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Was looking at the Girona newspaper today.
Ryanair have beaten all previous records by bringing in 60,200,000 passengers to Girona airport the last 12 months, six million in June 2009 alone.
This is "little" Girona airport, which up to eight years ago was closed for four months of the year as "too little traffic to warrent it being staffed".
Ryanair also fly into Barcelona and Barcelona-Reus, so heaven knows how many people they carry in total to the Costa Brava each year.
Fortunately we have only six weeks until they are all heading back home again, leaving us in peace !
Ryanair have beaten all previous records by bringing in 60,200,000 passengers to Girona airport the last 12 months, six million in June 2009 alone.
This is "little" Girona airport, which up to eight years ago was closed for four months of the year as "too little traffic to warrent it being staffed".
Ryanair also fly into Barcelona and Barcelona-Reus, so heaven knows how many people they carry in total to the Costa Brava each year.
Fortunately we have only six weeks until they are all heading back home again, leaving us in peace !
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This is "little" Girona airport, which up to eight years ago was closed for four months of the year as "too little traffic to warrent it being staffed".
Ryanair also fly into Barcelona and Barcelona-Reus, so heaven knows how many people they carry in total to the Costa Brava each year.
Ryanair also fly into Barcelona and Barcelona-Reus, so heaven knows how many people they carry in total to the Costa Brava each year.
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Although calling Girona "Girona-Barcelona" and Reus "Reus-Barcelona" is obviously geographically incorrect, they do fly to Barcelona, which they call Barcelona, and the rest of us call El Prat.
I know, we fly about 30 times a year out of Province Girona or Rouissilon, always with FR.
I know, we fly about 30 times a year out of Province Girona or Rouissilon, always with FR.
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Although calling Girona "Girona-Barcelona" and Reus "Reus-Barcelona" is obviously geographically incorrect,
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60,200,000 looks to me like Ryanair's total for passengers carried (correction: tickets sold) over the twelve month period rather than traffic at Girona alone.
P.S. Ryanair definitely does not fly to El Prat.
P.S. Ryanair definitely does not fly to El Prat.
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Ryanair:Standing Room Only?
In the news...
How would the SLF feel about this development?
Irish no-frills carrier Ryanair said it was in talks with US planemaker Boeing about adapting its aircraft so that some passengers could be placed in "vertical seating".
The low-cost carrier, which in recent months has suggested heavy passengers pay a "fat tax" and travellers pay to use its on-board toilets, said it wants to get more people onto its aircraft by ripping out traditional seating.
Ryanair is in discussions with Boeing "in relation to adapt the aircraft to allow people to travel in vertical seating", Ryanair spokesman Stephen McNamara said on Monday.
Passengers "wouldn't be fully standing, they would have something like a stool to lean on or to sit on", he added.
McNamara said Ryanair was looking into removing four rows, or 12 seats, of traditional seating on its planes to accommodate the standing room.
Chinese carrier Spring Airlines was in discussions with European planemaker Airbus about a similar plan, he noted
How would the SLF feel about this development?
Irish no-frills carrier Ryanair said it was in talks with US planemaker Boeing about adapting its aircraft so that some passengers could be placed in "vertical seating".
The low-cost carrier, which in recent months has suggested heavy passengers pay a "fat tax" and travellers pay to use its on-board toilets, said it wants to get more people onto its aircraft by ripping out traditional seating.
Ryanair is in discussions with Boeing "in relation to adapt the aircraft to allow people to travel in vertical seating", Ryanair spokesman Stephen McNamara said on Monday.
Passengers "wouldn't be fully standing, they would have something like a stool to lean on or to sit on", he added.
McNamara said Ryanair was looking into removing four rows, or 12 seats, of traditional seating on its planes to accommodate the standing room.
Chinese carrier Spring Airlines was in discussions with European planemaker Airbus about a similar plan, he noted
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Although calling Girona "Girona-Barcelona" and Reus "Reus-Barcelona" is obviously geographically incorrect, they do fly to Barcelona, which they call Barcelona, and the rest of us call El Prat.
The media imbeciles who print/feature this sort of nonsense are too dumb to realise that RYR obtain lots of FREE publicity this way. RYR periodically come up with some far fetched idea and present it to the media. Bingo, the name RYANAIR gets splashed all over the place and it doesn't cost them a bean. One thing that MOL and his henchmen do very very well is exploit all the idiots in this world!
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It's just more MOL Bullsh*t designed to get him some free publicity.
Next thing he'll have his Cabin Crew selling lucky clothes pegs or tarmacking your driveway for you.
It'll never happen.
(Searches in vain for the :wa: emoticon )
Next thing he'll have his Cabin Crew selling lucky clothes pegs or tarmacking your driveway for you.
It'll never happen.
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Have a look at this thread:
http://www.pprune.org/spectators-bal...-stand-up.html
And yes - i doubt it'll ever happen
http://www.pprune.org/spectators-bal...-stand-up.html
And yes - i doubt it'll ever happen
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60,200,000 looks to me like Ryanair's total for passengers carried
That's a negatory, Seat62K, or at least the newspaper said that was the number of Ryanair passengers transitting through Girona in the past 12 months. Given the very cosy relationship between Girona and FR I suspect the Tourist Board got the figures from FR.......
Bit fight for slots between LoCo's at El Prat currently.
That's a negatory, Seat62K, or at least the newspaper said that was the number of Ryanair passengers transitting through Girona in the past 12 months. Given the very cosy relationship between Girona and FR I suspect the Tourist Board got the figures from FR.......
Bit fight for slots between LoCo's at El Prat currently.
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That's a negatory, Seat62K, or at least the newspaper said that was the number of Ryanair passengers transitting through Girona in the past 12 months
I think someone got their figures wrong!
