Ryanair in 2015

[sean1982]

The Dutch slot coordinator has announced that Ryanair received 9 slots at AMS Amsterdam.

We are talking here about 9 slots per day, not per week! And Ryanair will fill those slots only if it has the necessary aircraft and after the profitability at AMS has been evaluated in comparison with other platforms where the aircraft could be introduced.

Yep. The same excuse as always: "if we have the necessary aircraft". As if they don't know when Boeing will deliver. Same for "evaluation of profitability at AMS": EasyJet has already done that for them (EasyJet has added a 5th aircraft in AMS).

The reason why Ryanair isn't in a hurry for AMS is because Brussels Airlines has shown how legacy carriers can compete against Ryanair: with competitive rates.

Sure, crew rate in BRU has doubled btw, I wonder why :p

FR just doesnt invest in routes when it anticipates a 48% drop in yield

Edited by moderator, in this topic it's zero tolerance...

[sean1982]

Right, I wonder why exactly in this topic?

[Stij]

I'm sure you know!

[LJ]

The reason why Ryanair isn't in a hurry for AMS is because Brussels Airlines has shown how legacy carriers can compete against Ryanair: with competitive rates.

The reason why Ryanair has some problems with AMS is that they want to be at H-pier and lower fees. Access to H-pier is probably an issue as remaining capacity is limited.

According to the Telegraaf, Schiphol had hoped to attract Ryanair to Lelystad airport, where there are major expansion plans. Ryanair currently flies from Eindhoven, Maastricht and Groningen.

Ryanair has stated they wanted to fly to both AMS and Lelystad. They foresee a scenario where they would fly business destinations from AMS and more leisure based routes from Lelystad. However, that's old news as well.

[airazurxtror]

Ryanair has acquired a single Boeing 737-700 (EI-SEV) and although this will be used mainly for crew training purposes, it will also be flown on scheduled services and act as a standby aircraft to cover for operational and technical delays.

The 16-year-old former LAN Colombia aircraft was initially flown to Glasgow Prestwick in Scotland at the start of May where a maintenance C-check was completed on the jet. It was ferried to Maastricht in the Netherlands earlier this month for painting and returned to East Midlands Airport, where it will be mainly positioned, on June 30, 2015.

But, sources have confirmed to Routesonline that there could be more to this deal than simply to support its training activities.

The aircraft has been fitted with a full interior of 148 seats and it has been reported that Boeing may be paying part of the acquisition cost as Ryanair evaluates the type. Neither Boeing nor Ryanair have confirmed this.

It is unclear how the smaller 737-700 or its successor, the 737 MAX-7, will fit into the longer-term plans of Ryanair. However, with the aircraft’s additional range versus the larger 737-800, it could be part of a strategy to access new markets, even on transatlantic missions.

http://www.routesonline.com/news/29/bre ... e-737-700/

Transatlantic on a -700 from Charleroi : that would be something !

[airazurxtror]

Looking at this first half year, Ryanair has only had 14 new aircraft delivered (none in january, 4 in February, 3 in March,1 in April, 2 in May and 4 in June).
That is ridiculous !
How can Ryanair develop as it should (and could) with such a low rate of deliveries ?

[airazurxtror]

Ryanair today (1 July) launched an EU wide online petition to prevent Europe’s consumers having their travel plans disrupted or holidays cancelled by tiny groups of Air Traffic Control (ATC) unions going on strike and closing skies over Europe.

Since 2009, French ATC unions have staged 39 days of strike action, causing cancellations for millions of people across Europe. French ATC unions have called another closure (from Thursday 2nd to Saturday 4th July) which will again result in thousands of flights being cancelled and hundreds of thousands of consumers having their flights cancelled and/or delayed. The last closure of French air-space on 12th & 13th of April this year forced Europe’s airlines to cancel over 3,600 flights and disrupted over 500,000 consumers.

Ryanair has repeatedly called on the European Commission and European Parliament to take action to prevent these ATC strikes causing mayhem for Europe’s consumers. Ryanair has today launched Keep Europe’s Skies Open (http://www.keepeuropeskiesopen.com) an online petition offering European consumers the opportunity to join its call to protect Europe from repeated blackmail and disruption by ATC unions.

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

[airazurxtror]

A court ruled that Copenhagen airport staff had the right to refuse to service Ryanair flights in a dispute over workers' rights.

The unions have now given Ryanair two to three weeks to agree to the collective contracts. Otherwise, workers at the airport could refuse to supply its flights with vital services during the summer holiday season.

