Frfly, you seem to be in the know with FR, any idea why they have cancelled STN to IBZ for the winter?
Also, if its only a few euros in tax extra, why don't they just add it on for the punter to pay?

Press conference in Limerick tomorrow. End of ryanair at snn?

What was the actual justification for cancelling so many flights today?

Just a small example but todays LBA-AGP flight was cancelled by Ryanair last night, despite the aircraft arriving 35 minutes early today from Knock, it was parked up doing nothing all afternoon. Some passengers hadn't even be told, and the ones that had been told tried to buy seats on the Jet2 afternoon Malaga service, though not many succeeding as it was nearly full already. Did they just chop flights with light passenger loads?

I also noticed several cancellations that do not even route over France, any explanation as to why these were cancelled too?

Money talks so people will do all they can to get the price to a minimum - that is why the likes of Ryanair succeed - by charging low fares they get people who would not be able to pay the high legacy carrier fares to almost impulse buy. If you pay £5 and don't go you have not lost a lot

To all the Ryanair knockers, I have just dug out a 1984 ticket from Belfast to London - £49 return, Saturday night stay, no changes permitted. I recently flew to London for £12 return all in, 26 years later. That is down to the likes of Ryanair.

YET Another hilarious attempt at saying FR is in trouble.

Course if you do the numbers back you will see in 2002 they were flying 1.1 Million in August 2002 v 7.68 Million in 2010.

Funny how you keep away from BA thread which showing a decline and pretty much every other airline.

So why did you leave FR ?

Ryanair will be saving crew hours and fuel with cancellations of unprofitable mid-week flights. Many of the pax will end up flying the next day so that FR keep the income but mos pax would then never take a FR flight again.

With less money to go round getting a little smaller is the correct policy for big airlines. It stops then having to dump seats onto the market which kills ticket prices. Ryanair is now a very big airline and should be adapting to the reducings size of the market.

Racedo - do you work for FR and is your name mike?

Who paid the APD and taxes?

New route coming: GRO - LCA, twice weekly, beginning December 1st. At least something positive for Girona that otherwise faces a few significant reductions there.

Ryanair looking to expand once more but Airbus ain't so pleased...

Airbus Won't Engage In Talks With Ryanair - WSJ.com

All I hope is that the 1p flights make a glorious return!:p

Something comes to my mind when you say this: At HHN, which is now owned by the regional government of Rheinland-Pfalz after Fraport bailed out, it's well known the regional government is effectively paying 5 Euros per passenger in subsidies to keep it running (3 million passengers resulting in 15 million loss per year). But on the other hand the federal government in Berlin collects 8 Euros per flight now. Which effectively means the 5 Euros move straight from Mainz to Berlin. For the FR forum, this is maybe not too off-topic: the HHN-FRA-Frankfurt city shuttle bus was 'demoted' to go to FRA T2 which is awkward to drive in and out with the big bus, drivers are quite vocal about this (costs them 10min all in all). Punishment from Fraport, and surely very welcome by LH. I'm one of the rare profiteers of this as BE and BA go from FRA T2. I use FRA mostly as FR have cut MAN and BHX from HHN, of course. Rumours for years FRA would get an EZY base when the new runway is open, so FRA and HHN would become proper enemies. We're not getting excited though either EZY or FR will open many new routes in Germany now of course, due to the tax.
BTW, if HHN users read this: To connect to trains, consider the Mainz or Mannheim shuttle buses, as it can now be a 30min hassle to get from the HHN shuttle at FRA to the trains (which leave FRA T1-ish).

Ryanair Launches Duty Free Sales on Four Dublin Routes to the Canaries(Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Tenerife)

News : Ryanair Launches Duty Free Sales on Four Dublin Routes to the?

Heard FR are to expand services to Bulgaria & Larnaca for Summer 11 i think STN would have to be in there with Larnaca, maybe even DUB to Larnaca who knows?

Anyone else hear anything about this?

Ryanair can't have any flights between London - Larnaca. This was part of the deal with LCA airport and FR.

Funny clip
 

This is quite a funny clip from Youtube, it doesn't mention Ryanair but it seemed the most appropriate thread to put it under as I'm sure you'll agree:-

YouTube - FASCINATING AIDA - Cheap Flights

Enjoy

Another link for anyone who is not subscribed to the wall street journal!

Ryanair CEO says airline contemplating order for ?up to 300 aircraft? | ATW Online


Also some more nonesense about one pilot flying in this as well.

Nothing know yet about the situation at Maastricht as from January ?

FR can fly London-Larnaca (it would be illegal under EU law to prohibit them). However they won't get any discounts from Larnaca airport, or any other form of support. But if FR feel they can make STN-Larnaca work when paying LCA's normal fees there is absolutely nothing anyone can do about it

Uh, wait - since when does any airport have to do business with an airline? Surely it's up to the commercial people to decide whether they wish to sell their services?

An airport could state we refuse to do business with Y because we happy with Y and therefore we refuse to do business with you in any way.

Course expect then a visit by EU Cartel investigating bods.

FR2487 - Ibiza to Leeds Bradford
 

Any idea as to why this flight diverted to Doncaster this evening???. Other flights have been landing into Leeds Bradford tonight.