Ryanair in 2012

[convair]

Come on...

[cnc]

OMG, CNC were you born in 1902 or something?
Or are you just that downright pretentious to say that only upper class people are allowed to fly?

Reminds me of a quote from "Titanic":
Rose: Half of the people on this ship are going to die.
Calledon: Not the better half

don't put words in my mouth

[sean1982]

and yes all cheap asses and poor people flying FR are to blame too.

I'm not

[Afroja86]

Unit costs rose 11% mainly due to an 18% increase in fuel costs. Excluding fuel, sector length adjusted unit costs fell 1%, as we aggressively controlled costs despite a 2% basic pay increase, higher Eurocontrol fees, and substantially higher Dublin Airport charges.

[airazurxtror]

Statistics for June 2012:

7,79 million pax (+ 0,46 m on June 2011), load factor : 84 % (same as June 2011)

12 months to June 2012 : 77,08 M pax, LF 82 %.

http://www.ryanair.com/ie/news/ryanair- ... passengers

[airazurxtror]

Q1 results : traffic growths, profits decline ...

http://www.ryanair.com/ie/news/ryanair- ... -unchanged

Extract :

Ryanair’s CEO, Michael O’Leary, said:
"As we previously guided, significantly higher fuel costs caused Q1 profits to fall by €40m (from €139m last year’s) to €99m. Our 6% traffic growth combined with a 4% rise in ave. fares led to an 11% increase in Revenues. Ancillary sales grew by 15% to €286m (outpacing traffic growth) accounting for 22% of total revenues. Operating unit costs rose 10% as fuel increased 27% (by €117m) to €544m. Fuel amounted to 47% of total operating costs.

[sn26567]

A praise for Ryanair's customer service! It doesn't happen often, here it is:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver ... of_ryanair

In brief, a woman had to cancel her flight because the funeral to which she had to fly was postponed. She got an answer within minutes and a refund within 24 hours, although the general conditions say that "All Ryanair flights are fully changeable but cannot be cancelled".

[B.Inventive]

Just in reply to CNC's bold statement.
I wouldn't agree to it per sé, though some truth is to be found.
the concept Ryanair is presenting is making people believe flying is possible for no money. Or basically saying a flight from A to B doesn't cost anything, doesn't pollute anything, doesn't consume anything, doesn't involve working people.
This is not true, and it is not fair to trick people into believing this. Flight's are not cheap, not for SN, not for FR. Though FR is getting a lot of money out of "other incomes", one can argue the sales of in flight catering is not to be 'booo-ed' though the income from oppressing governments (local) into paying for all expenses that should normally be theirs, evading taxes on 'a' level are means for them to sustain that image.
less educated people fly to now, and they REALLY believe aviation is cheap. They have no recognition of the fact when they put their ass down in an airplane they are in fact doing so in a multi million dollar piece of equipment consuming thousands of euro's per hour. This 'idea' is plain wrong. Aviation is NOT cheap.
This is not saying aviation should only be for 'the rich' at all, though all factors combined I think the prices have plummeted a tad on the wrong side.... (if you were to know the operational cost of any jet flight per hour.... )

[Novastar]

Whats wrong with the price if they;

- can do it at this price
- still make (a lot of) profit

??


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[cnc]

Whats wrong with the price if they;

- can do it at this price
- still make (a lot of) profit

??


Verstuurd van mijn GT-I9000 met Tapatalk

if you pay me 10 euro per km i can show you a bugatti veyron can be more profitable in fuel economics then a toyota.

