Does anyone know if Ryanair have finished loading there summer 2016 schedule from Bournemouth yet , last year they left it till after christmas to announce that they were not continuing with certain routes , seven in fact due to lack of available aircraft

At the moment nothing new has been added just a carbon copy of this year

FR have applied for 21 daily slots at CDG to serve Barcelona, Bergamo, Rome, Dublin, Lisbon, Madrid, Porto and Berlin Schönefeld with up to 3 daily on some routes. They have received 15 slots. Appears not been able to get ORY ones is the main driver.

Ryanair obtient une quinzaine de vols quotidiens à Roissy

Anyone on this thread know if there is any press release planned at Belfast any time soon for the planned Ryanair return?

Ryanair back at Belfast (Intl)
 

Ryanair will return to Belfast starting in March with a route to London Gatwick.

NEW ROUTE:
Belfast (BFS) - London Gatwick (LGW) starting March 27, 2016.

And it is understood it is considering at least six other destinations from the airport - potentially to sun and leisure destinations not currently served from the north.

Travel Mole reports Ryanair adding summer 16 capacity to Malaga as follows:

Bournemouth 6 to 7 weekly
Bristol 3 to 4 weekly
East Midlands 13 to 15 weekly
Leeds 7 to 8 weekly
Liverpool 9 to 11 weekly
Manchester 12 to 14 weekly
Glasgow Prestwick 6 to 7 weekly
Stansted 20 to 22 weekly

Brs is actually increased from 7 weekly to 9 per week

More than 100 million passengers in 2015
Welcome to Ryanair!

Timisoara will be base No 78 from November
Welcome to Ryanair!

FR announced following routes from TSR:
OTP 14/7
STN 7/7
BGY 5/7
CRL 3/7
SXF 2/7
NRN 2/7
HHN 2/7

FR clearly on a fast expansion curve with new aircraft arriving.

Timisoara
 

Announcing a new base and routes that will not start for another 10 months seems a little surprising - routes targeted at migrant labour don't usually get heavily booked up so far in advance. Is there perhaps some sort of pre-emptive land grab going on, to persuade another airline that opening up routes at Timisoara would be a bad idea ?

Ryanair, Europe’s favourite airline, today (15 Jan) announced further expansion to its Stansted Summer 2016 schedule.
A new route to Palanga in Lithuania.

.... direct competition with Wizz?? Wizz currently only have 1 route from Palanga, guess where to...? Luton!!!

Looks like Ryanair are going after Wizz with the last two announced routes/base.

Is it still the case that one of the largest shareholders in Wizzair is also in RYR? Big dog eat small dog, or might there be a merger, or is someone hedging bets?

Well Ryanair dropped Luton to Kaunas in favour of Vilnius from this summer putting them in competition with Wizz, meanwhile Wizz announced Palanga and quickly followed with their own Luton to Kaunas service, replacing Ryanair on the route. This also makes Wizz the only other scheduled airline to Kaunas other than Ryanair so it looks like the battle is hotting up between them, at least in Lithuanian skies.

There isn't another 40 million PAX growth out there without taking this from the competition.

Toulouse
 

RYR01 lands yesterday evening in TLS.

An Annoncement today

In French

Ryanair annonce une arrivée en force à Toulouse-Blagnac - 26/01/2016 - ladepeche.fr

New routes
 

Ryanair, today (26 Jan) announced flights at Toulouse Blagnac (its 32nd French airport) with 7 routes to/from Berlin, Brussels, Fez, London Stansted, Madrid, Malta and Warsaw from November 2016.

Will Carcassonne, Lourdes or (what's left of) Rodez now be de-emphasised ?

Apparently Michael O'Leary is hosting a conference in Brussels tomorrow. Hopefully he'll include a new route to Glasgow / Prestwick at reasonable times. The only flights to Belgium from Scotland are from Edinburgh.