Ryanair in 2015

[sn26567]

Hey, guys, don't let the ambient heat work on your temper. Some fresh water to clean the topic!

And now back to topic, please.

[crew1990]

My message right above didn't had anything agressive, I was politely asking some explanation to Airazurxtror. My message has been modified and doesn't mean anything now.

Could you then completely delate it then? When a message is so much modified it can be interpreted out of the context, mainly when it was an answer to a post of someone else which has been deleted.

Also having a "modified by moderator" could be nice as well.

[sean1982]

On top of releasing 1 million seat at the price of 19,85EUR for their 30th birthday, Ryanair today offered all tea and lavazza coffee on board to their customers at a price of only 0,30cents instead of the usual 3 EUR as a birthday present

[airazurxtror]

Also having a "modified by moderator" could be nice as well.

It would also be nice to tell the author if his message has been deleted. No such courtesy on Luchtzak !

[sn26567]

Also having a "modified by moderator" could be nice as well.

It would also be nice to tell the author if his message has been deleted. No such courtesy on Luchtzak !

There is a topic called "Rules" that can be accessed by a link at the top of every page. I would like to remind two of these rules here:

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Thank you for your understanding

[convair]

It's a difficult and thankless role to be a moderator on a forum where some seem to think you are at their disposal.
Thanks for the excellent job you're doing André!

[airazurxtror]

Michael O'Leary, CEO of Ryanair, says the airline may operate their Greek flights for free for two weeks as talks continue on trying to secure a financial deal for the country.

Asked for his opinion of the Greek government he said the Greek people had "elected a bunch of lunatics" and that the "result of the Greek referendum is a tragedy".

He said that it is "easy for left wing columnists to say 'write off the debt'" but that "ultimately they (the Greek government) will have to bend the knee - and they should".

"More Greeks need to pay tax, we need to close the black market and less Greeks need to live off pensions"

"If you are of a working age, go out and work. You can't be retiring, sitting in a cafe drinking coffee and expecting the Germans and the Irish to pay for you."

[sean1982]

Quite a simplistic (populist) point of view

[airazurxtror]

Ryanair today (8 July) officially joined Facebook, offering its 100m customers the latest Ryanair route news and developments as they happen, great competitions and offers, and real-time customer service, as it continues to expand its social media presence.
To celebrate its new Facebook account and 30th birthday, Ryanair has launched a ‘30 Names 30 Planes’ competition, offering 30 fans the chance to have their name and face pictured on one of 30 Ryanair aircraft. Entry is through the Ryanair Facebook page, where fans can upload their photo and download a CGI video of their own Ryanair aircraft bearing their name and face, and the 30 lucky winners will be announced in September.

- See more at: http://corporate.ryanair.com/news/news/ ... 4CljP.dpuf

[sn26567]

On top of releasing 1 million seat at the price of 19,85EUR for their 30th birthday...

The first Ryanair flight, 30 years ago, was from Waterford to London Gatwick with a plane nicknamed "The Bandit".

Ironically, this route is now served exclusively by ... VLM !

[airazurxtror]

Ryanair called on Greek authorities to back its plan for free flights on some domestic routes for two weeks as the country struggles to stave off economic collapse.

Ryanair plans to waive charges for Greeks on routes connecting Athens to Chania, Rhodes and Thessaloniki, starting from July 13. The offer is dependent on aviation authorities and Athens airport also agreeing to scrap fees, the carrier said on Thursday.

[airazurxtror]

The Board of Ryanair Holdings PLC today (10 July) confirmed that it has voted unanimously to accept the IAG offer for Ryanair’s 29.8% shareholding in Aer Lingus Group plc. Ryanair’s stake in Aer Lingus has been available for sale since May 2012 (see attached) and the Board believes that the current IAG offer maximises Ryanair shareholder value.

- See more at: https://www.aviation24.be/airlines_press_r ... gus-stake/

[Inquirer]

Indeed, ryanair has understood it has no other realistic option but to offload it's minority shareholding in Aer Lingus, other than risk being stuck with it long term, or worse even, be forced to sell it by the UK market regulator for even less than what IAG is only offering now, in a couple of years.

While nominatively, they pretend to still make a small profit on the deal, things look very sobering when taking into account time appreciation of course.

Theoretically, the idea to buy into Aer Lingus was somehow understandable as it would have given them a tier A brand allowing them to operate flights from premium airports without ruining their core business case like they now have to do in persuit of this very lucrative market segment (maybe the only one once subsidies are finally ousted in the EU?), but it was doomed to fail from the onset due to market regulartory problems hanging over it.
Incredible they didn't realise such at the time and even more eyepopping they lost all those years trying to get them onboard nevertheless, only to be forced to abandon a dead-upon-arrival strategy by several regulators and lost rulings.
Meanwhile time passed by and the aviation market quickly evolved, yet they found themselves out of any alternatives but a product-recking-strategy to fend off several direct competitors bypassing them!
It would be interesting to try to understand the psychology behind such stubbornness, as it costed them dearly and is ideally to be avoided in future.
My bet is things got a little bit too personal, and O'leary absolutely wanted Aer Lingus because they were Irish, just like him. Had it been any other airline, he'd seen the light much sooner as he's normally not so blind, but here he definitely wasn't at his best, to say the least.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... ngus-stake

[Stij]

It takes to courage to start something...
It takes even more courage to stop it...

