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Old 22nd Jan 2011, 10:28
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What happened in ye olde days when tickets were printed on paper with carbons ? I seem to recall that if a passenger lost their ticket and turned up at the airport, the airline had the right (even if not always exercised) to charge the passenger for a completely new ticket.

If however a passenger loses their boarding card between issue at check-in, and collection at the gate, what are the formal rights of an airline under that scenario ?
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Old 26th Jan 2011, 08:59
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4 new routes from/to Manchester (MAN): Alicante, Faro, Madrid and Tenerife South. 2 additional frequencies to Dublin.

1 new route from/to Humberside (HUY): Alicante (2x/weekly from 12 April).

On sale from tomorrow 27 January.

Link: http://www.travelweekly.co.uk/Articles/2011/01/26/35885/ryanair-launches-four-new-routes-from-manchester.html
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Old 26th Jan 2011, 10:09
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FR at Gatwick

Any ideas when the Gatwick schedule for the summer will be confirmed ?

Some winter routes still not on sale , yet slots applied for summer 2011 ?

New routes or any expansion planned for Gatwick ? TFS , LPA , ACE, FUE would be nice ?


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Old 26th Jan 2011, 11:49
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Manchester reborn!
Never say never again...
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Old 26th Jan 2011, 11:51
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Until the next time the landing fees go up .................

(or something else that makes MOL throw his toys out the pram)
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Old 26th Jan 2011, 12:02
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You can never trust a man as irradic as MOL. Don't get me wrong, he is a business genius... you just can trust him!

He could start a cheeky route to LDY though!
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Old 26th Jan 2011, 12:02
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MOL wouldn't have gone back to Manchester if he didn't have to.

And the only reason we have as to why he had to go back was because he did exactly that...
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Old 26th Jan 2011, 12:43
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Ryanair Announces 4 New Manchester Routes to Alicante, Faro,?
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Old 26th Jan 2011, 12:48
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"He could start a cheeky route to LDY though!"

And or BFS
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Old 26th Jan 2011, 13:41
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What's up with their summer schedules? They didn't update them yet.
E.g. for KUN base they announced a new plane and didn't announce any new directions or even frequencies. That's somewhat strange, isn't it?
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Old 26th Jan 2011, 13:46
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We all know the Ryanair way so lets not drag out the same
old arguments - wait and see what happens.

Good luck to Ryanair and MA however long the relationship
lasts.

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Old 26th Jan 2011, 14:36
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BELhold, don't worry... I don't think Belfast has seen the last of MOL and his gang yet. Whether he returns to BHD or BFS, I wouldn't hazard to guess. BFS though seems more in line with Ryanairs operations. An airport further out from the City served and in need of some passengers. I'd happily give up Ryanair expansion at LDY to BFS, as long as we got Flybe!
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Old 26th Jan 2011, 15:25
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I don't think Belfast has seen the last of MOL and his gang yet.
Oh please God no!!!!!!

Belfast (and Northern Ireland) is a fairly limited market. We have wide domestic competition with Easyjet and FlyBE, with also British Midland International, bmibaby, Jet2 and Aer Lingus on a smaller amount of domestic routes.

Coupled with many of the aforementioned carriers serving a wide number of European destinations, many in competition with fellow loco's or the charters. Some from NI will still also consider Dublin as an option increasing competition further! Many European routes have been tried and failed, showing perhaps the lack of imagination on the whole from the Northern Irish travelling public.

Yes, the UK is a capitalist economy, but don't ruin (in my opinion) the equilibrium NI currently has by simply replacing existing carriers with the lower service operation that FR offer. FR have also stated that in the future they may reduce their emphasis on soley being the cheapest option, so really what's the gain??? Extortionate baggage charges and having to print your own boarding pass!!! Oh please God no!!! (Ready for my retaliation).
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Old 28th Jan 2011, 06:52
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Anyone in the know about CGN become a new base with 2 based a/c?
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Old 28th Jan 2011, 08:51
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CGN rumour - doubtful

The 'two airplanes from April' rumour is from here:
Ryanair eröffnet Basis in Köln - airliners.de - Forum
The German forum people are highly sceptical about this. Esp with the new German flight-tax, and NRN already a very big hub serving basically the same area, plus HHN. LH would be very unhappy with CGN as they run the massive 4U hub there, which is effectively CGN's lifeline.
Nothing at all in the German media apart from some 'talks happening' between CGN and FR in October last year.
WW hastily got rid of EMA-CGN, but that's just WW's usual mess I guess, nothing deeper.
 
