"According Belgian newspapers Ryanair will restart operations out of Ostend-Bruges. Malaga and Girona will be served three times a week from October or November on. Ryanair wanted Malaga and Faro, the city council of Bruges and tourism officials wanted Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester, the compromise was Malaga and Girona."

What do you think are the chances that the city council and tourism officials will get what they want and Ryanair will fly to Glasgow Prestwick, Liverpool and Manchester? I go to Ostend several times a year (my next trip there is next Sunday). The trek from Charleroi can be a bit tiring at times.

Passenger eats winning ticket!

It serves to illustrate that flying is too cheap and that some low co pax are stupid/idiots and shouldn't be anywhere near an aircraft.

Tin hat on...standby for incoming!

Binder

Binder's right! Whatever made the eejit who won the ticket think that the crew would have 10,000 euros stuffed down their knickers. They barely have change for a ten pound note!

Um, does nobody else think that this was all a massive publicity stunt? Seriously, the timing is flawless for the weekend papers...

Erm no !
It might have been more impresive if he had swollowed a car...
What a silly man he neally had enought to buy a cuppa and a sandwich.

No its true, one of my friends was the number one on the flight. We do get a few winners of the 10,000 euro, only last summer someone won it from GRO-EMA.

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I still think he may have been paid by Ryanair to discover a winning card and then eat it...

Yeah of course, fly out to Poland and then have cabin crew specifically planted to sell him just that ticket so he can eat it :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

I'm surprised the crew don't find the winning tickets. A dark cupboard and a bright torch normally shows up the winners with scratch cards.:)

sky9 - I don't know the rules of Ryanair's scratchards in detail, but for most scratchcards, employees and their relatives both of the company and its suppliers are usually prohibited from any winnings.

Now all you need is to be best mates with (but not related to) a cabin crew member, and negotiate your share of the winnings ! :}

Er, why not? Given that FlyBE paid people to fill their DUB-NWI flights see story I don't think it's at all impossible that this guy may have been a plant. As for the scratch card, who's to say he didn't have a winning one ready in his pocket to swap out for whatever one he happened to sell?

As I said, clever PR stunt.

Does anyone know when the Ostend flights will go on sale?

It's hard to know. As it is, I do not believe that any seats are already on sale for Winter 10/11. I suppose this will happen in the next couple of months.
Whether the Ostend routes will be immediately announced at the time of the winter schedules being made available or will the announcement have to wait for some bigger general Girona / Malaga / Spain announcements remains to be seen.

The Bydgoszcz shuffle / UK - Poland market
 

Hello,

According to the booking engine, it seems that at the end of March, Ryanair are binning EMA-BZG (was 2x weekly) and reopening BHX-BZG.

BHX-BZG will be 3x weekly this time, after having been 2x weekly from its launch in July 08 to its suspension in October 09. Loads appear to have been strong both from BHX and EMA, although I have no idea about the yields.

This seems a slightly odd move, as does the recent opening and re-opening of a number of other routes from the UK to Poland: At the end of March, Liverpool is getting back previously canned routes to both Lodz and SZZ (SZZ also failed with routes to BHX, BRS, LTN and NRN) and Bristol gets its route to Gdansk back along with a new route to BZG.

Is the UK-Poland market not declining as fast as some would have us believe, or have Ryanair lost the plot completely?

It's a known fact that sometimes Ryanair just randomly opens routes and then waits to see if they work.. At the end of the day, they just ensure that the planes (that keep on coming more) are moving around, either full or half empty...
No complains here though. Thanks to that random selection of routes I've discovered some amazing places around Europe :ok:

In a few days (possibly tomorrow) Ryanair could announce cancellations (removal from the schedules) of some of its flights to Granada - Jaén. The Provincial Government of Granada has recently announced the termination of the cooperation agreement, resulting in discontinuation of the financial incentive (marketing support) to the airline.

Ryanair edinburgh - bournemouth
 

Hi guys ,

I recently heard a rumour that ryanair are planning to suspend all its flights on the edinburgh - bournemouth route, does anyone know if this is true or not ??

Thanks

It's more than just a rumour, the route is being axed from the end of this month.

ASA - ASA Adjudication on easyJet Airline Co Ltd

WOW Advertising Standards Agency agree with Ryanair............expect now to see Blue Moon and Flying Pig

So by the time the recommendation was made the advert would have run its full natural life and achieved what was intended.