For the MAX - and the 738's?

I still don't get it. I can't book a flight through a Buzz or Lauda website as it directs me to Ryanair so pax still think they're booking Ryanair so the different brands to alleviate fears about Ryanair'a customer service doesn't seem to make sense.

I believe, ISTBC that only new delivery MAXs wear non Ryanair livery, the remainder got flag swap and a new reg.

Wasn't it all a union busting move to divide the pilot community into three smaller groups vs. one powerful whole?

Wasn't it all a uniom

Same deal as IAG then

The most logical explanation! Doesn't make sense otherwise.

STN - PDL
 

FR flights to the Azores from London seem to disappear after Christmas. Admittedly, they tend to be only once a week anyway but are they likely to return for the summer season and when would flights become available do you think? Thank you :)

A few days ago, I made a booking on the Ryanair website (no, it wasn't some fake website) for a one way flight in my own name, using a credit card in my own name. I've now received an email from FR saying my booking was made by an online travel agent or a bot and therefore I need to be at the checkin desk at least 2 hours in advance to check in (or presumably 3 hours to allow for a queue), or spend more money and pass all my biometric details from my passport to some muppet in a call centre and risk identity fraud. Furthermore, access to the booking has been removed when I visit the FR website or look at the Ryanair app on my phone. Web support are hopeless. Any idea as to what one needs to do in future to prevent this happening ? Is it compulsory to book car hire when I fly FR or is there a maximum number of bookings allowed per year per person ?

I've flown with FR about 40 times since the start of 2022, but am very reluctant to use them if there is a risk of having to turn up at the airport 3 hours to checkin

Did you use your work IP? If so, knowing where you used to work and assuming you still work in similar, it may be that. Or did your cookies raise a red flag? They don't like 3rd parties!

3rd based a/c this winter in Memmingen but only 7 at Berlin

Former FR destination has FR routes again as one of the (presumably) last post-Covid lockdown/quarantine reopenings - Eilat Ramon in Israel to Paris-Beauvais, Brussels-Charleroi, Kaunas and Krakow, each 2x weekly from mid December 2022, all likely to be winter seasonal

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...nt-exisit.html

Slightly surprised that Ryanair subbed the scheduled MAX for a standard B73H and still didn't cancel the boarding card in the system. Seems they boarded to literally find no seat, booked Row 35 in a 33 row aircraft.

No mention of whether they tried to seek volunteers to offload. But then that's what you get from 'journos' who write articles based on trawling the internet for stories and doing a copy and paste

Newquay back from Stansted. I remember ex Continental -300s on the route.

Ryanair seem to have a problem with pre-booked seats on a config change. In September I had 3 seats booked in row 28 of a B738 but due to French ATC strikes I had to transfer to a flight operated by a MAX the next day.....now row 28 only had 2 seats and the system wouldn't allow me to change them, and wouldn't allow me to complete the rebooking unless I paid for what were now emergency exit seats. Bit annoyed to say the least that I paid for the dubious privilege of having my party split up into exit seats we didn't want!

I received the same e mail yesterday from Ryanair (looks a genuine e mail) after I booked a flight on the app 24hrs earlier. Again, I used my own phone, connected to my own wifi and paid using my own credit card.
At the bottom of the e mail, this is stated:IN ORDER TO RESOLVE THESE ISSUES, YOU HAVE THE OPTION TO CHECK-IN BY:

ONLINE VERIFICATION
· A passenger on this booking can verify using facial recognition technology.
· This service is provided on the Ryanair website for a fee of €0.35.
· Online Verification allows you to manage your booking via Ryanair.com.

What is going on? They are an absolute nightmare to contact over the phone or via social media!
The e mail also states to attend the Ryanair ticket desk 120mins prior to departure...which in my case happens to be Stansted, so I assume there is a ticket desk in the check in hall?

Ryanair
 

Interesting to note this week the number of Ryanair passengers connecting from 1 FR flight to another.
Saw several boarding passes today routing BHX/ARN/GOT and yesterday at least a couple changing in Sofia to another FR flight
Is this a new thing as never noticed Ryanair offering this service before as they always seemed just a point to point airline, Also wondering what happens if initial flight is delayed and connection is missed

4th based aircraft at Paphos next summer
https://corporate.ryanair.com/media-centre/our-news/cy/

Bases at Tenerife and Lanzarote will be re-opened with each 2 based aircraft next summer
https://corporate.ryanair.com/spanis...-23/?market=es

Regarding FR "connecting" flights, no this is not a new service! FR still don't officially sell connecting through flights but flight search engines regularly bring such connections up when searching. If you have the time you can find your own routings using the FR app as not all suitable connections come up on Skyscanner etc
​​​​​​However buyer beware. Although often ridiculously cheap they are not official connecting flights (you buy two separate flights) and you will be left high and dry if something goes wrong. Therefore you need to allow a good amount of time between connections so it's not necessarily the fastest routing!