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Thessaloniki

New Greek destination:

Thessaloniki (SKG)
3/week from Charleroy
3/week from Stansted
2/week from Skavsta
Rygge (no frequency published yet)

Thessaloniki would be the ideal place for the first FR base in Greece!
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Old 28th Jan 2011, 18:22
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agreements, agreements

What is the most reliable way to anticipate new routes before they are announced? My hint: try to perform a multi-language scan of local governments' and city councils' budget decisions in different parts of Europe, it will tell you all. Thessaloniki is already announced, let's move ahead. So, what's next?

The next new FR destination will most likely be Rijeka in Croatia, the announcement is imminent. How do I know? Well, the essential decision concerning the marketing support has just been made. To make the agreement viable, the Croatian National Tourist Board (HTZ) will provide € 125.000, both Primorje-Gorski Kotar County and the City of Rijeka will give 50.000 euros, and the tourist boards of the City and County mentioned €11.500 thousand each. As a result, two new routes will be started. One from Stansted, twice a week, the second one from Skavsta, with similar frequencies. Both will be seasonal, from April to October. Can you see any reason not to implement the agreement?

Let's go elsewhere and switch to Spanish. Santiago de Compostela has just allocated 350,000 euros to guarantee three weekly flights to Brussels CRL. The sum will be paid annually to ensure three weekly flights until 2015, the flights are due to start in May this year. Any doubts if the plan will materialize?

On the other hand, there are some routes already planned and included in the schedule draft since the beginning of December still waiting to be released. Like this from Trapani to Tampere, no-nonsense route perhaps, waiting, waiting... for the marketing agreement supposedly?

The business life is very simple indeed, more simple than you might have expected.
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Old 29th Jan 2011, 21:53
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You might like to read:

No one safe with O'Leary on full throttle at 'clinic' - The Irish Times - Sat, Jan 29, 2011
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Old 30th Jan 2011, 10:35
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From the article mentioned above:
There were the hapless travel agents who invited [O'Leary] to their Holiday World at the RDS. “Don’t waste your time with tour operators and travel agents. Book your flights with us and your accommodation independently and you will save money,” he started.
I'm not a travel agent, but due to my experience in the field people ask me sometimes to find them a good travel alternative, non-standard flight connections and other solutions, like air + train/coach travel. Quite often at least one of the carriers selected used to be Ryanair, with a wise strategy you CAN help people save their money with them. Recently I became more cautious, however, especially after a couple of unexpected schedule changes happened when I had to do my best to find an alternative solution in order to avoid my "silent guilt" in the eyes of travellers for spoiling their holiday.

Last week a group of thirty youngsters wanted to save on the group ticket. My solution, a flight with Ryanair to an alternative destination and a surface transfer would have saved them half of the sum the travel agency required. But then again... who will be responsible if anything goes wrong? Me? With somewhat unfriendly data processing, time-consuming check-in system (try to enter more than 8 pax at a time), and all that inflexibility making the adjustment- and error-prone group booking very risky and ungrateful. No, thanx. I was about to pay FR over 3,000 euros on behalf of that group... No, the group booking "system" shortcomings discouraged me from doing so. If I had more options, I could have made this purchase, but I just decided to direct all these potential pax to a real travel agent.

You might say I'm bashing FR again, I'm certainly not. Quite hopelessly I just try to demonstrate how so cost-conscious and mercenary carrier is leaking money, by not earning them.
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Old 31st Jan 2011, 06:59
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Ryanair results out for q3

Ryanair have just reported results for the last 3 months (up to dec 10). They reduced the loss for the qrt to 10m euros down from 11m last year. The big change are fuel cost for the qty now 283.7m euros from 206.6m last year. We know 90% of the fuel for that qtr next year will be 11% higher, the 4th qrt next year they face a 22% rise in fuel costs.
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