Just to confirm what has already been said, i understand it is a BFS based aircraft on a once daily flight.

Airlines probed over 'confusing' seating policy - BBC News

It appears that the CAA is mainly targeting Ryanair with this investigation and says that enforcement action will be taken if seating policy is not found to be 'transparent'.

The CAA targeting Ryanair, who'd have thought it.

Have they discovered that there are airlines registered in the UK yet?

If so, when will they start regulating them?

To be fair Ireland doesn't have a regulator as such.
Perhaps Ireland needs a proper regulator then the UK CAA won't need to get involved.

I think you'll find that the UK CAA can't get involved, the UK CAA have no jurisdiction in Republic of Ireland.

If a regulator really wants to get involved and is confident of Govt backing at a senior level (eg Secretary of State for Transport) and feels that alternative routes to solve the problem are ineffective, then they will get involved. A regulator that is perceived as ineffective (even if unfairly because it has no formal powers) may find itself with political problems of its own in the media or in Govt.

There are all kinds of ways the UK CAA can make trouble for non-UK airlines on an informal basis when on UK soil. While an airline can always challenge informal action through the courts, an airline may decide that modifying its behaviour slightly leads to a more positive outcome in the long term for the airline

Ryanair having applied for a UK AOC give the CAA enough to get involved.

Ryanair announce flights between Amman, Jordan and Paphos, Cyprus commencing in March 2018

https://www.aviationreg.ie/persons-w...edure.203.html
Here is the webpage of the Irish Aviation Regulator complaints. Help yourself.

The CAA main cause of concern is Ryanair charging for under 12s to sit with their parents, this is a mandatory instruction for an operator in the UK. This is for the safety of all onboard an aircraft, I certainly would be making sure I got to my daughter, to get her off the plane in an emergency as would most parents, it’s human nature. This is why the policy is in place, also woul you want your child sitting next to a stranger. I know of two investigations running currently at an airport in the UK where a passenger woke up to find the person next to them was sexually assaulting them.

Perhaps the UK need a proper regulator that regulates it's own airlines and holds them to the standards and the rules and regulations in the same way that they seem to require other foreign airlines to?

You will remember that last year that CAA took action against Ryanair in relation to cancellation of flights and were very heavy handed with them and said that Ryanair would need to take certain actions or face further action.

Well I had two similar issues with another carrier in the past for flights out of the UK with a UK airline and the CAA couldn't be less helpful and were not really interested in anything like the same teeth that they went after Ryanair with, they seem completely disinterested.

They did tell me however they appreciate my concerns and that they have 'written' to all UK airlines and asked them to reply indicating if they are complying with all the relevant compensation regulations - I'm sure that every single airline they wrote to were EXTREMELY stressed by such request - I mean why regulate UK airlines when you can just take their word for it?

I'm still waiting for them to take the same enforcement action against their own airline to force them to give me the compensation I am entitled to, but since they are a UK airline, it seems that the CAA have suddenly had all their teeth removed in enforcing the regulations they were so loud about only a few months ago.....

You didn't make the mistake of contacting them on a Friday afternoon did you when they are all down a boozer in Charlwood getting slaughtered at our expense?

Jordan
 

14 new routes to Amman and Aqaba in Jordan announced today from across Europe, nothing from the UK though.

Too long a route from the UK for Ryanair? Would it require crew to overnight there?

If Ryanair keep heading that way what's the chances of DWC to Europe soon

Is Jordan still going to require that tourists from European countries pay for a visa costing 60 pounds per person (and also pay a tax to leave Jordan) or are they going to change this policy ? If not it might put a dampener on inbound tourist demand for short breaks
And yes I know about the Jordan Pass scheme but adding bureaucracy never encourages customer demand for a product...

Jerry123 - EasyJet have previously done LGW-AMM as a day trip. Similar length to SSH.

Routes to Amman and Aqaba
https://corporate.ryanair.com/news/b7oluru3xt4lgj/

January traffic grows 6%
https://corporate.ryanair.com/news/j...-3m-customers/

Q3 profits rise 12%
https://corporate.ryanair.com/news/q...-40bn-e1-45bn/

Ryanair launches winter 2018 schedule from/to Spain

29 new routes.

Barcelona (1) Malta 4 semanales

Palma (3)
Milán Bérgamo 2 semanales
Roma Ciampino 2 semanales
Dusseldorf Weeze 2 semanales

Alicante (3)
Bolonia 2 semanales
Gdansk (Polonia) 2 semanales
Newquay (Reino Unido) 2 semanales

Valencia (6)
Burdeos 2 semanales
Cagliari 2 semanales
Fez 2 semanales
Tánger 2 semanales
Bristol 2 semanales
Palermo 2 semanales

Sevilla (13)
Bristol 2 semanales
Alicante 3 semanales
Cagliari 2 semanales
Catania 2 semanales
Malta 2 semanales
Edimburgo 2 semanales
Fuerteventura 2 semanales
Luxemburgo 2 semanales
Nantes 2 semanales
Oporto 3 semanales
Rabat 2 semanales
Tánger 2 semanales
Venecia Treviso 3 semanales

Tenerife Sur (1)
Milán Malpensa 2 semanales

Gran Canaria (1)
Venecia Treviso 2 semanales

Santander (1)
Budapest 2 semanales

https://corporate.ryanair.com/news/r...ana/?market=es

Ryanair launches winter 2018 schedule from/to Spain

Please do not let Prune become a clone to RYR's website.

