Ryanair in 2015

[sean1982]

that's why JAF is pulling out of Beauvais.

Jetairfly should have done like Ryanair does: sell Beauvais as "Paris North" or "close to the Eiffel Tower".

Btw, jet4you doesnt exist anymore since 3 years or so ... Did Google not tell you that?

Thanks but no thanks, don't need Google for that. Actually, I was already working at an airport when you were still wearing diapers. Anyway - seems you're still mad on jet4you because they've hurt you at Charleroi. Jetair will be glad to hear this, as they lost quite some money with them.

Fact remains that regional airports nowadays wellcome all airlines, mainly because the European Union forbits secret deals "Ryanair style".

Hurt us at CRL? omg your Google is letting you down today

[Passenger]

http://www.nu.nl/beurs/3903717/ryanair- ... -2015.html
Kenny Jacobs :Ryanair will open a base next year at Schiphol.This year we have not applied for landing times at Schiphol, purely because we did not have the machines to exploit them." "We have a lot to win, '' Jacobs said. '' Across Europe, we are the largest with 14 percent market share, but in the Netherlands we have only 4 percent.

There we go again. Actually, I've predicted the above excuse not to start out of Amsterdam a few hours before the withdrawal was posted: I said"...But then, the magic Ryanair box opens, and the reason becomes “lack of aircraft...” If they really want, Ryanair can open a base at Amsterdam. Aircraft are available - proof is given by airazurxtor who announces new Ryanair routes on a daily basis.

Ryanair will not open a base in Amsterdam because they have bad experience in Brussels. Ryanair is afraid that KLM will react the same way that Brussels Airlines and Jetairfly have done at Brussels: by lowering their rates in such a way that people prefer an established carrier above a low cost low budget high surcharges. And KLM has more power then Brussels Airlines and/or Jetairfly: KLM can use Transavia to kick Ryanair out of Amsterdam within a matter of weeks.

[Stij]

Gents, please cool down a bit...

Cheers,

A moderator with a heavy week who had to cancel a trip to Vancouver and is on a bad mood...

[sean1982]

http://www.nu.nl/beurs/3903717/ryanair- ... -2015.html
Kenny Jacobs :Ryanair will open a base next year at Schiphol.This year we have not applied for landing times at Schiphol, purely because we did not have the machines to exploit them." "We have a lot to win, '' Jacobs said. '' Across Europe, we are the largest with 14 percent market share, but in the Netherlands we have only 4 percent.

There we go again. Actually, I've predicted the above excuse not to start out of Amsterdam a few hours before the withdrawal was posted: I said"...But then, the magic Ryanair box opens, and the reason becomes “lack of aircraft...” If they really want, Ryanair can open a base at Amsterdam. Aircraft are available - proof is given by airazurxtor who announces new Ryanair routes on a daily basis.

Ryanair will not open a base in Amsterdam because they have bad experience in Brussels. Ryanair is afraid that KLM will react the same way that Brussels Airlines and Jetairfly have done at Brussels: by lowering their rates in such a way that people prefer an established carrier above a low cost low budget high surcharges. And KLM has more power then Brussels Airlines and/or Jetairfly: KLM can use Transavia to kick Ryanair out of Amsterdam within a matter of weeks.

God ... You really do live in a dreamworld dont you? The belgian airlines reacted exactly as predicted. By cutting into their own flesh as the figures of the yields that SN has on the routes with direct competition with the loco's show. The only thing that FR (or others) have to do is to cherrypick their most profitabel routes. And neither BRU nor AMS would be FR's bread and butter while that is the case for SN and KLM. Last time I checked KLM was also losing a couple of million euro per year. The difference between KLM and SN is that KLM has an impressive long haul net work and that automatically generates additional short haul passengers that feed into the long haul.

(Btw, we are leasing in about 30 aircraft this summer I think, so we are really short of aircraft )

[airazurxtror]

Aircraft are available - proof is given by airazurxtor who announces new Ryanair routes on a daily basis.

I only rarely announce new routes, most certainly not on a daily basis.

[Stij]

Final warning...

