I assume this covers TUI customers who may now find themselves on a RYR flight.

PDL dropped
 

Very sad to see Ponta Delgada dropped in a fit of pique by FR. We've been visiting for a number of years now and love it there. Now FR won't even fly in from LIS or OPO, never mind STN. Any chance that the Portuguese authorities might intervene to get the flights back? As it is, now there's only BA's expensive seasonal direct flight. Maybe Azores Airlines will relaunch LGW, although they appear to be broke..

The president of Visit Azores, responsible for promoting tourism in the Azores, today considered Ryanair's announcement of its departure from the region as a “form of negotiating pressure,” warning that the process is not “completely closed."

Indeed, Ryanair are no doubt playing the situation in the Azores to their advantage. With Azores Airlines at threat of closure if a privatisation deal isn't successful, this leaves the Azores in a particularly desperate situation. Either the privatasion will happen and Azores Airlines will make it's own commercial decisions, or they'll be little option but to bow down to Ryanair's demands to keep a reasonable level of service and prevent the implications of a TAP monopoly on routes to Lisbon and Porto.

Sat, 29 November 2025 at 6:00 am GMT
Always best to do what you do best.

G-RYMA B38M currently on delivery flight BFI -STN.

Rabat will be a new base in summer 2026 with 2 aircraft
https://corporate.ryanair.com/news/r...base-in-rabat/

Can Ryanair UK and DAC crew fly together? For example if Ryanair UK decided to base 1 aircraft in BOH which is a DAC 2 aircraft base, would they still be able to get the efficiencies they need from the base or would it be more complex than that?

What is DAC?
Irish registered aircraft and Ryanair UK are on a different AOC so, no, you cannot easily mix and match.

No, they can't unfortunately, because the UK CAA is no longer participating in EASA. RUK is the only exception in the Ryanair Group, as RYR, RYS and MAY are fully interchangeable nowadays.

The three a/c NCL base regularly has Malta and Buzz a/c operating as based a/c. No idea how they are crewed.

NCL is a RYR crew base.

So is PIK and you see non Irish registered aircraft operating based rotations on occasion
Which is better than BA as the LGW fleet can't easily operate mainline LHR routes like before as they're on a seperate AOC.

Which is for industrial/contractual reasons rather than impossibility.

Pre Brexit TUI UK and TUI Nordic were effectively operating on a single AOC - in reality they had dual AOCs but perfectly mirrored so anyone could do anything whether it was a G- or SE- registered aircraft. So the UK CAA will allow mixing of AOCs, just not with foreign ones anymore for obvious reasons.

How about EDI?

Will all UK bases eventually transition to RUK aircraft and crew?

No. This has all been discussed on here many times.

All Ryanair crew can interchangeably operate on their whole fleet regardless of AOC/registration. There may be slight differences that need to be briefed prior to operation per each, but its simply a swipe of a button an ipad to cover that off. The exception to this ofcourse is pilots on the Airbus fleet of Lauda. That's purely because of the aircraft type difference. Also G- registered aircraft, due to them not falling under EASA rules has some exceptions on operation, although ultimately the aircraft and safety equipment is identical to the rest of the fleet.

The G- registered aircraft are purely for operating on flights ex-UK to and from non-EU destinations and UK domestic. There would be no need for all Ryanair aircraft based in the UK to be G- registered. It would instantly restrict a huge number of their aircraft being interchangeable throughout their operation when the majority of flights are to and from EU destinations.

Please note, this is nothing to do with crew contracts. Thats a seperate conversation altogether and depends on the entity of the company on which their contract is signed.

4th Aircraft for TIRANA and new routes

Alghero
Eindhoven
Genoa
Karlsruhe Baden
Marseille
Memmingen
Naples
Parma
Wroclaw

Anyone any update on the following routes taken off sale for summer 2026 -

BFS to

BUD
GDN
KUN

Thanks in advance 🙂

Big Idiot Sale
 

This spat between Musk and MOL could turn out to be quite entertaining. A very wealthy Irish Man with a very thick skin and a sense of humour against the richest man in the world (this week) with a thin skin and lots of issues. So far only calling one another idiots but it's already launched the Big Idiot Sale. Popcorn time.

Popcorn at the ready!