Ryanair Strangely Quiet on BA Strike.
 

Is it just me, or have Ryanair stayed very quiet about the BA strike? I would have thought they would have been all over the press sticking the boot in. I mean surely they could not have a better opportunity to get one over on BA, which leads me to my next question.... Are BA sub-chartering flights to RYR??
If they are then I guess it must be in the contract that RYR doesn't say anything. It all just seems a bit strange. :confused:

Maybe they are hoping to have a more permanent relationship with BA.

er no.
 

it's because 1) we're fleecing them on chartering a/c and repatriating passengers and 2) reveling in their unfortunate state of affairs. we have already said what a load of ol sh*t unions are.

plus - why kick someone when they're down?

most likely an error
 

a similar thing happened a few years back in Bournemouth. Ryanair advertised flights from scotland to Oslo and Stockholm in the local Bournemouth papers. I think it must be an error on Ryanair's (or more likely their creative agency) part.

I think you'll find the 'quietness' comes as part of the agreement with BA and RYR.

Because that's what ryanair do.

General question. The LBA base starts operation this Thursday. Does anyone know when the based aircraft are due to position in, or indeed is anyone rostered to operate these flights?

What usually happens when new bases kick off?

Thanks.

Usually they fly in early evening the night before.

I believe there might be (might be!) a slight hint of respect coming from MOL to Wee Willie......I bet he misses not being able to wave across to him in Dublin.


......that and the charter income of course:}

I must take umbridge with you Ryanair 1 about unions being ol s**t (if you cannot write in a proper way other than using foul language I suggest you go and have a few lessons somewhere to improve your vocabulary.
I was a Union official for my union in the printing industry (we all had to take our turn) and most of the time we all tried to do a decent job for the employees and employers.
I was glad I was in a union because some of the bosses I came in contact would have tried to walk all over you if you had not had the protection from the union and when I was out of work through redundancy they helped me financially until I managed to secure.
I am glad I do not work for your company with that sort of attitude where everybody seems to be tarred with the same brush. The old saying goes a happy ship is a good ship.
As regards the BA strike the only solution is for both sides to get round the table and negotiate an honourable settlement.

WW and MOL play golf every week together, so they probably brokered the deal on the fairways somewhere, and anyway the FR flights are flying into Gatwick Southend airport.

From June new (seasonal?) routes from AHO to BRE (restart), BTS and GSE and from July OPO-CCF 2 weekly

Hey

The 2 new LBA based aircraft have arrived 24 hours early then, As both aircraft have just positioned in from Dublin this evening with-in 20 mins of each other as FR1561P and FR1562P

Removed due to giving out too much information. . . not sure if pprune would give fr my email or details . . . . .

How is LBA to Noc route looking load wise

Im not sure i dont know about any other flight

WELSHGUY40
The link to this livery website is great, and the Ryanair livery looks very smart on an Airbus. Most unlikely that Ryanair would ever get an Airbus, since they fell out of terms when Ryanair went to Boeing with the Airbus 'final offer' and then signed Boeing and effectively gave the 2 fingers to Airbus.

However, you may be interested to know that around 1988 Airbus flew an A320 to Dublin with Ryanair image on the side, which took the form of the Ryanair name on the side of the fuselage (at that time they had moved from the 2 R's to a plain white tail). At that time Ryanair were 'kicking the tyre's' on the idea of getting Airbus but finally decided that they couldnt afford it. I have a picture of it in a book called Aviation in Ireland.

Maybe if Ryanair take over any Airbus operators and rebrand them Ryanair in the absence of being able to get good pricing on another batch of Boeings we may then see a Ryanair branded 320!



EI-BUD

Airbus
 

thanks for that i guess we never no with fr

Having just flown Stansted-Prestwick-Stansted, the flights were about half full each way. However, the cabin crew did not block off rows at front and rear, only rows 3-4.
Cabin crew used to say it was because of balance, has the policy changed ? Never liked all being squeezed into the centre of cabin. Nice to have whole row to myself each way.

A few passengers in suits which is a rare sight on Ryanair flights, obviously BA passengers trying the alternative. Would have thought loads would be higher with what going on at BA, or is this route dying anyway.

Blocking row 3+4 is MANDATORY below a certain amount of passengers.
The blocking of rows 3-8 and the last 4 is an OPTION to slightly shift the balance limit (usually depending on the amount of luggage / cargo in the holds).
So if the loadsheet shows a nicely balanced aircraft with just a few passengers it is always possible to block just rows 3+4.
There has actually been a change in procedures a few months ago - now it is always possible to sit in the first two rows as it often led to passenger complains when it was not possible to sit there.