Ryanair to Liverpool?
Ryanair to Liverpool?
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Liverpool will be the Ryanair north of England base as announced late January.. .. .Follow <a href="http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=79;t=000091" target="_blank">http://www.pprune.o rg/ubb/NonCGI/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=79;t=000091</a>. . . . <small>[ 05 March 2002, 14:46: Message edited by: dwlpl ]</small>
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Forgot to add that the Brussels-South route from Liverpool is the first of thirteen new routes from Liverpool. . .. .If the ten year agreement is similar to other airlines agreements with Liverpool then they will be expected to start new routes at agreed regular timescales.. . . . <small>[ 05 March 2002, 17:57: Message edited by: dwlpl ]</small>
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Brussels-South??. .. .Where the hell is that? Is it a euphemism for some ex-military drome about 40 miles from Brussels <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="biggrin.gif" /> ?
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Hmmm....by my reckoning that puts it about 50km from the centre of Brussels.. .. .Not exactly 40 miles, but not far short!. .. .Let's get this straight...I've got no problem with Ryanair. I wouldn't choose to fly with them myself, but that's my choice as a customer and that's what a market economy is all about.. .. .In the interests of informed choice, though, it might be better if people knew what they were buying.. .. .If, for example, I asked for a pint of Guiness at a my local hostelry (perish the thought <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" /> )I would be less than pleased to be offered a half-pint of Caffrey's in the next room for my money.. .. .Similarly, your average punter would expect, whether rightly or wrongly, a ticket to Brussels to be just that....not to another airport 50-odd km away.. .. .If having to find your own way to Brussels from there is part of the deal with a low-cost ticket, fine! But at least give people the full information they need to make a truly informed choice, and then respect the choice they make.. . . . <small>[ 06 March 2002, 19:31: Message edited by: Caslance ]</small>
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as Zaventem, where Brussels National Airport is located , is 15 km from Brussels itself , the difference between EBCI to Brussels and EBBR to Brussels is only 25 km. .. .BTW i don't work for Ryanair
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Caslance. .I know were you are coming from. Recently I was waiting at Orlando (MCO) to pick up a friend arriving from Manchester. Lo and behold, to my great surprise, he arrived at Sanford airport, which is not Orlando by any stretch of the imangination.. .How these airlines can get away with such misleading advertizing is beyond me. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="confused.gif" />
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Onan, dear boy!!. .. .You've already used that one. me old China. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="tongue.gif" /> . .. .As I said the last time you harpooned that particular red herring, we're talking about scheduled flights here and to my knowledge there haven't been scheduled flights between Manchester and Orlando for many a long year, if at all.. .. .Anyway, fancy waiting for someone and not checking which airport they were arriving at first....tut, tut. Planning, dear boy, planning!. .. .Using the logic exhibited above, I suppose we should refer to Liverpool as Manchester West or Coventry as Birmingham South-East?. .. .Imagine the joy and gratitude of Mancunians as they discover that the slog down the motorway or interminable train/taxi ride to Speke (look....that's it's "real" name, just like Manchester International is "really" called Ringway) is just a trip to their local airport after all.. .. .I know I'm convinced. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />
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re: local airport. .. ......I am surprised it has taken this long for Mancunians to be associating themselves with the airport in Liverpool...... . . . <small>[ 10 March 2002, 09:23: Message edited by: dwlpl ]</small>
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Didn't easyJet want to use Manchester's name a few years ago due to it having a higher profile than Liverpool?. .. .Looking at my A to Z, it seems that most of MAN is within the boundaries of Manchester City Council, with half to two-thirds of 24L/06R in Macclesfield Borough Council, although it has to be said that Ringway was integrated into the city of Manchester in 1974.. .. .MAN-MCO does exist in scheduled service form(although the service duration varies from year to year i.e. this year it's May to November._
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Oh, is there an airport in Liverpool, then? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="biggrin.gif" /> . .. .But seriously, folks, with all the best will in the world it's only in very recent years that there have been any services from Liverpool to travel down the M56 for.. .. .I remember the dark and dreadful days when the Royal Mail flights kept Liverpool Airport going and there were almost no passenger services at all. It's nice to see the place actually being used! . .. .I'm all for expansion of services from regional airports - all of them - and I find the "us versus them" attitude that often prevails in discussions of this type very irritating.. .. .It's not a football match, it's a business and there is clearly room in the market for services from Liverpool and from Manchester. Liverpool has found it's niche after years of neglect and that's got to be good news for regional airports all over the country (and beyond).
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Caslance. .sorry about that, It must be that stupid Canadian education and system we use on this side of the pond (North America). But when I get e-mail from a friend informing me that he will be arriving on such-n-such a flight at such-n-such a destination (Orlando) I usually take them at thier word. Just as he took the word of his travel agent. If you book a flight from Toronto to any place in the world, I bet dollars to donuts you will arrive, baring unforseen circumstances, at the named destination. Example; on Wednesday 27, April 2002, I will be flying from Toronto to Los Angeles, USA then on to Auckland, New Zealand. I'm very sure that I will arrive at LAX and not Ontario, CA. Likewise I expect to arrive in Auckland and not Tauranga or Hamilton.. .. .But again, why does it seem to me that everytime thier is a reference to Manchester you (in particular) feel the need to "slag off" Liverpool, even if there is no slight intended or implied against Manchester? I am sure my freind would have booked his flight from the closest airport to his home, and seeing as he lives in Huddersfield, that airport happened to be the one in Manchester. And yes, I still think calling Sanford, Orlando is, at the very least, misleading advertising if not downright lying by the travel wholesaler. If Sanford Airport was located to the east of Orlando instead of North of that city, it could be named Cape Canaveral International. Manchester and Liverpool are closer to each other than is Midway (Sanfords location) and Orlando. . .. .As to me referencing Manchester as any other place whatsoever, I can assure you that I would never burden any city with that, well deserved, Manchester label. And I mean the city of Manchester and not it's somewhat, by British standards, adequate airport. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="tongue.gif" />
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Onan,. .Your daddy wasn't a lumberjack by any chance, was he? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="tongue.gif" /> . .we aim to please, it keeps the cleaners happy
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Well, in Hahn's case, for instance, Ryanair were got off the hook by ICAO, who apparently classified it as "Frankfurt-Hahn", which obviously FRA and LH didn't take too seriously at the time but obviously wish they had now.