easyJet withdrawal from Ireland
 

Looking at their website and it is not showing in their timetable, and is not available to book. None of LGW to Knock, Cork or Shannon.

Every other destination is.

Rang them a few weeks ago and they said it may not be on yet but all routes will be loaded by the end of the month?????

Have they lost to Ryanair in one of the most brave/stupid (delete as appropriate) moves since their launch????

Does anyone know anything about this, if they are still going to fly?

Cheers

Have read that London Gatwick to Cork, Knock and Shannon will end by the end of October.
STN to GVA from Dec 15 twice daily.

The flights will be operating, just late loading into the system. There is still some juggling of lgw based a/c going on.

Sheikh it baby, sheikh it real good

Unfortunately, Easyjet has decided to withdraw from ORK, NOC, SNN on 25 October.

I've just booked ORK-LGW for Saturday 29 Oct 2005 and my booking was accepted.

What gives?

Cheers,

The Odd One

Nothing though, from sunday 30 Oct onwards, start of winter t/t.

Yes, quite, so it makes the 25/10 date seem a bit bogus...

TOO

Source CH-Aviation.com
 

31.07.2005



easyJet (U2/London Luton) will launch twice daily A319-100 service from London Stansted to Geneva on December 15. It will however give up its routes from London Gatwick to Cork, Knock and Shannon by the end of October. easyJet is reportedly considering adding new routes from Geneva to Bournemouth and Edinburgh.

I wonder how Ch aviation knows more about easyjet's planned routes than the actual company itself.... I know its a rumours page but really, dont believe everything you see written down

Sheikh it baby, Sheikh it real good

easyJet have well and truly had thier bottoms slapped over the Irish routes. MOL must be wetting himself with laughter if this turns out to be true!

The aviation world is certainly full of bad decisions, easyJet seemed to have added to this! Now I wonder if they had launched Cork and Knock from Luton, would they have worked for them better?

As Luton will not be getting the Bus until 2007, I doubt if there will much extra capacity added?

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I spoke with EasyJet this morning and there is no definite decision on Ireland yet. It is all in the air and they are loath to dump Ireland as it could put further pressure on their falling share price.

They are thinking of starting some EURO services from ORK. Or possibly KIR where they have a very attractive deal lined up. NOC-LGW may stay.

ORK & SNN to LGW may revert to one or two daily services ex KERRY where they are hooking up with the new regional bus terminal.

They told me direct they are not definitely out of Ireland. All in the air!

The Irish routes will be open for booking by early next week.

neidin:

Your credibility on this issue is zero. KIR rumours are quite simply BS.

Ha, ha. Money talks - Orange is just one of the colours OO5. Just one - Green talks at Luton as well you know. Shame when the loop is not a full circle.

I'm baffled as to how a new regional bus terminal at Farranfore is going to change anything. There's already a stack of buses from Cork to Farranfore every day, on their way to Tralee. Funnily enough most of the passengers from Cork don't get off at Farranfore. Maybe they need to be enlightened and a shiny new bus terminal will entice them in. Certainly seems to have worked for Athlone, though the selection of flights from Abbeyshrule still leaves a bit to be desired.

nedin
EasyJet would not be talking to you about their plans for Ireland
so stop making up S**t

DW11

Tralee-Cork services don't pass the airport. Services from Limerick, on the other hand, do list it as a request stop.

Anyone who knows the senior management people at EasyJet pick up the phone tomorrow and you can hear the tales of fun and games being played by the Greek Side who are kicking out anyone who disagrees with them - and the "professionals" who are trying to cull loss making routes.

Trail the resignations of senior Directors and speak with very senior management and you will then know what is happening.

Remember Stelios still owns 40% of EasyJet and with the shares losing 8.5% last week - the value of his shares dropped in 4 days last week by GBP 30.4 million.

Now if EasyJet drop the Irish routes they will get an unmerciful kicking in the papers, markets, share analysts and stock market. The markets believe there is only room for one LCC in Europe - they may be wrong - but that is what they believe. If there were lots of "Ryanair beats EasyJet" headlines - that would force the share price still lower. It was up almost 100% on the year until last week. Every 1% drop in the share price costs Stelios GBP 3.6 million.

So - I think EasyJet will continue a massively expensive fares battle in Ireland with Ryanair - and are definitely looking for expansion moves in Ireland. If they lose GBP 10 million in Ireland in 2005 well that is still only a 3% drop in the value of Stelio's shares. If Ryanair are seen to win the war in Ireland - well EasyJet's share price over the following month could be off 15-30%.

Don't be silly and think that publicly quoted stock exchange companies follow rational paths. It is generally a case of perception being reality. Again it is better for Stelios to lose GBP 10 - GBP 30 million in Ireland over next fews years than to chop the Irish routes and see a 3-10% drop in their share price.

I for one have voted with my wallet as anyone who follows my posts on this topic can see. Bet against EasyJet over the last few weeks and you could have made a tidy sum. Follow the news flow good and bad and you can see the share price fluctuate.

The bigger game is that Ryanair is trying to drive EasyJet into the ground and then snap up what routes they can overnight. That is Ryanair's long term goal - I do not joke on that. EasyJet is very vulnerable due to the huge overhang of shares that Stelios owns and his perception in the City as being quirky. Vulnerable to a takeover - or other implosion - that is the nature of airlines.

Remember how Virgin had to leave the markets some time back.

Flights are now bookable on the website. Cork has a frequency increase to 3x daily on weekdays and 2x daily on weekends. Shannon and Knock are 1x daily all week. Is that a reduction in service for Shannon?

Edit: And then I noticed something strange. They show up if you select London (All Airports), but not if you select London Gatwick where it gets blocked by a Javascript Pop-Up.

MarkD,

The 40A goes from Cork to Tralee through Farranfore on an almost hourly basis. God knows, I've been stuck behind them often enough.

hourly?? bus eireann?? dont think these match up,more like weekly!!!