[airazurxtror]

Ryanair announced a series of initiatives which will be rolled out over 2015 with a range of improved services, fee reductions and digital developments to be introduced over the coming year.
- See more at: https://www.aviation24.be/airlines_press_r ... tter-plan/

Ryanair announced today that it is continuing its charm offensive launched a year ago following the appointment of marketing boss Kenny Jacobs by reducing some of its most draconian fees.
Its unpopular airport check-in fee, which Jacobs insisted was paid by only 0.5% of customers, will drop from €70 to €45, and its missed departure charge will be reduced from €110 to €99.
The airline will also allow customers to cancel a flight within 24 hours of booking in future, but they will have to pay a fee of €15.
A new €5 Hold the Fare charge will also be introduced for customers who would like to reserve a seat for 24 hours before committing to the purchase.

Jacobs said the changes were part of the Always Getting Better initiative he launched last year to try to woo more customers.
He said the airline had spent the past 18 months working its way through a 'bucket list of things that pissed people off' to further improve its customer service.

Further steps being introduced by the airline this year include more transparency on fares, new insurance products (and amending its website so this isn't automatically selected for customers), new apps for ios and Android users, improved inflight menus, new (less yellow) aircraft interiors and slimmer seats on new aircraft which will give passengers more space - and also increase capacity.

Since launching the Always Getting Better initiative last year, the airline is anticipating its passenger numbers will rise to over 100 million this year. Controversial boss Michael O'Leary said today: "If I had known that being nicer to customers would have been so profitable, I would have been nicer many years before Kenny came on board."

http://www.travelmole.com/news_feature. ... g&region=2

[airazurxtror]

Speaking at the launch of Ryanair’s new customer charter, chief marketing officer Kenny Rogers admitted that the airline had been playing “catch-up” with its digital offering, but said he hoped the new strategy will help Ryanair now lead the sector.

“In the past year we did catch up with a lot of the things our competitors have done in terms of service, in terms of innovation and in terms of digital innovation. This year you will see us make some big investments in digital, big investments in data and that will start [to help us become a] digital innovator in the category.
“[Ryanair] is essentially going to be a travel retailer that specialises in flights. It’s an ambitious statement but that’s the ambition that we have when it comes to innovation in the category.”

So far 4 million customers have signed up to the My Ryanair app, which Roger’s said will act as a “key pillar” strategic pillar to boost its popularity. By October a new community feature will be introduced to allow travellers to log who with, and why, they are travelling to allow Ryanair to make better use of consumer data.

A TripAdvisor-style review platform will be introduced to the site that features customer reviews of destinations, which will then be shared via social media. Investments into producing more in-depth destination content will run concurrently to strengthen Ryanair’s ambition of becoming a “travel retailer”.

On the data side, Roger’s said that it will be used to increase customer conversions and better target content and improve customer retention.

http://www.thedrum.com/news/2015/03/03/ ... nalisation

[airazurxtror]

http://www.rte.ie/news/business/2015/03 ... air-stats/

Ryanair has reported a 29% rise in passenger numbers for February as it announced the purchase of three more Boeing 737-800 planes.
Ryanair said today it carried a total of 5.8 million passengers last month, up from 4.5 million the same time last year.
The airline also said its load factor - how many seats it fills on each flight - rose 11% to 89% in February.
Meanwhile, Ryanair said the new planes, which are valued at $280m at current list prices, will be delivered early next year.
This brings the airline's total order to 183 737 plans as well as further orders for 200 Boeing Max 200 aircraft.
The airline's chief executive Michael O'Leary said that these plane orders will alllow Ryanair to expand its fleet to over 520 planes and to increase its passenger numbers to 160 million by 2024.

http://corporate.ryanair.com/news/news/ ... ?market=ie

http://corporate.ryanair.com/news/news/ ... ?market=ie

[sn26567]

Ryanair said the new planes, which are valued at $280m at current list prices, will be delivered early next year.

It is clear that the three new Boeing 737-800 NG aircraft (see https://www.aviation24.be/airlines_press_r ... -737-800s/) have been purchased with at least a 50% discount.

1. Ryanair is used to bargain to the last penny
2. Boeing is happy to be able to fill some spots for the doomed 737 NG before starting production of the 737 MAX
3. Win-win situation for buyer and seller!

[airazurxtror]

http://www.independent.ie/life/travel/t ... 39948.html

The first phase of its interior refresh will include more destination images, more blue and “less yellow” tones, according to the airline's Chief Marketing Officer, Kenny Jacobs.

