Size of Ryanair UK Bases?
 

Just asking out of curiosity, is anyone able to advise of the size of Ryanair's UK bases and how many aircraft are based at each of the airports?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...l-screwed.html

What will the implication be from these claims?
Perhaps an attempt to deal with a successful competitor who Ryanair have failed to chase out of town (Jet2) and for Norwegian, how impactful are claims like this?

Absolutely no impact if as people demand these airlines sue, they won't.

Correct in highlighting ineffectiveness of CAA, correct in highlighting the issues with Norwegian, he indicated 2 yrs ago that Norwegian was burning through cash, anazing the press caught up with that idea when Norwegian needed cash all of a sudden, correct in highlighting that shop model for holidays in dead, even TC has only 35% bought in store.

Elements in the press hate Ryanair, for decades it was fares too cheap so they dangerous as don't carry out maintenance (debunked by David Learmont), don't properly train their pilots, pilots on minimum wage, they are Irish so pilots are drunks etc etc.

In the industry Michael O'Leary is generally the "canary in the mine" who is first to highlight issues well in advance for other airlines, in many cases, as I have said here previously by doing it the agenda is changed and opens the door for others to publicly comment.

The new flight between MARSEILLE and TEL AVIV supposed to be the 29/10 will neveR staRt ! they Removed all flights fRom the booking system ! do you know why ?

BFS Base
Is anyone able to explain what's happening to the BFS base come November?
The current schedule from November onwards is showing timings that would require a BFS based aircraft to operate a AGP on a Thursday evening, STN on a Friday afternoon, and again on a Sunday evening, with all other flights operated from other bases.... Is the schedule going to change (even though we are so close to November) with these based flights changed to being operated from other bases, or will one aircraft still be based at BFS and only operate three times a week?

NEW ROUTE

Katowice to Alghero

2pw begins 02 June 2020

In total 4 flights pw between KTW and AHO ! 2 operated by Wizzair (Thu,Sun) and 2 by ryanair sun (Tue,Sat)

New route

Marseille - Alghero

2pw begins 03 April 2019

New route

Brussels- Charleroi to Nantes
4pw
Begins March 2020

New routes

Wroclaw - Cagliari
2pw
Begins 03 April 2020

Cagliari - Trieste
2pw
Begins 02 April 2020

OK, let's than notice Ryanair's entrance to Helsinki-Vantaa from the start of Summer season. Daily flights from Vienna will be performed by Lauda. VIE will also be linked to another Finnish airport - guess what - "black horse" Lappeenranta, 2pw. Since the EU citizens can apply for free e-visas to St. Petersburg now, it will create great opportunities, I guess.

New routes

Toulouse-Palma
2pw Begins 03 April 2020

Zaragoza-Marrakesh
2pw Begins 01 April 2020

Malaga-Vitoria
3pw Begins April 2020

New route and new airport

Krakow to Kherson (Ukraine)
2pw
Begins 21 December 2019

Sounds like Ryanair are still willing to take a chance on a few 'middle-of-nowhere' destinations...

New route

Warsaw Modlin - Kharkiv
2pw
Begins 03 June 2020

They have announced 19 new routes, you have now posted about 2 of them. Ryanair nowadays seem to add new routes to reservation systems with a delay, not at the time of announcement as they did in the past.

https://corporate.ryanair.com/news/r...020/?market=ua

Most of the new Ukraine routes are for Ukrainians now working in Eastern Europe, especially Poland.
FR has also announced flights to Yerevan and Gyumri in Armenia.

Ryanair will close their Hamburg base with two aircraft from January 2020 closing 7 routes and continuing to operate 14 routes. Base closure due to poor yields on certain routes.

New routes

Hahn to Agadir ( 2pw Begins 3 April 2020)
Hahn to Kefalonia (2pw Begins 2 May 2020)
Hahn to rijeka (1pw Begins 4 April 2020)
Hahn to Treviso (4pw resumes 1 April 2020)

Due to the impending Ryanair base closures in Girona, Arrecife, Las Palmas and Tenerife.
432 Spanish based flight & cabin crew members have today been given there redundancy notice.

https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2019/...cies-in-spain/

There are currently between 2.5 to 3 million Ukranian people in Poland since 2014.

