Ryanair
 

I know that Ryanair is going to start 2 new bases next year.
I have heard some rumours that they are going to have a base in Greece.
Can someone confirm this.

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Yes I can.

MK

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Where do you get your info? I work for them and havn't heard that rumour yet!

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It will intersting to know where ? It cannot be LGAV as its the most expensive airport in Europe,and they don't like paying fees !! So where else would they go ?

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-IF- this is true, perhaps Thessaloniki LGTS??

Greece could do with a REAL LCC as Aegean isn't all that cheap...

LGAV may be very expensive, but EZY flies there from three destinations.

let's wait and see.

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Geia sou Jimmy the Big Greek,

Stansted to Athens would be a great route. H Athina einai 6 me 7 ores odigisi apo tin Thessaloniki, pou sumainei oti einai arketa makria akoma kai gia tin Ryanair. Apo oti gnorizo den uparxoun alles epiloges gia tin perioxi tis Athinas ektos kai an kanonoun kapio diakanonizmo me to palio Elliniko Airodromio. Einai kleisto edo kai 5 xronia kai vevaia poly usixo!

Cheers,
Donners.

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Giasas everybody

No, Donners. The old airport in athens (helliniko) is closed. They are going to build houses there.

Good base would be Heraklion in Creete.

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Houses? <cough> Surely "largest urban park in Europe" ;) Using Ellinikon would probably be the first instance where a "Ryanairport" was closer to the city it served than the principal airport :eek: I'd have thought Tanagra was more likely :)
Greece is crying out for for more competition (be it an LCC or otherwise): On domestic routes, OA and A3 are expensive and their flights are packed out . As Donners says, driving between Greece's two principal cities takes ages - even longer if you chance the train - so there is a significant domestic market to be exploited, not to mention the potential for expansion into the Balkans.
HER would be a good choice and would seem to offer more potential than Thessaloniki as a base. Given SKG's reputation for foggy wx that might not be a match made in heaven anyway. On the face of it, ATH would seem to be too expensive for an LCC, but of late the airport has been looking rather empty (is the satellite ever used anymore?) and AIA might welcome a low cost entrant...

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I heard stories of BGY-SKG and CIA-SKG last year, but as with 90% of Ryanair rumours nothing came of it.

This thread is the first time I've heard a Greek base mentioned.

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Is there any rumor that the second base could be Bratislava - Slovakia (Or as advertised, Vienna - Bratislava) ?

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"Using Ellinikon would probably be the first instance where a "Ryanairport" was closer to the city it served than the principal airport"

How about CIA, and GSE?

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The only reason for going to Greece is to stick it to Easyjet. I think Greece would be the longest sector for Ryanair (?) and long sectors are not profitable for LCC's. ATC delays and weather can wreck havoc with the timetable and the 25 mins turnround necessary to keep the planes flying. Remember Ryanair have no back up planes or pilots. Greece is out, IMHO, but North Africa might be the next opportunity!

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It depends where you're flying to/from. Flying from the UK or Scandinavia would be out, but from Italy, it would be a reasonable destination. Even from Hahn, they fly routes of a similar distance (Tampere, Jerez).

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Flyglobespan have launched this Route!

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Ryanair to fly to Montenegro. Info from LUCHTZAK
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Ryanair MRO in Latvia / Poland
 

In this week's Flight International Ryanair are said to be launching a joint venture with Singapore Technologies Aerospace to do all their maintenance in either Latvia or Poland. Although STAe have not confirmed this, if true, it sounds like the end of its loss making JV in Bournemouth.

I don't know about Riga, Latvia, because of the lack of complete technical facilities, but Warsaw, located in Central Europe, and a major European hub, could be a carrot for Ryanair.

In Poland Rzeszów (RZE) is competing, not Warsaw. They have a very decent airport and skilled workers there.

PS. And they offer some 30 hectares of land by the airport for free...

Ryanair B757 !
 

Well, not really, but it did look odd. T'was FJE for RYR. Not often that you see other carriers subbing for RYR though. Pilots and hours?

Quite a few of Ryanair's flights are operated by other aircraft.

A320s are used regurlarly.