Having said that, this year I've flown BHX - BGY - CTA and AGA - PGF - BHX without any incident and at a very cheap price.
This week I'm flying BHX - MAD - AGA then AGA - DUB - BHX so fingers crossed.....

Libya ? Is this one of those lines designed to makes headlines, like in 2008 when business class was described as "beds and blow jobs" ?

Not happy that Easy & Wizz are having fun in Egypt without them. I suspect Wizz will have bigger plans and Saudi would be a logical next step. One big new Riyadh airport to fill, Red Sea International and Neom to come online.
Libya as you say must just be a headline grabber only.

I wouldn’t say they are having fun. Ryanair is the only one of the three making money. But if the incentives are right, which shouldn’t be too hard with the Saudi’s then Ryanair will probably come.

Possible 4 new (or restarted) routes to Craiova in Romania
https://boardingpass.ro/craiova-este...aniei-ryanair/
Iasi in Romania apparently also being considered
https://boardingpass.ro/ryanair-ar-urma-sa-anunte-prima-sa-ruta-regulata-spre-iasi/

I've noticed that there are routes for which one can buy tickets on the FR website, but which are not listed at all on the Android app. No, not some obscure charter route, but mainstream routes.
Is this simply because FR's IT systems are sufficiently bad that they're overly reliant on humans to update multiple systems manually whenever something changes (and human error creeps in too easily) or is there a better reason ?

Well, what about some ghost routes listed everywhere with no plans to revive them? Like e.g. Budapest - Lappeenranta, terminated months and months ago... still manual work to be done?

Hard to book any PIK S23 routes at all on the app- A booking update going on?

3 days now and essentially nothing bookable from PIK.. either they’ve lost three days worth of bookings or somethings ‘stirring’.

PIK S 23
 

Eh no, it's been 3 WEEKS plus since FR suspended PIK S23 sales. It appears they are playing a very tough game with GLA who appear increasingly desperate to attract and retain traffic. FR only last week advertised for PIK based Cabin Crew so it appears complete withdrawal from PIK is unlikely.

New routes from Porto

Bristol
Castellon
Leeds Bradford
Nîmes
Stockholm Arlanda
Trapani
Turin

All begin March 2023

OPO and FAO will each get 2 additional a/c - 22 in total but don't know the exact allocation between the airports.

In the UK so far, BHX (from 5 to 6), BRS (from 4 to 5) and BOU (from 1 to 2) will get additional a/c.
NRN will get a 4th and FKB a 3rd next summer, PFO as well as SNN will be increased to 3 a/c.

BFS, TFS and ACE will be bases once again with each 2 a/c.

MAN is getting an extra aircraft taking it to 16 based

23 departing Ryanair pax at London Stansted stuck in locked jetway corridor after boarding card reconciliation at gate, flight departs without them.

London Stansted Ryanair passenger furious after 23 miss flight because they were locked in corridor for 30 minutes (msn.com)

I always like to think that, whatever commercial issues they may have with passengers, the detailed ops side of Ryanair runs a pretty tight ship with their procedures. But one struggles to understand how they could have closed the door 23 pax light compared to the signed loadsheet, or have set off with their baggage unreconciled.

Wonder if the CAA can be bothered to take an interest. By the glib statement from the airline, they seem pretty couldn't-care-less about it.

LPL is going from 3 to 4 this year.

LBA remains 3x based aircraft for summer but we switch to 2x Boeing 737-800's & 1x Boeing 737-MAX-800.

Do we know if EMA is 7 AC this year or more??

EMA
 

Believed to be 8 from 1st June around 165 flights per week up from 137

Pete

Challenging Wizz, FR will base more aircraft at Milan and Rome next summer:

Milan: 30 a/c in total with MXP up to 8 a/c (incl. 2 737-MAX-800) with expected 4.5 million passengers per year and BGY 22 a/c (incl. 10 737-MAX-800) with expected 13 million passengers per year.

Rome (FCO and CIA) will have 15 a/c.

BRU base won't be re-open this summer.

UK internal domestic flights showing being operated by Air Explore. Anyone know why they are chartering another Airline?