Ryanair - 9

[peppo_8787]

Good.. do you have news from Cologne?

[boyzinblue]

Nürnberg also confirmed.
New routes are Stansted, Pisa, Alicante, Malaga, Cagliari and Porto.
3 year deal bringing in 200.000 passengers

[Jorik]

davidjohnson 6 - Thanks a lot! Pitty Dutch airports only announce montly figures with the overall passagers. Not by airline and not by route.Always quite interesting to know load factors..

[jdcg]

Faro and Malaga added from Cologne

[FRatSTN]

I hope they don't start a CGN-STN route, that would no doubt pull Germanwings out of the route and they are one of very few carriers Stansted has left now other than Ryanair and EasyJet.

[VC10man]

I recently flew with Germanwings from Stansted to Cologne. I really enjoyed my flight, lovely clean plane with nice pastel shades of paint. No signs of dark blue or yellow in the cabin. They did not try to sell us any scratch cards and although they arrived early they did not play us that lovely Ryanair trumpet ditty!

Great.

[ssflyer]

BHX summer routes ( for Jamie2k9)

Most of the routes post April from BHX are up,utilising all of the 6 locally based aircraft, but not GRO (winter flights transferred to BCN).
Any idea when they will be bookable as I would like to use my Ryanair Cash Passport for 8 sectors,saving me £48,before the end of this month (-:
Thanks for all your great input
SSF

[FRatSTN]

I thought BHX had 4 aircraft, which maybe possibly up to 5 for 2013 in order continue the BCN, BGY and KRK services through the summer that were new for the winter.

[Transportraition]

To VC10man - stick with them !

[EI-A330-300]

All flights from Canneries after March have being taken off sale, could there be more cuts to services/bases on the way?

[sunday8pm]

Are you sure?

EMA - TFS is still showing 4x weekly for S13.

[ericlday]

LTN - TFS still Tues/Thus/Sat for S13

[EI-A330-300]

Must of being a glitch on the website as everything is back on sale from there now.

[saggst]

Marrakesh

I see flights for Luton - Marrakesh are back on sale from the start of February and twice a week

I guess MOL got his way after pulling nearly all the flights out at the end of last summer ?

[FRatSTN]

Looks like Stansted to Marrakech is set to continue from February as well. I wonder if EasyJet's move on this route has anything to do with it??

[eu01]

SAS management has just rejected pilot proposals... no time left.

In the short term, the only European airline theoretically able to throw a big amount of planes into the market within a days to fill the potential gap is Ryanair.
In the longer term, the only one airline having enough new plane orders is Norwegian.

Regardless of this pure speculation above, the new FR base in CPH looks more likely than ever.

[Type Rated B767]

Has anyone any inside information on new routes S13 from EGNM/LBA? I know Manchesters was announced last week or so...

[DublinPole]

It may be popular to bash Ryanair but their customer service is actually pretty good. I was on a delayed flight over the weekend where the plane that was due to take me was diverted to another airport. I was delayed by 3 hours but there was NOTHING they could do to be fair as it effected all airlines.

However this morning I got an email, complete with apology, with PDF attached that I could send to my insurer if I had one, confirming the delay and reason for the delay without even having to contact them.

Not that I took out any insurance, but I congratulate FR on being so pro-active.

[lexoncd]

It may be popular to bash Ryanair but their customer service is actually pretty good. I was on a delayed flight over the weekend where the plane that was due to take me was diverted to another airport. I was delayed by 3 hours but there was NOTHING they could do to be fair as it effected all airlines.

However this morning I got an email, complete with apology, with PDF attached that I could send to my insurer if I had one, confirming the delay and reason for the delay without even having to contact them.

Not that I took out any insurance, but I congratulate FR on being so pro-active.

That's to head off an eu261 claims at the pass as they say... If Hurricans Sandy and Ash cloud is out of an airlines control then at this time of the year so is any bad weather... See Fred Olsen lines Bay of Biscaycrusie ship case for info.

[PhilW1981]

It may be popular to bash Ryanair but their customer service is actually pretty good. I was on a delayed flight over the weekend where the plane that was due to take me was diverted to another airport. I was delayed by 3 hours but there was NOTHING they could do to be fair as it effected all airlines.

However this morning I got an email, complete with apology, with PDF attached that I could send to my insurer if I had one, confirming the delay and reason for the delay without even having to contact them.

Not that I took out any insurance, but I congratulate FR on being so pro-active.

This isn't good service, it is a blatant attempt to pass the EU261 buck away from themselves and onto travel insurers. Monarch tried to do the same to me recently. That said, in this case it could well be that the delay was out of the airlines control, in my case it certainly wasn't.