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The timetable link is from the old booking engine and it hasn't being replaced with a new one yet after the website update in May.
The google search is quite good.
The google search is quite good.
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Cuts, cuts, cuts...
Cyrano + Jamie2k9 - thank you for your suggestions. I agres that Google is pretty good at providing direct flight schddules over approx the next month or so (sometimsz good for only 2weeks, sometimes for 2 months, depending on the route). Google doesn't handle cases of timetables being changed on a future date - it essentially just pretends a schedule doesn't exist. Thus timetable information on Google beyond 27 October is very scant.
The problem I have is that FR typically only offer a cheap-ish price about 3 months jn advance which is generally out of Google's date range. I'd really like to at least get timetable information reasonably easily before deciding whether to spend my time solving Captchas to get a fare.
Does anyone know if Ryanair's IT dept intend to point the timetable feature on the website to the new booking engine so that it works again ?
The problem I have is that FR typically only offer a cheap-ish price about 3 months jn advance which is generally out of Google's date range. I'd really like to at least get timetable information reasonably easily before deciding whether to spend my time solving Captchas to get a fare.
Does anyone know if Ryanair's IT dept intend to point the timetable feature on the website to the new booking engine so that it works again ?
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Originally Posted by pee
...and cuts again. Okay, it was just a slot allocation for a possible base in Copenhagen, but it's not coming. All 34 routes (slots in CPH) planned from end October are now officially cancelled.
For many months (possibly since the widespread introduction of Captcha), the 'Timetables' feature on the Ryanair website has not worked.
The timetable link is from the old booking engine and it hasn't being replaced with a new one yet after the website update in May.
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We have discussed before this failure of the Ryanair timetable information. What is frankly unbelievable is that they still can't show their timetable on their own website three months later. Is everyone at Ryanair HQ bonused on whether they show stupidity to the same level as their Chief Exec ?
Does anyone know when the Summer 2013 flights will be put up, need to book !
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Won't go down well for FR.
Won't go down well for FR.
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Many more cancellations from other cities as well emerged today. For example, check the CIA international routes after second week of November. In general, the scale of reductions in FR network for the upcoming winter seems unprecedented. Very sad indeed.
It's more about Ryanair's inability to convince pax to travel with them
It's more about Ryanair's inability to convince pax to travel with them
- off season
- while prices are not-so-cheap anymore
- with all the negative PR-publicity accumulated over the years
eu01 - in an average November in Rome, it pours with rain and is not particularly warm either. If you want to go to Rome as a tourist, there are far better times of year to go.
In 2005, oil was $50 per barrel. It's currently about $100 per barrel and has been close to $100 for the last 12 months. You can hedge all you like, but all airlines are passing the cost of oil onto customers.
We appear to have an airline that is leisure focussed and has realised that sometimes when consumer demand is really low, the cost of running the business is higher than the revenue that can be achieved and thus it's best not to incur the cost of offering the product in the first place.
An analogy might be a retail store chain like John Lewis realising that if they are open on Tuesday at 2 am, they will not get many customers and better to just let the cleaners get on with their work without all the extra costs of running the extra costs of customer centric staff, store managers, security, customer centric lighting, etc...
Apart from the 2 weeks around Xmas, the weather in Europe from November to March is pretty rubbish, kids are in school and oil is expensive. Consumer demand for trips around Europe just isn't there. All LCCs with a strong leisure-focussed demand should be considering grounding a significant portion of their fleet in winter. Ryanair is no different
In 2005, oil was $50 per barrel. It's currently about $100 per barrel and has been close to $100 for the last 12 months. You can hedge all you like, but all airlines are passing the cost of oil onto customers.
We appear to have an airline that is leisure focussed and has realised that sometimes when consumer demand is really low, the cost of running the business is higher than the revenue that can be achieved and thus it's best not to incur the cost of offering the product in the first place.
An analogy might be a retail store chain like John Lewis realising that if they are open on Tuesday at 2 am, they will not get many customers and better to just let the cleaners get on with their work without all the extra costs of running the extra costs of customer centric staff, store managers, security, customer centric lighting, etc...
Apart from the 2 weeks around Xmas, the weather in Europe from November to March is pretty rubbish, kids are in school and oil is expensive. Consumer demand for trips around Europe just isn't there. All LCCs with a strong leisure-focussed demand should be considering grounding a significant portion of their fleet in winter. Ryanair is no different
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