Ryanair in 2015

[RoMax]

In 11 years I have only once seen a crew member reporting unfit for duty ... And I offloaded her and called in a standby crew member. And any captain will do exactly the same. So again, your internet knowledge and especially what the media is feeding you is severely coloured into your propaganda. Cause everyone loves a bad guy.

Don't you think that's a bit weird, 11 years and just once that a crew member reported unfit for duty? You make the argument of the pilot unions (that people don't want to report unfit for duty unless they really have no other option, as they will lose that income) actually even stronger by saying this.

[sean1982]

Euhm, no, it means that I have seen only fit crew members so far. Because they were or because the original crew member rostered called sick and was replaced by a standby crew member

[RoMax]

Euhm, no, it means that I have seen only fit crew members so far. Because they were or because the original crew member rostered called sick and was replaced by a standby crew member

Calling in sick is the same as calling unfit to fly. You lose your income for that day. That's the point.

[crew1990]

In Ryanair, the term (calling unfit) like we use in Belgium doesn't exist, as Sean said if a crew member feel unfit to fly, he call sick and that's it, while in Brussels Airlines there is "calling sick" and "calling unfit" the difference between both is that if you call sick you will need a certificate from a doctor while if u call unfit to fly you will need to write a report explaining why you are unfit.

[sean1982]

Euhm, no, it means that I have seen only fit crew members so far. Because they were or because the original crew member rostered called sick and was replaced by a standby crew member

Calling in sick is the same as calling unfit to fly. You lose your income for that day. That's the point.

Yes, the point is ... People do it, regardless whether they loose their flight pay for the day or not .. So it's not an issue

[RoMax]

Euhm, no, it means that I have seen only fit crew members so far. Because they were or because the original crew member rostered called sick and was replaced by a standby crew member

Calling in sick is the same as calling unfit to fly. You lose your income for that day. That's the point.

Yes, the point is ... People do it, regardless whether they loose their flight pay for the day or not .. So it's not an issue

Actually that's a big "if". Obviously if you are really sick you will not turn up to fly (potentially making it worse and getting you stuck at an 'outstation'), but from what is known, crew is less likely to report sick/unfit to fly if their salary is at risk compared to crew that's covered by this under their contracts. Same with reporting possibly worse problems, which in some cases are covered/insured under airline contracts contrary to pilots working on an independent base as a contractor.

I'm not saying this is a 'problem' which is going to kill hundreds of people because pilots are flying sick and depressed just because of their contract, but it is a factor which has to be considered.

[sdbelgium]

In the meantime, both YL-LCM and YL-LCN (Smartlynx Airbus A320) have started operations for Ryanair based in Madrid (all white, no titles).

[Airbus330lover]

Looking to the planning CRL-FNI for the end of the year...... no more flights for the winter season ?
Connexion stopped ?

[MrG4]

Presses in Bologna,Verona,Treviso(Venice),Turin,Rome,Bucharest

[sn26567]

Dublin Airport travel chaos after two Ryanair planes clipped wings near runway

Flights leaving Dublin Airport have been delayed after what is being described as an "incident" on a taxiway at the airport. Two Ryanair planes clipped each other in the incident.

Arrivals at the airport are operating normally, but outbound flights are suffering delays.

No-one was injured in the incident and emergency services are at the scene.

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-ne ... ve-5437933

Ryanair release statement: Planes were travelling to Edinburgh and Zadar

"Two of our aircraft were taxiing slowly to the runway at Dublin Airport this morning. The winglet of one aircraft appears to have scraped the tail fin of the other.

"Both aircraft were under the instruction of Dublin Airport Air Traffic Control at the time.

"Customers have been bussed back to the terminal and will board replacement aircraft to continue their journeys to Edinburgh and Zadar.

"Ryanair apologises sincerely to customers for any inconvenience caused."

The two flights that clipped on the taxiway at Dublin Airport this morning were the Ryanair services to Edinburgh - FR812 and Zadar - FR7312.

[sn26567]

Report in Aviation Safety Network

http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=175001

[sn26567]

In the meantime, both YL-LCM and YL-LCN (Smartlynx Airbus A320) have started operations for Ryanair based in Madrid (all white, no titles).