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From their own press release:-
Ryanair’s Stephen McNamara said:
“Ryanair’s growth of 13% to 5.8 million passengers for June and 60 million passengers for the 12 month period, establish new records for Europe’s largest airline. Ryanair is now on course to carry 67 million passengers in our full year”.
“Ryanair’s growth of 13% to 5.8 million passengers for June and 60 million passengers for the 12 month period, establish new records for Europe’s largest airline. Ryanair is now on course to carry 67 million passengers in our full year”.
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Recent Stansted + Ryanair Experience
Have not flown Ryanair since June 08, for various reasons. Flew early yesterday; bar code on on-line check-in paper did not scan at security, legged it back to a Ryanair desk and got a free re-issue. Security was quick and efficient with many lines manned and the flight left and arrived on time. Good day in Germany - I had booked a Corsa/Polo hire car and got a 1 series BMW! Return flight was very full but again on time. Passport Control was fully manned, baggage was on the belt as we reached it and we were driving out of the mid-stay car park 40 minutes after touchdown. Overall a satisfactory trip for £30 return and the BAA side of things seemed very efficient too.
Have FR cabin crew recently been told to push the sales of their new ciggarettes to customers particularly hard ?
Hearing how peach and strawberry flavour cigarettes can help you relax and can be smoked anywhere even with smoking restrictions (yes, they do contain nicotine), is just the kind of thing to encourage teenagers to pick up smoking. Not sure if I'm being an old f*rt over this, but something here seems to be going against much of Govt health policy within much of the EU
Hearing how peach and strawberry flavour cigarettes can help you relax and can be smoked anywhere even with smoking restrictions (yes, they do contain nicotine), is just the kind of thing to encourage teenagers to pick up smoking. Not sure if I'm being an old f*rt over this, but something here seems to be going against much of Govt health policy within much of the EU
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The media imbeciles who print/feature this sort of nonsense are too dumb to realise that RYR obtain lots of FREE publicity this way.
More specifically, what usually happens is that you give a regular advertiser a few freebies now and then, e.g. for every USD 10,000 of advertising we'll publish three press releases you fax us. To keep relations well-oiled an friendly, a corporation will wine & dine the journalists assigned to cover it, with little take-home gifts after coffee and the last digestif -- anything from a basket of the company's food products to a pair of airline tickets.
This is the way of our world.
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If you are an old f*rt then so am I as I agree totally. But surely there is another point here. I have not heard of these fruit flavoured ciggies that can be smoked anywhere. Let's assume it is true, can we now expect people to be lighting up in airports and aircraft? How many arguments is that going to cause? Taking it one step further, how long before some whizz kid repackages Benson & Hedges in a paper that says peach & strawberry down the side? "It's alright to smoke here guv, I'm on the fruit ones."
If you are an old f*rt then so am I as I agree totally. But surely there is another point here. I have not heard of these fruit flavoured ciggies that can be smoked anywhere. Let's assume it is true, can we now expect people to be lighting up in airports and aircraft? How many arguments is that going to cause? Taking it one step further, how long before some whizz kid repackages Benson & Hedges in a paper that says peach & strawberry down the side? "It's alright to smoke here guv, I'm on the fruit ones."
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Ryanair Question
hi, just wondering if anyone can help, I am flying Stansted to Hahn in September, and my connection is an hour after I land, does anyone know if there is some sort of passenger transit facility at Hahn? thanks
Hahn is not a big airport, at least from the commercial passenger standpoint. The departure and arrival halls are on the same floor and effectively part of one open plan building.
If you have checked baggage, you will need to collect it, before checking it in again (making a 1 hour connection really rather short). If you do not have checked baggage and your inbound flight arrives on time, you should make the connection provided have already checked in online for the 2nd flight and have the boarding card printout to hand, walk quickly and don't get stuck in any long queues - planes land pretty near to gates, and it's not far to walk from gate to main terminal area, to security and back to a gate again. On your flight to Hahn, it may be worth choosing a seat as near as possible to the front of the plane to ensure you can get be first down the steps and thus at the front of the immigration queue at arrivals, saving you a few extra minutes.
Not only do arrivals from outside the Schengen area need to clear German immigration, but passengers departing Hahn for somewhere outside the Schengen area also need to clear immigration to exit Germany- there are only 2 desks for this, and it can take time to clear a big queue of people.
Furthermore, the Ryanair desks at Hahn each have a highlighted page taped to the desk explaining that Ryanair doesn't offer formal connections and if the inbound is late, then it's your problem. This suggests that more than one person in the past has found themselves with a missed connection at Hahn, and Ryanair staff unwilling or unable to help.
If you have checked baggage, you will need to collect it, before checking it in again (making a 1 hour connection really rather short). If you do not have checked baggage and your inbound flight arrives on time, you should make the connection provided have already checked in online for the 2nd flight and have the boarding card printout to hand, walk quickly and don't get stuck in any long queues - planes land pretty near to gates, and it's not far to walk from gate to main terminal area, to security and back to a gate again. On your flight to Hahn, it may be worth choosing a seat as near as possible to the front of the plane to ensure you can get be first down the steps and thus at the front of the immigration queue at arrivals, saving you a few extra minutes.
Not only do arrivals from outside the Schengen area need to clear German immigration, but passengers departing Hahn for somewhere outside the Schengen area also need to clear immigration to exit Germany- there are only 2 desks for this, and it can take time to clear a big queue of people.
Furthermore, the Ryanair desks at Hahn each have a highlighted page taped to the desk explaining that Ryanair doesn't offer formal connections and if the inbound is late, then it's your problem. This suggests that more than one person in the past has found themselves with a missed connection at Hahn, and Ryanair staff unwilling or unable to help.
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