Airlines, Airports & Routes Topics about airports, routes and airline business.

Says so at the top.

I’m so sorry for you, but this is just information about 29 new routes.

We can do the same when another airline launches new routes... Strange comment.

What is significant is that so few of the routes involve the UK, hardly surprising when every other economy is growing faster than ours.

It will also be interesting to see whether any routes are being dropped. No airline makes any noise about those...

#cosbrexit?
I would say the UK loco market is now mature, the capacity for the same levels of growth just isn't there. That's not a bad thing either.

News which does, or doesn't, merit posting here....
 

https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2017/...yanair-pilots/

Given that it is almost 3 months since this decision, of the utmost interest to the community to whom this website is apparently addressed, in my considered opinion,the fact that it has not yet been posted, still less discussed, intrigues me.

There are no grounds to infer a lack of confidence in the UK market from those new route announcements. They relate to bases which are already well-connected with U.K. airports. So they can't be presented as new routes. That doesn't mean frequencies can't be increased on those UK routes though. So no conclusions on brexit to be drawn here.

BigFrank

It is indeed surprising that no Irish posters posted it. Since I don't think it was picked up by the UK media, there's no way that we would have come across the case.

This might be of interest to Ryanair pilots
Over 100 BBC stars face paying back thousands in tax as HMRC wins claim against presenter

Ryanair are rumoured to be in talks about restarting from Manston with a 3/4 a/c base, assuming the bid to make it a cargo airport are successful.

Not sure which part is the crazier, but Ryanair haven't particularly denied it, just a bog standard rely: "While we are always interested in new routes, we don't comment on rumour or speculation."

Anyone think this could work?

No. If they ever went to Manston, and that is a massive if, at best it would be a handful of weekly flights to Alicante, Faro etc operated from overseas

Manston
 

Ryanair would be MSE’s only option in my view for pax operations. It is about the only airline left that could offer the airport a glimmer of hope, that’s IF it ever reopened. Ryanair are very good at stimulating traffic at airports so far from anywhere.

My only reservation would be that before the terminal opened at BOH were they too not promised multiple based airframes?

Look, EUJet and Flybe gave Manston a shot and failed ... Not so far from Manston is EZY's largest operasting base of LGW, the other side of the Dartford there is RYR & EZY at STN, ditto for LTN, the best hope for Manston is they develop a maintenance base such as CWL has done, even Lasham has done, I read a recent comment that NQY might be turning itself around with some none scheduled service activities, but RYR and Manston ... Now there's a laugh :)

Operation out of (Frankfurt) Hahn will be further reduced. Down to 4 based aircraft next summer with Porto, Treviso, Valencia, Zadar and Plovdiv to be axed. All except Plovdiv operated out of Frankfurt (Main).
https://corporate.ryanair.com/news/r...uge/?market=de

Timisoara base will be closed - BGY-TSR and OTP-TSR to remain, all other routes to be axed.
https://corporate.ryanair.com/news/t...ext/?market=ro

All routes are on sale for next winter 2018’19

What’s wrong with Glasgow? Just Dublin on sale.

Operation out of (Frankfurt) Hahn will be further reduced. Down to 4 based aircraft next summer

Ouch. 10 years ago HHN had 8/9 a/c with plans for a new terminal and 20 a/c within a few years. Hotels sprung up at the airport. Bus services, taxi services, restaurants, cap parks. RYR brings a/c and jobs to your community. We shall bring 500,000 pax per a/c and 00's of jobs.
So how many jobs are they on the scrap heap as they leave? There are 2 sides to every coin, but only one it trumpeted. Cynical? Yep. The hoteliers will go bust and the bus services will struggle etc. etc.

You can't blame Ryanair. Hahn management should have looked to diversify their airline portfolio. It isn't a smart business strategy to bank all hopes on one airline, especially one that is known for axing routes at a moment's notice.

It has gone very quiet at Glasgow for many things like no passenger figures yet published for Jan, new management team at AGS so we can look at no news is good news or the .... has hit the fan and Ryanair drastically reducing routes. Though it’s not just DUB, LDY has been confirmed!

The bloodbath in Eastern-Europe (where they kill Wizz Air) has started.

So with TSR, Wizz Air wins another battle.

There is also evidence that Ryanair are struggling in Bulgaria. Sofia appears to be one of the weakest bases, flights to Plovdiv are being scaled back (again), and it is not clear if Burgas will operate as a base next winter.

They may not have posted them on their website, but they were released on the same day as EDI and Aberdeen. Down 3%, I think, blaming loss of EWR and weather disruption.