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If something is in the pipeline I'm not convinced it would involve moving anything particularly major from PIK, they need it to be open to keep leverage on GLA - Plus the S15 flights from PIK have been on sale a while now, if they were going to move them they would surely have announced that when they went on sale?
FR schedules can obviously chop and change, but the last time I looked at the FR GLA S15 schedule it looked like it needed another based aircraft on Wednesdays from June. One aircraft bases don't seem that common and perhaps don't give the best economies, so imo it's pretty likely they'd look to expand if the existing flights are doing well.
FR schedules can obviously chop and change, but the last time I looked at the FR GLA S15 schedule it looked like it needed another based aircraft on Wednesdays from June. One aircraft bases don't seem that common and perhaps don't give the best economies, so imo it's pretty likely they'd look to expand if the existing flights are doing well.
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Anyone know if Ryanair are running Derry to Faro *only* for July this summer?
For the last several years it has run from around May - October with good load factors but this year only July is available which seems odd.
Surely they would have their Summer 2015 schedule finalised by now or could they still be working it out?
For the last several years it has run from around May - October with good load factors but this year only July is available which seems odd.
Surely they would have their Summer 2015 schedule finalised by now or could they still be working it out?
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Press conference the 21 of January at Paris-Orly Airport
link in french sorry
Transavia veut devenir N°1 à Orly? avant l'arrivée de Ryanair?
link in french sorry
Transavia veut devenir N°1 à Orly? avant l'arrivée de Ryanair?
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Just to complete the trio, not only are today's announcements of Beauvais-Palermo and Beauvais-Wroclaw old news, but Beauvais-Thessaloniki is also old news as well.
We seem to have a press conference at Paris-Orly airport in which Ryanair says it won't be starting any routes (or making any changes at all) at Orly and will not be setting up a base in France but would like to tell everyone about 3 routes at a different airport which were in fact announced long ago. Ryanair having stated very clearly that it would not consider flying from Paris-CDG would like everyone to know it's an interesting idea (often a corporate uphemism in english for 'that is a crazy idea').
So what on earth was the point of the press conference ? We now have someone senior contradicting recently stated corporate plans. Furthermore, after plenty of talk about flying from Amsterdam, Munich and Paris-Orly, all of which seem unlikely to happen in the near future, one might wonder if the new strategy of flying from major airports is actually not going to work. Is Ryanair perhaps realising that the new strategy of using airports near where people want to go is going to be more difficult to implement profitably than MOL had promised shareholders and the press ?
We seem to have a press conference at Paris-Orly airport in which Ryanair says it won't be starting any routes (or making any changes at all) at Orly and will not be setting up a base in France but would like to tell everyone about 3 routes at a different airport which were in fact announced long ago. Ryanair having stated very clearly that it would not consider flying from Paris-CDG would like everyone to know it's an interesting idea (often a corporate uphemism in english for 'that is a crazy idea').
So what on earth was the point of the press conference ? We now have someone senior contradicting recently stated corporate plans. Furthermore, after plenty of talk about flying from Amsterdam, Munich and Paris-Orly, all of which seem unlikely to happen in the near future, one might wonder if the new strategy of flying from major airports is actually not going to work. Is Ryanair perhaps realising that the new strategy of using airports near where people want to go is going to be more difficult to implement profitably than MOL had promised shareholders and the press ?
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A cynic might surmise that the Paris press conference was perhaps called by Ryanair in the hope that a commercial negotiation with Aéroports de Paris would turn out favourably in time to make a big announcement (and as a way to put some pressure on AdP to make concessions), but then AdP unexpectedly didn't play ball, and rather than lose face by cancelling the press conference entirely, Ryanair reheated some well-past-its-sell-by-date BVA route news as a flimsy pretext.
Complete conjecture on my part, of course, but why else hold a press conference with no news?
Complete conjecture on my part, of course, but why else hold a press conference with no news?
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I think it must be near tantilising that Transavia France is entering the Dublin Paris market. Yes it is only a daily rotation, but past events have shown us that even a daily rotation into the Irish market result in carnage.
This to my mind was about a Gatwick type operation for Ryanair, a few important routes ex Orly, a high cost airport but given significant market size and ability to collect above average fares making it attractive. I suspect it was on the cards but the deal couldn't be sealed.
Take note easyJet, time to reconsider, CDG, GVA and SEN to Dublin, you wont have a response from Ryanair on those specific routes... A little off topic I suspect.
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This to my mind was about a Gatwick type operation for Ryanair, a few important routes ex Orly, a high cost airport but given significant market size and ability to collect above average fares making it attractive. I suspect it was on the cards but the deal couldn't be sealed.
Take note easyJet, time to reconsider, CDG, GVA and SEN to Dublin, you wont have a response from Ryanair on those specific routes... A little off topic I suspect.
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A cynic might surmise that the Paris press conference was perhaps called by Ryanair in the hope that a commercial negotiation with Aéroports de Paris would turn out favourably in time to make a big announcement (and as a way to put some pressure on AdP to make concessions), but then AdP unexpectedly didn't play ball, and rather than lose face by cancelling the press conference entirely, Ryanair reheated some well-past-its-sell-by-date BVA route news as a flimsy pretext.
Complete conjecture on my part, of course, but why else hold a press conference with no news?
Complete conjecture on my part, of course, but why else hold a press conference with no news?
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MOL is on the record as having said the following, this broadly what he said;
• Until BHD have runway extension , we won't go back, the price is right. The runway is restrictive and we can't serve Europe or longer routes profitably.
• BFS won't give a deal, they don't want to upset easyJet.
So unless BFS has changed it stance, nothing going to happen. Though has to be said if FR brought a sizeable operation to BFS , they could draw quite a few pax who might normally use DUB. Ie those who live equidistant to Dublin airport, eg from Louth, Monaghan, Fermanagh, Donegal, Leitrim etc...
Not an easy decision for BFS...
• Until BHD have runway extension , we won't go back, the price is right. The runway is restrictive and we can't serve Europe or longer routes profitably.
• BFS won't give a deal, they don't want to upset easyJet.
So unless BFS has changed it stance, nothing going to happen. Though has to be said if FR brought a sizeable operation to BFS , they could draw quite a few pax who might normally use DUB. Ie those who live equidistant to Dublin airport, eg from Louth, Monaghan, Fermanagh, Donegal, Leitrim etc...
Not an easy decision for BFS...