Ryanair expand at Charleroi?

RadarContact · Post by **RadarContact** » 14 Dec 2005, 12:47

In Le Soir today:
Ryanair will base a fourth aircraft at Charleroi. This should be good for three to four new destinations, according to an anonymous person in the article.

Anybody who knows which ones? Maybe they'll reopen their lines with London and Liverpool?

loutri666 · Post by **loutri666** » 14 Dec 2005, 13:01

That would be nice to reopen the London flight, lots of people would be interested in (like me

). Cross the fingers.

Seb

cityflyer · Post by **cityflyer** » 14 Dec 2005, 13:08

I tried a simulation on the Ryanair site: from Brussels to ----

5 new destinations were shown:

Faro
Malaga
Nimes
Salzburg
Valencia

Cityflyer

dna · Post by **dna** » 14 Dec 2005, 13:19

5 new destinations were shown:

Faro
Malaga
Nimes
Salzburg
Valencia

This was also just reported on VTM news.

Acid-drop · Post by **Acid-drop** » 14 Dec 2005, 14:22

It's official on ryanair website. In many languages.

Very good news

I hope they will have the new terminal very soon. The current is way too small for that

muggins · Post by **muggins** » 14 Dec 2005, 14:29

pressman wrote:The day they expand there , monkeys will fly outta my ass

Ouch! That statement may have been a little hasty...

I'm a little suprised that Ryanair have chosen (for the time being at least) not to look east from CRL. I would have thought that routes to the likes of Tampere TMP, Riga RIX and Wroclaw WRO would all be highly successful.

Nevertheless, given the history of Ryanair at CRL, this announcement of a 4th aircraft is highly significant.

Post by **luchtzak** » 14 Dec 2005, 14:37

Just in my mailbox: the Ryanair press-release: https://www.aviation24.be/article10734.html

an-148 · Post by **an-148** » 14 Dec 2005, 15:23

Someone could ask why EZ is waiting to install a base in Belgium!

sab319 · Post by **sab319** » 14 Dec 2005, 15:56

well as far as I know U2 didn't come to belgium because Richard Brandson and Stelios had some kind of gentlemans agreement that TV and U2 wouldn't compete...

Good to see FR expanding after all the bad publicity they got lately

Air2D2 · Post by **Air2D2** » 14 Dec 2005, 16:39

Acid-drop wrote:Very good news

Especially for Belgian aviation and for people who depend on it for their daily bread.
Try to find out what SN, VEX, TC en TUB think about it...

an-148 · Post by **an-148** » 14 Dec 2005, 17:39

@Air2D2
Already one partially reply to your question (from TCB):
Great inquiry about "ticket only" preferencies:
http://www.thomascookairlines.com/thomascookairlines/

RadarContact · Post by **RadarContact** » 14 Dec 2005, 19:55

On the VRT news they said that for the moment Ryanair doesn't intend to resume operations from Ostend. Maybe later?...

Humberside · Post by **Humberside** » 14 Dec 2005, 22:15

Im surprised at Malaga and Faro. These destinations are only served from Ireland at the moment since they are busier/more expensive destinations and FR can charge higher prices (due to little competition) to cover costs. So have Faro and Malaga given a good deal to FR for a service to a non-Irish airport. Could more routes follow?

As for the future, the following all seem possibilities for FR

Murcia
Reus
Oslo Torp
Gothenburg Save
Cork
Liverpool
Nottingham East Midlands
Tampere
Riga
Gdansk
Wroclaw
Lodz
Bratislava
Alghero
Marseille
Bergerac
Limoges
Nantes