Many left because of what happened post Maidan and a desire by the Govt and paramilitaries to conscript people into their militias. Many people know the story about the last time there was men in Uniform doing forced military conscription and that was in 1941/42 by the Nazi's as anybody who knows Ukrainians living in UK from the period with testify to.

Not so as they know where the Ukrainians have settled in Poland.

Eye-opening! (taken from ch-aviation)

Buzz, the wholly-owned Polish subsidiary of Ryanair Holdings, is set to increase its role in the group as it prepares to take over a further two Central European bases and potentially personnel from closing Spanish bases.

Chief Executive Michał Kaczmarzyk told Polish aviation website Fly4Free that Buzz - which is in the process of rebranding from Ryanair Sun - will take over the operation of Ryanair bases at Prague Ruzyne and Sofia on November 1.

The Irish LCC currently has five B737-800s based out of Prague and three out of Sofia. According to the ch-aviation capacities module, it operates 150 and 89 weekly scheduled departures out of the two capitals, respectively.

As previously reported, Buzz will also take over the operation of Ryanair's Budapest base as of December 1, 2019. The Polish airline has a lower cost base than its Irish sister and is, therefore, able to more efficiently compete with Wizz Air. Buzz already operates all of Ryanair's bases in Poland; at Gdansk, Kraków, Poznan, Warsaw Modlin, and Wroclaw airports.

Separately, Spanish media have reported that Ryanair offered 432 staff members, currently employed at four bases in the country which are due to be closed in early 2020, voluntary relocation to Croatia, Poland, or the United Kingdom as an alternative to layoffs. Those who choose to move to Croatia would be employed by Malta Air, another subsidiary of Ryanair, staff in Poland would be hired by Buzz, while employees who move to the UK would work for Ryanair UK. In any case, affected employees would lose their seniority benefits and terms guaranteed under Spanish labour law, labour union USO (Unión Sindical Obrera) said in a statement quoted by El Pais daily.

Ryanair plans to close bases at Girona, Lanzarote, Tenerife Sur, and Las Palmas airports on January 8, 2020.

New Routes

London-SEN to Bergerac (3pw) 31/03/2020
London-SEN to Gerona (2pw) 01/04/2020
London-SEN to Marseille (2pw) 01/04/2020

Buzz aircraft (Polish-registered but Ryanair-liveried 737s) have operated the first two KRK-LTN services, but using an FR flight number. How far will Buzz go in separating itself from Ryanair - livery? - flight numbers? - website?

Malta Air
 

New route

Hahn to Banja-Luka ( 2pw Begins 3 February 2020)

regarding the website for S20 in Girona , Eindhoven and Charleroi will be operating by A/C based at Girona ! 2 mornings departures ! are they going to change the scheduled ? or Girona will be again a base for summer season ?

22 B738s have been re-registered in Malta to date. Will these all wear Malta Air colours, or will the harp remain?

NEW ROUTES

Bucharest OTP-Kavala 1pw (06/06/2020)
Gdansk-Zadar 3pw (31/03/2020)
Katowice-Burgas 2pw (01/06/2020)
Katowice-Kherson 2pw (15/01/2020)
Poznan-Pafos 1pw (01/04/2020)
Warsaw WMI-Pafos 1pw (02/04/2020)

Kherson, in southern Ukraine, looks like a new destination for Ryanair.

New Route

Krakow to Podgorica

2pw Begins 23 FEB 2020

New route

Poznan to Podgorica

2pw Begins 30 March 2020.

Flight - Ryanair axes bases as it trims Max fleet outlook again

Hadn't realised the scale of the transfers away from mainline, especially given the lack of new MAX deliveries :

EI- 369 82%
SP- 32 7%
9H- 50 11%

18% of mainline has been "off-shored" which is way more than I had reckoned. Real pains as Ryanair really matures as a business, opportunities for real growth swapped for opportunities to cut costs further. #classicryanair

Plus 1x 'G'... in the form of G-RUKA.

Although this technically operates under the same way as the EI- Ryanair with the same crews under the same conditions.