Ryanair to lease in two Latvian A320s this summer

Ryanair is to wet-lease two A320-200s from Latvian operator SmartLynx Airlines for use during the current summer season, Skyliner Aviation has reported. Currently in an all-white livery, YL-LCM (cn 244) and YL-LCN (cn 662) are based out of Madrid Barajas, it said.

As reported in February, the Irish LCC also wet-leases in four B737s from Slovak ACMI specialist Air Explore this summer including two B737-800s - OM-FEX (msn 28213) and OM-HEX (msn 30785) - configured with 189 all-economy class seats, and two B737-400s - OM-CEX (msn 25839) and OM-EEX (msn 26302) - configured with 168 all-economy class seats.

Source: ch-aviation

[airazurxtror]

Only two (new) B737 delivered in March 2015 :
- on the 13th : EI-FIE
- on the 28th : EI-FIF

http://www.jethros.org.uk/fleets/fleet_ ... ervice.htm

[Passenger]

Ryanair release statement: Planes were travelling to Edinburgh and Zadar

"Two of our aircraft were taxiing slowly to the runway at Dublin Airport this morning. The winglet of one aircraft appears to have scraped the tail fin of the other.

"Both aircraft were under the instruction of Dublin Airport Air Traffic Control at the time.

"Customers have been bussed back to the terminal and will board replacement aircraft to continue their journeys to Edinburgh and Zadar.

"Ryanair apologises sincerely to customers for any inconvenience caused."

Strange: a press release with just five phrases, one of them ""...both aircraft were under the instruction of Dublin Airport Traffic Control..." I wonder what the relevance of that phrase is. Perhaps "nor Ryanair nor the crew nor the ground handler can be blamed"?

[flightlover]

A captain is always the one taking the last decision. If he thinks it is unsafe to follow instructions it is his responsibility to overrule them.
So if ATC is instructing them to move forward and the captain thinks there is to little room to do so, he has to overrule that order.

The only moment he is not in control off the moving a/c is when a pushback tractor is connected.

[sean1982]

A captain is always the one taking the last decision. If he thinks it is unsafe to follow instructions it is his responsibility to overrule them.
So if ATC is instructing them to move forward and the captain thinks there is to little room to do so, he has to overrule that order.

The only moment he is not in control off the moving a/c is when a pushback tractor is connected.

Obviously he/she didnt feel that it was unsafe to do so as no aircrew is going to knowingly plant his/her winglet in the tail of another aircraft. As this is the second incident in 6 months time I think that that holding point needs to be looked at closer. Maybe it gives the impression of more clearance than what is actually there

[airazurxtror]

Ryanair today (1 April) launched its Bucharest winter 2015 schedule with 3 new routes to Bologna Borgo panigale, Milan Bergamo and Rome Ciampino (7 routes in total, with London Stansted, Dublin Collinstown, Madrid Barajas and Brussels Charleroi).
See more at: http://corporate.ryanair.com/news/news/ ... QsRGM.dpuf

[airazurxtror]

Ryanair is adding four new routes from Dublin and boosting frequencies on other services in its 2015 summer schedule, which it launched on Thursday.

The airline has added Brussels Zaventem, Cologne, Copenhagen and Glasgow (GLA) to its summer services this year. It will serve 82 destinations in all from Dublin over the next six months. It expects to fly 9.7 million passengers to and from the Irish capital this year.

Spokesman Robin Kiely said that along with the new routes it has added flights on 13 other services.

To Brussels : 3 flights on monday, thursday, friday; 2 flights on tuesday, wednesday, sunday; 1 flight on saturday.

[airazurxtror]

For the first time, Ryanair overtook Alitalia by passenger numbers for Italian and international connections in 2014, with over 26 million against 23 million for Alitalia. However, the latter kept its lead in domestic traffic with 12.8 million passengers, according to the figures released on Thursday by the Italian Civil Aviation Authority (ENAC) for traffic in Italy in 2014.

The (domestic + international) rankings:
1. Ryanair Ireland 26,119,246
2. Alitalia CAI Italian 23,375,954

National traffic:
1. Alitalia CAI Italian 12,830,045
2. Ryanair Ireland 8,928,659

International traffic:
1. Ryanair Ireland 17,190,589
2. Alitalia CAI Italian 10,545,909

http://www.agi.it/en/business/news/ryan ... co-inw0005

[airazurxtror]

EI-FIG just arrived at Dublin, from Boeing Field, today.