Cheers,

Stij

[airazurxtror]

There has always been much antagonism between Ryanair and Aer Lingus. The more so because Tony Ryan, one the founders, had been an employee of Aer Lingus, and was still the boss of GPA, where Aer Lingus was an important shareholder.
At the beginning, Aer Lingus did all its possible to sink Ryanair - that was before the deregulation - the Irish Air Ministry was then known as the downtown Aer Lingus office, and it took a courageous minister to allow Ryanair to survive. It was David against Goliath !
The full story of the struggle is like a real thriller. At least three books relate it, those written by Siobhan Creaton, Alan Ruddock and Richard Aldous (If you know of another one, I would be happy to be told).

[airazurxtror]

Never one to let a bandwagon trundle past un-jumped on, Ryanair has slashed prices by 30 per cent for routes to and from Greece, as part of a campaign to "Keep Greece Flying".

The airline said prices on its Athens routes to and from Chania, Rhodes and Thessaloniki will drop to €4.99 (£3.60) until the end of October, while all international routes will be cut by a third.

"Ryanair had offered to drop its Greek domestic fares to €0 for the next two weeks if the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority and Athens airport dropped their development fees and airport fees to zero for this period, but the Greek government have declined this offer," it lamented.

http://www.cityam.com/219936/keep-greec ... -flights-5

[sn26567]

Swedish unions to join Danish in striking against Ryanair

Swedish trade unions Seko and ST have announced they will undertake their own industrial action against Ryanair in support of their counterparts at the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions (Landsorganisationen i Danmark - LO). Following a collapse in their latest round of talks with the Irish carrier, the LO said it would undertake strikes against Ryanair at its Copenhagen Kastrup base on July 18 followed by Billund and Aarhus on July 23.

Sweden's Local newspaper says Seko and ST will boycott luggage-handling and refueling services to Ryanair flights being redirected to Swedish airports as a result of the strikes in Denmark.

Ryanair CEO has warned in recent weeks that any industrial action against his airline would also result in the closure of its Billund base, home to two Ryanair B737-800s. The LCC has already signalled the closure of its Copenhagen base with effect from July 14.

“Then we would have to close Billund, even if we don’t want to. Copenhagen is more important to us than Billund, even if we love Billund dearly. I’ve been to Legoland myself,” he was quoted by the Financial Times.

Ryanair is appealing a Danish Labour Court (Arbejdsretten) ruling which allows the LO to take industrial action against it. The LO's objection to the carrier stems from its unwillingness to negotiate a Collective Labour Agreement, governed by Danish law, with the Danish Services Union which, through the Danish Flight Personnel Union (FPU), organises pilots and cabin crew.

Source: ch-aviation http://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news/ ... st-ryanair

[airazurxtror]

Ryanair confirmed Friday it will move its single-based Boeing 737-800 from Copenhagen to Kaunas in Lithuania on July 14 as attempts to defuse the row with its Danish unions failed.

Other unions had threatened sympathy action against the carrier from July 18 if Ryanair continued to refuse to negotiate on the representation issue.

Closing down the base, while continuing to serve Copenhagen from points outside the country, means the sympathy action cannot go ahead legally.

Ryanair’s director of personnel Eddie Wilson said the unions had previously destroyed Danish airlines Sterling and Maersk through their inflexibility and inability to adapt to the conditions of modern air travel “where customers want low fares and efficiency, not high costs, unionized inflexibility and inefficiencies. Here you have Danish unions who admit they don’t have any members in Ryanair, destroying highly paid jobs for Danish pilots and cabin crew here in Copenhagen with the sole effect that those jobs now get exported overseas, yet the flights to/from Copenhagen, the low fares and the competition with SAS will continue.”

[airazurxtror]

Ryanair has confirmed its intention to launch flights to Skopje.
Ryanair’s Head of Communications, Robyn Kiely, told EX-YU Aviation News, “We are currently speaking to the Macedonian government about potential Skopje routes”.
The government is willing to offer subsidies and incentives to the low cost carrier, similar to the ones provided to Wizz Air, which saw it open a base in Skopje and launch services to Ohrid as well.
Ryanair is believed to be negotiating not just one but a range of services from the Macedonian capital.

Within the former Yugoslavia, Ryanair operates year-round services only to Podgorica, while all of its routes to Croatia, including its base in Zadar, are run during the summer only.
Last month the carrier announced it would upgrade its seasonal service from Charleroi Airport to the Montenegrin capital to year-round operations, complementing its existing summer and winter flights from London Stansted Airport.

[airazurxtror]

Ryanair has carried out its threat to move its single based aircraft away from Copenhagen Airport. With effect from today (July 14, 2015) the single Boeing 737-800 has been transferred to Kaunas where the aircraft will continue to fly to/from Copenhagen from the Lithuanian city.

Ryanair said it remains fully committed to serving Copenhagen, but will continue to do so via aircraft stationed at other European bases. It currently offers links to the Danish capital from Bergamo, Dublin, Kaunus, London Luton and Warsaw Modlin, while flights from Alicante, Brussels Charleroi, Budapest, Cologne/Bonn, Edinburgh, Madrid, Malaga, Rome and Stockholm Skavsta are due to commence this winter.