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?