The colour changes will roll out from this month, starting with a "toning down" of Ryanair's notorious yellow, with a 'Low Fares Made Simple' tagline featuring along the overhead bins.

"We're going to see more use of blue, more messaging, and bulkheads will show pictures of beaches, of skies, of couples skiing... rather than the yellow we've used up to now," Jacobs said.

The redesigns have been undertaken in-house, without consulting an agency - "because we are a low-cost airline," he added.

New "slimline" seats will be introduced along with new aircraft from October, Jacobs added, providing more space "between the customers themselves and the seats in front of them."

"It will also give us more seats on the aircraft," he explained.

[MrG4]

Berlino SXF will be a new Fr base from w15 as you can see:
FR4732 dep. SXF 06:30, arr. BGY 08:15
FR4731 dep. BGY 08:40, arr. SXF 10:25

FR4734 dep. SXF 19:55, arr. BGY 21:40
FR4733 dep. BGY 22:05, arr. SXF 23:50

So now should start new german internal routes as Jakobs said.
Next step : Berlino-Koln/Stuttgart and some new German bases ? (Hamburg,Hannover, or Munich?)

[Boeing767copilot]

And Brussels 3 x daily

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines_press_r ... lin-route/

[sdbelgium]

http://corporate.ryanair.com/news/news/ ... ?market=ie

From winter 2015, Ryanair will grow in Berlin as follows:

New base from 27th October
5 based aircraft: $500m investment
16 new routes: Alicante, Athens, Barcelona, Bari, Bologna, Bratislava, Brussels, Glasgow, Madrid, Malaga, Palermo, Palma, Riga, Rome C, Venice & Valencia
22 routes in total
191 weekly flights

[Stij]

If that's to Brussels (BRU), this is head on with U2!

Cheers,

Stij

[Inquirer]

According to De Tijd is it, yes!

http://www.tijd.be/detail.art?a=9607832 ... cent&ckc=1

Remark from moderator: and also according to Luchtzak
https://www.aviation24.be/airlines_press_r ... lin-route/

Good to see they chose for premium airports once again, after sending their Copenhagen flights to CRL, although SXF is a bit of the same problem of course, but then on the other end of the line.
I really don't get the way in which they chose their airports, sometimes.
Why not Tegel, like jetair does from Antwerp: so much more convenient???



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[airazurxtror]

Why not Tegel, like jetair does from Antwerp: so much more convenient???

Ryanair is already present at Schönefeld; why move to Tegel and then move again to Brandenburg when it opens, in a few years ?

[MrG4]

If that's to Brussels (BRU), this is head on with U2!

Cheers,

Stij

Exactly, But not only in Bru as you can see



ATH - U2 5xw vs FR 1xd
BCN - U2 3xd vs FR 1xd
BRU - U2 2xd vs FR 3xd
GLA - U2 3/4xw vs FR 4xw
MAD - U2 2xd vs FR 2xd

[airazurxtror]

Brussels Zaventem 08.20 - 12.55 - 21.20 to Berlin Schönefeld 1h25 later
Berlin Schönefeld 06.30 - 11.05 - 19.30 to Brussels Zaventem 1h25 later.

http://www.anna.aero/2015/03/05/ryanair ... for-w1516/
On the new multiple-daily flights to Brussels, Madrid and Rome, Ryanair will face the following competition:
•Brussels: Brussels Airlines (32 weekly flights between Berlin TXL and Brussels BRU), easyJet (13 weekly flights between Berlin SXF and Brussels BRU);
•Madrid: Iberia (14 weekly flights between Berlin TXL and Madrid), airberlin (seven weekly flights between Berlin TXL and MAD), easyJet (six weekly flights between Berlin SXF and Madrid);
•Rome: easyJet (14 weekly flights between Berlin SXF and Rome FCO), airberlin (13 weekly flights between Berlin TXL and Rome FCO), Alitalia (seven weekly flights between Berlin TXL and Rome FCO), Vueling (six weekly flights between Berlin TXL and Rome FCO) and germanwings (six weekly flights between Berlin TXL and Rome FCO).

Some competition ! May the best win ! (the customer being sure to win).

[crew1990]

Some of my ex MAD colleagues are having an airbus course? What is going on there? It seems to be with SmartLynx