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Brave, considering RYR chased them out of ORK and SNN with extreme prejudice last time they served Ireland. RYR did the same to Wizz also.
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But, even if the people who were at EZY the last time they ventured in to ROI territory are no longer there now, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out FR will literally annihilate EZY on any route out of DUB that they compete directly on. I’ll give the bean counters in H89 credit and suggest it’ll be a route that faces no direct competition from FR, until they prove otherwise.
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I think you've hit the nail on the head - even if it is a route on which they have no direct competition from Ryanair, their arrival in Dublin will prompt that to change very quickly indeed.
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If they do start into DUB, it’ll be from an existing EU base that faces no direct competition. FR do DUB/AMS so I’d rule that out, CDG would be my bet. GVA I’d expect the slots to be allocated to EZS and not EJU. Still not sure it’s the smartest thing to do, poking the beast and all that.
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The slots are 2x weekly Wed and Sat. Whatever it is, it’s not a big operation - which makes you wonder all the more why they are bothering. EasyJet’s strategy is to be #1 or #2 in the markets it serves, and they are realistically never going to achieve that in Dublin!
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The slots are 2x weekly Wed and Sat. Whatever it is, it’s not a big operation - which makes you wonder all the more why they are bothering. EasyJet’s strategy is to be #1 or #2 in the markets it serves, and they are realistically never going to achieve that in Dublin!
The slots are 2x weekly Wed and Sat. Whatever it is, it’s not a big operation - which makes you wonder all the more why they are bothering. EasyJet’s strategy is to be #1 or #2 in the markets it serves, and they are realistically never going to achieve that in Dublin!
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In my view it can only be GVA or LYS. At such low frequency they'd be the only choices. Distinct possibility that there could be a tour operator in Ireland in the fold making this low risk. In this case any response from Ryanair would be disproportionate to the threat posed by easyJet.
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easyJet only flies to GNB from the UK and all flights are operated by easyJet UK G- reg AC, which can't fly EU-EU, there is no EZY base there. No EZY services to there are timed for operating a W-pattern either, plus no Wednesday services which is when the slots are (in addition to Sat). Slots are allocated for the whole season, unlikely for GNB given that all other EZY routes to GNB begin in December. There's also competition from FR on the route. I'd be pretty confident in ruling GNB out.
The slots are 2x weekly Wed and Sat. Whatever it is, it’s not a big operation - which makes you wonder all the more why they are bothering. EasyJet’s strategy is to be #1 or #2 in the markets it serves, and they are realistically never going to achieve that in Dublin!
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They very clearly are no such thing. There is a Wednesday arrival at 1120 as EJU1447 and departure at 1200 as EJU1448, and a Saturday arrival at 0855 and departure at 0935 under the same flight numbers. That's not a "fear of flying" circuit which are ad-hoc in nature anyway.