New Ryanair Routes and wrong advertising!

[nickmanl]

Seems Ryanair is taking up Easy's old route from Stansted by operating Stansted - Grenoble, plus further frequencies on Polish routes.

Just checked their statement they are 97% cheaper than EasyJet on the route, and boy were they wrong

Flying out Stansted to Grenoble 29/09, returing 30/09 is a round trip of £40.25.

With easyJet on the same dates Luton to Grenoble the price is £33.64, meaning easyJet are around 15% cheaper.

Do you reckon I should point out their mistake? Then again, I think they now damn well what they are doing, but surely they cannot carry on with false advertising?

[EK-LHR-LGW-GLA-MAN-B]

Could it maybe be selected dates that they are 90% cheaper?

[GrahamK]

They probably checked the prices for EZY tomorrow, then compared them to their own prices for flights in 6 months time ;)

[The SSK]

Normally when they do this they are referring to the cheapest advertised price - 99p against £29.99 or whatever.

[allanmack]

Don't know if the advertising is wrong as they have stipulated the following on their website:

FARE TABLE
*Fare source: Easyjet website, one-way fares London Luton to Grenoble ex taxes booking 17.06.05, travel 23.09.05
**Fare source: BA website, one-way fares ex taxes from London Heathrow to Vilnius (closest airport) booking 17.06.05 for travel 25.09.05
***Fare source LOT website, one-way fares ex taxes London Heathrow to Poznan (via Warsaw) booking 17.06.05 for travel 23.09.05
****Fare source: BA website, one-way fares ex taxes from London Heathrow to Warsaw (closest airport) booking 17.06.05 for travel 30.10.05
All Ryanair fares one-way ex taxes. Where possible start date of routes have been chosen for comparison

[nickmanl]

oh dear, oh well moral of the story (and life for that matter) always read the small print!

[FormerFlyer]

So who do I fly with if I actually want to end up where FR take me?

Hmmmm :\

cheers ;)
FF

[Powerjet1]

Read in the FT that ryan would withdraw up to five if its worse performing routes in Sept. Any ideas what they might be ?

[nickmanl]

That is a surprise, although they've threatened recently the Newquay and Derry airport authorities, so maybe these might feature, although I'm sure Newquay is quite profitable!

My bet would be a couple of the Stansted routes, I'm pretty sure most of the Luton flights are experiencing excellent load factors.

[anna_list]

It's a bit difficult to tell, since the full Winter schedule has not yet been released.

A frequency increase on STN - LDY was announced yesterday, but is not yet available for booking.

STN - RDZ and STN - FNI are not currently bookable from November onwards.

STN - NQY is currently bookable from November onwards (2x daily).

CIA - EIN is not currently bookable from November onwards (most other CIA flights are now bookable).

Winter flights from LTN, LPL, GRO and BGY don't appear to have been released yet.

[initial]

Have noticed on the Ryanair website - Murcia is now called 'Alicante South'

[airhumberside]

Didnt Virgin Express do that as well?