Does anyone know when reservation for flights in March and April open? A lot of flights from Manchester are showing as sold out for these times and I can't imagine they're fully booked already?

Ryanair plans to introduce a new personalised website with digital features such as ‘hold the fare’ and destination content from October, as well as an enhanced insurance offering.

New crew uniforms and improved inflight menus are planned from November and new cabin interiors from January.

Defibrillators will be deployed on all aircraft from November, following passenger consultation.

The 2016 flying programme will see 37 aircraft based at Stansted running 126 routes, including extra flights to Edinburgh, Glasgow, Berlin and Cologne.

The airline will operate 18 routes from Luton using four aircraft based at the airport and is raising frequency to Copenhagen.

Five routes from Gatwick will serve Dublin, Cork, Kaunas, Shannon and Seville with capacity rising to six daily flights to the Irish capital.

Ryanair chief marketing officer, Kenny Jacobs, said: “After a record summer 2015, where we grew our traffic and load factor and improved our industry leading punctuality, Ryanair is pleased to launch our London summer 2016 schedule, which will deliver 22.8m million customers at Stansted, Gatwick and London Luton airports.

“After introducing allocated seating, a second free carry-on bag allowance, Family Extra and Business Plus services, and reducing our fees in year one, we’ve continued to roll out year two of our ‘Always Getting Better’ programme, which has included new native apps, reduced sports and airport fees and the launch of Ryanair Car Hire, which went live on Ryanair.com yesterday [Tuesday].

“Our 103 million customers can look forward to further improvements in the coming months, including our ground breaking personalised website, with exciting new digital features such as ‘hold the fare’ and real customer destination reviews, and improved menus, new cabin crew uniforms and new cabin interiors on board, with more to come in year three, as we continue to offer so much more than just lowest fares.”

Further aspects of their self-makeover: Ryanair upgrading from 'Chelsea blue' to 'Spurs blue' colour scheme in rebrand push - Home News - UK - The Independent

Ryanair reject claims they plan to reopen CPH base and operate it similarly to their seasonal base in MRS.


Ryanair rejects reports of Copenhagen 'virtual' base - ch-aviation.com

"The brash “Chelsea blue” and aggressive yellow that have for years have defined the airline’s cheap and cheerful approach are to be toned down, it was announced this week. By making the blue in its uniforms and livery darker (it will now be a calmer “Spurs blue”) and reducing the quantity of bright yellow in its branding, Easyjet hopes to project a more serious and upmarket image."

The above was from the article which shows how badly written and put together it is..................... are they incapable of actually reading it?

Add to the Marketingspeak of claims "They got the colour wrong" shows how poor the article is.

Every brand does a refresh in the same way that people redecorate their home or change their car which will have been refreshed with add ons and colours.

Shades of a wannabee journalist seeking to make a story from nothing and failing miserably.

Slightly bemused by this tenuous football link. Ryanair's current aircraft livery does not feature 'Chelsea blue' anywhere. And 'Spurs' actually play in black and white. I realise that premiership football club names attract attention, but these descriptions don't remotely apply in this instance.

Maybe MOL needs to pay afew more visits to watch Manchester City (he is said to be a fan). Now that is a classy shade of blue!

The first thing they need to do is get rid of the stupid, ridiculous placards glued to the seats and bring back the seatback pockets.

Meh I can disagree. It really makes minimal difference and I prefer it without the seat pockets as then I cannot forget things in them, or put my hand in to find a nice surprise from a passenger before me.

Also, I think in terms of safety, its actually better to have the safety information on the back of the seat, so that's its well within the sight of passengers. Flights can get long and boring, so I'd imagine most pax end up reading them, sub-consciously or not!

In agreement because having seats pockets means they get overloaded or junk forgotten in there, additionally nothing worse that picking up an inflight mag to find it has been scribbled across or half pages torn out.

Would also appear a base in Kos.

In agreement because having seats pockets means they get overloaded or junk forgotten in there, additionally nothing worse that picking up an inflight mag to find it has been scribbled across or half pages torn out.








From a lean perspective having no seat pockets is a great idea, no need to have to empty rubbish from them, simplicity in terms of no stuff left behind, hence avoiding an industry of lost and found, faster turnarounds and at the end of the day the less complexity there is the lower the costs, hence lower ticket prices ...


EI-BUD

The bit that really puts me off about their seats is the angle of rake for the back-rest. It is too vertical to be any where near comfortable; and they have 6 hour sectors in their network. For anyone over dwarf height it's a killer. I get the ida of fixed backs; for maintenance issues, burt that doesn't mean they have to be uncomfortable. On my local national carrier they have reclining seats on their older a/c and fixed on more modern, but different types. The up-rigth angle of the recliner is the same as the fixed and is fine. RYR's is near the torture sleep deprevation position. Why? Did no-one from customer service test them for more than 2 seconds. Ah, all those years ago perhaps the customer service department was a myth. The idea of a GLA-TFS or the like would be unbearable.

Lots of new routes announced. But on the other hand, lots of routes will be scrapped this winter.

Münster Airport is completely abandoned, the last remaining route to Malaga is not bookable for summer 2016. Maastricht will lose her routes to Porto and Faro. It looks like Dormund is losing Faro and Girona.

Ryanair is scrapping routes on the tiny airports. For example in Germany, Ryanair focuses more and more on the larger airports (like Hamburg) and current bases (like Hahn).

RYR are slowly but clearly changing their spots. Comfort Class next? :}

Ryanair will base a 3rd aircraft in summer 2016 at Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden. Does someone have more informations? Moreover Ryanair want to grow in the next few years from 500.000 passengers to 1.000.000 passengers.

Santiago de Compostela base confirmed as 1 aircraft by FR no new routes announced.

Local press in Vigo say FR will open some international routes next summer, Dublin been the first with more to follow. Nothing on FR website yet.

No new summer schedules launched in a few days now.

Summer peaks aren't loaded yet, when can we expect these?

O'Leary gives a press conference in The Netherlands this week, so the Dutch summer schedule (including AMS, MST and EIN) will be loaded soon I guess.

Press conference MOL in AMS
 

Just to add: That press conference will be in Amsterdam this Wednesday.

Looks like WestJet has beaten Ryanair in the race of budget airlines to start attacking the transatlantic routes.

Fly WestJet to London for as little as $199 - Sep 15, 2015

Where is Ryanair at with their plans to launch services into North America?