2008-2009 Charleroi Airport (CRL) latest news

[Desert Rat]

New Ryanair route to be announced very soon:

Charleroi - Rygge, Moss

For those of you who think that Rygge is a southern holiday spot with palm trees and bikini girls: forget it. Rygge is in Norway.

No news yet about frequencies or start date.

Looks like a nice place to visit...

[Charlie Roy]

Charleroi to Oslo-Rygge
Starts October 2nd, Monday Wednesday Friday Sunday.

Increases to daily from November.

[Desert Rat]

Great

[Airbus330lover]

Not likely, he has problems with the justice too ...
and don't agree with the politics ...
Don't know if he's the reason of the success, MOL sure is ...

"Police Judiciaire" came yesterday at the airport for investigation.
Likely everything OK for BUELENS and.... NOT OK for DE GROEVE (but everyone knows it!)

[Charlie Roy]

Ryanair route map showing 3 new routes from Charleroi:
http://www.ryanair.com/site/IE/dests.php

• Tenerife Sur
  Gran Canaria
  Lanzarote

No announcement has been made yet, but in total the route map shows:

• 18 new routes from Gran Canaria [not a current Ryanair destination]
  17 new new routes from Lanzarote [not a current Ryanair destination]
  9 new routes from Tenerife [currently 9 Ryanair routes]

44 new routes to/from the Canaria Islands would amount to a huge expansion, so maybe it's just an IT guy at Ryanair playing with the Route map. Wait and see I suppose...

[-SCQ-]

No idea about LPA and ACE, but TFS-CRL should start 26/10, 3x weekly (tuesday, thursday, saturday)

[brusselsairlinesfan]

I have some little doubt about potential demand for the CRL-Norway flight but... who knows?!

[fcw]

Big Ryanair press conference tomorrow in Tenerife with MOLE himself.

[Desert Rat]

I have some little doubt about potential demand for the CRL-Norway flight but... who knows?!

May be they will have some southward connections for the tourist coming from Norway...

[danieln]

Ryanair to Tenerife, Las Palmas and Lanzarote. More news later today.

[nightflyer1980]

Now its official: From CRL to LPA, TFS and ACE starting end of october 2009.
Great news

Interesting fact by the way: Ryanair gets a 100% discount for the airport charges at LPA, TFS and ACE!

Official press release:
http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/news.php ... -en-290709

[stefanel]

Great !!! Always wanted to go there.
However, Teneriffe is not displayed on the prices list, it is however in the booking tool.

And Stockhom is back...

[danieln]

Stockholm is indeed back, this time with 2 daily flights. The flights will be operated with a Skavsta based aircraft, so daytrip returns from CRL to NYO will be tricky.

[Acid-drop]

many good news !
and again a crazy double figure growth planned for CRL

[brusselsairlinesfan]

Stockholm... hmmm this means competition vs brussels airlines & SAS...

[Desert Rat]

....+40%... ....

http://www.dhnet.be/infos/economie/arti ... illet.html

[Atlantis]

Now its official: From CRL to LPA, TFS and ACE starting end of october 2009.
Great news

Interesting fact by the way: Ryanair gets a 100% discount for the airport charges at LPA, TFS and ACE!

Official press release:
http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/news.php ... -en-290709

hmmm very hard competition between Ryanair and Jetairfly on the same airport CRL. Someone will suffer.
I'm curious what the reaction will be of Jetairfly on the 100% discount for the airport charges Ryanair get.

[Desert Rat]

competition is good for the customer...and good for the airport...

[Atlantis]

competition is good for the customer...and good for the airport...

I'm not taling about the customer or the airport but about the airline itselfs.

[fcw]

Now its official: From CRL to LPA, TFS and ACE starting end of october 2009.
Great news

Interesting fact by the way: Ryanair gets a 100% discount for the airport charges at LPA, TFS and ACE!

Official press release:
http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/news.php ... -en-290709

hmmm very hard competition between Ryanair and Jetairfly on the same airport CRL. Someone will suffer.
I'm curious what the reaction will be of Jetairfly on the 100% discount for the airport charges Ryanair get.

I'm not taling about the customer or the airport but about the airline itselfs.

FR is the biggest intra-european airline, they have more power to negiotiate, simple as that.