For me FR is one of the worst airlines because the operational result is horrible. doesn't matter how much tax money they get

[Acid-drop]

again, just the same as sncb or any bus public transport in belgium... Its not the aviation world but subsidies are everywhere and they seems happy

[airazurxtror]

July 2012 : 8,72 million pax (+ 645.000 on 2011), load factor 88% ( - 1%).
Last 12 months : 77,72 M Passengers

http://www.ryanair.com/en/news/ryanair- ... passengers

[airazurxtror]

http://www.independent.ie/business/iris ... 14895.html

Ryanair plans to make a fourth bid to buy Aer Lingus in January if European competition watchdogs give the all-clear to a takeover after officials said yesterday that they were launching an intense probe of the planned acquisition.
The European Commission announced in Brussels that it is initiating a so-called Phase II investigation of Ryanair's intended €694m buyout of its rival.
The commission has until January 14 to complete its investigation.
Ryanair immediately said that its existing offer -- priced at €1.30 per Aer Lingus share -- has now lapsed under takeover rules due to the Phase II assessment.
Ryanair intends to re-bid for Aer Lingus if the European Commission clears its offer following its Phase II review," the airline added.
Analyst Gerard Moore at Merrion Stockbrokers said he expected a New Year bid -- if it materialises -- to be the same €1.30 per share offer that was on the table up until yesterday. He said the market was probably betting Ryanair had a 30pc chance of securing EC approval.
Mr Moore added that even if Ryanair agreed to yield about one-third of Aer Lingus short-haul routes in order to persuade the commission, buying its rival would still be attractive.

[airazurxtror]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/news ... ition.html

Meridiana - Air Italy will stop the Verona-Bari and Milan Linate-Bari connections as of September 16.
Said the Italian airline : small airports in Italy gave funds to Ryanair for it to develop international routes, but the Irish carrier is using the money to subsidise flights within Italy, directly competing with local carriers.

Its comments got short shrift from Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary, who noted its Italian rival had just posted €60.9m (£48m) losses in the past half year following pro-forma losses of €111m last year and €105m in 2010.

“The problem is they have a high cost base and can’t compete with us,” he said. “I think they have already claimed we are responsible for civil war in Syria and famine in Ethiopia.

[airazurxtror]

http://www.lalibre.be/economie/actualit ... moins.html

Ryanair and Charleroi Brussels South Airport (BSCA) have signed a new collaboration agreement which runs until 2022.

[Charlie Roy]

At least in the iPhone App you can search flights without having to fill in a captcha! I'm willing to pay 2.99 for that (y)

[airazurxtror]

Ryanair in August 2012 : 8,90 M Pax with a LF = 88% (against 8,14 M Pax and LF 89% in August 2011).
Last 12 months : 78,48 M Pax.

August 2012 was Ryanair's highest-ever monthly traffic figure and the second month this year that Ryanair has carried over 8m passengers. Ryanair is the only airline in Europe to carry over 7m passengers in one month.

[cnc]

in dutch

Onheilspellende berichten over veiligheid Ryanair

http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/1901/reisnieuws/article/detail/1502244/2012/09/17/Onheilspellende-berichten-over-veiligheid-Ryanair.dhtml

[epsilon]

I stopped reading after "Volgens de Spaanse krant El Mundo"
The Spanish started a witch hunt on Ryanair lately. Or the Spanish airspace became like a Bermuda triangle for FR suddenly.

[Inquirer]

According to l'eccho, Spain is pressing for a change in EU legislation to let the country where a plane is based oversee its operations, rather than the country of registration.
Up until now, it is the country of registration which is responsible for this, with any other country (like where it is based) merely having the right to check compliance with the rules during a stay on one of its airports. It may however not delay a flight or ground a plane in case it detects irregularities, but has to report back to the country of registration, which is supposed to take sections.
Spain argues Ireland can not effectively oversee all of Ryanair's operations from bases outside ireland, and the procedure as t is now is too bureaucratic and time consuming; it would rather like to see this oversight being transferred to the country where the plane is based to cut the red tape.

http://www.lecho.be/actualite/entrepris ... 3-3017.art

I don't know much about the detais, but is seems like a good idea indeed, as I can imagine it isnt easy for Ireland to be sending inspectors over to all the Ryanair bases in Europe. Better to hand this responsibility over to the local authorities, IMHO. Quicker, more efficient and also cheaper.