in the peak Summer months of 2011?

[potash]

Fue base

FR to open new base at fuerteventura

http://www.canarias7.es/articulo.cfm?id=195546

[Flowerdream]

Any infos about new Maastricht routes? They should be announced very soon now

[AP1995]

will ryanair ever think about flying to destinations such as SSH in egpyt?

[apaul]

Can't see it ever happening from the UK because of the distance and the higher rate of APD which is payable.

[MUFC_fan]

*sigh*

I don't want to post this but feel I must for the initial part of the article but once again MOL's cr*p is filling up print space...

Ryanair CEO says airline contemplating order for ?up to 300 aircraft? | ATW Online

[dwlpl]

What part is cr*p?

The part saying they are 'contemplating an order of up to 300 aircraft' isnt as the lifetime of an aircraft flying for a LCC is around five years.