"We have instructed our lawyers to immediately appeal this ruling," Ryanair said in a statement. "We will continue to operate 12 routes to/from Copenhagen but on aircraft based outside of Denmark,"

Such a move could head off any strike action as Copenhagen airport workers may not refuse to service flights whose staff are not based in Denmark.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/ ... 01?rpc=401

[Passenger]

A court ruled that Copenhagen airport staff had the right to refuse to service Ryanair flights in a dispute over workers' rights.

The unions have now given Ryanair two to three weeks to agree to the collective contracts. Otherwise, workers at the airport could refuse to supply its flights with vital services during the summer holiday season.

"We have instructed our lawyers to immediately appeal this ruling," Ryanair said in a statement. "We will continue to operate 12 routes to/from Copenhagen but on aircraft based outside of Denmark,"

Such a move could head off any strike action as Copenhagen airport workers may not refuse to service flights whose staff are not based in Denmark.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/ ... 01?rpc=401

The Financial Times disagrees with the above extracts: "Ryanair is facing one of the biggest challenges to its low-cost model after the Irish airline lost a court case that could in effect make it impossible for the carrier to fly from Denmark.

Continues here:
https://www.google.be/?gws_rd=ssl#newwi ... st+Ryanair
yes, it's a strange link, but FT.com doesn't allow copy of direct links

[airazurxtror]

Ryanair today (2 July) released customer and load factor statistics for June as follows:
- Traffic grew 14% to 9.5m customers.
- Load factor rose 5% points to 93%.
- Rolling annual traffic to June grew 14% to 94.3m customers.

- See more at: https://www.aviation24.be/airlines_press_r ... nts-to-93/

[Passenger]

Imagine his reaction if it was Ryanair who dropped off pax at another airport from where their vacation started...

It has happened to me (although not often : thrice in more than 550 flights) and each time, Ryanair managed to bring all the passengers to destination by bus.
It's only normal and correct, for any self-respecting airline - not for Jetairfly ...

Ryanair's good faith is contradicted just yesterday in an article in The Brabants Dagblad (without details unfortunately):

"...Passagiers van Ryanair die vanwege vertraging niet meer op Eindhoven Airport mogen landen en moeten uitwijken naar andere luchthavens worden geregeld aan hun lot overgelaten. Tijdens de vlucht worden bussen beloofd om reizigers naar Eindhoven te brengen, maar eenmaal op de grond ontbreekt vervangend vervoer, of slechts een fractie van de passagiers wordt in nachtelijke uren naar eindbestemming Eindhoven Airport gebracht.De rest van de reizigers kan een taxi nemen of wachten op de eerste trein en achteraf proberen de kosten daarvan op Ryanair te verhalen..."

Ryanair passengers to Eindhoven are regularly dropped in another airport without transport to Eindhoven. During the flight Ryanair promises transport, but once landed there is no transport, or just transport for a handfull of passengers.

Example of such abondon:
http://www.hartvannederland.nl/algemeen ... r-ryanair/

[Boeing767copilot]

Ryanair to take legal action against Hertz as it ends car deal

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines_press_r ... agreement/
http://www.irishtimes.com/business/tran ... -1.2270924

[Passenger]

Summer of 2014: Dutch cycling tourists Ben en Monique van Hees are at Eindhoven Airport, for their seventh Ryanair trip to Marseille. They've paid 500 Euro for this trip: 200 for the tickets, 200 for the cycles and 100 for luggage. However, this time Ryanair Eindhoven refuses to accept their cycles: “the cycles must be packed in a box or a sack”. Their cycles are packed in a so called aviation bag they had bought in a cycle shop and that they used the previous six years - a bag that covers only 75% of the wheels to facilitate handling at… airports.

Because they’ve planned a cycling tour, they cancel their trip. The couple then contacts Ryanair several times and they get the predictable answers: first an automatic reply, then a reply with “according to our sales conditions, you are not entitled … etc etc”, then... simply nothing.

This summer, Dutch tv holiday program "Groeten Van Max" calls Ryanair to find out why they weren’t refunded, but they don’t get a clear answer by phone. A reporter therefore does the test: with the same bag, he tries to check in for a flight from Eindhoven to Dublin. Bicycle is refused, not the passenger, so he goes to the Ryanair HQ. Where he gets the same answer: our terms and conditions… it must be a bag that can be closed… damage is our responsability… However, Ryanair Dublin promised to look into the file – and indeed, the tv program recieves a mail that Ryanair offers the tourist 200 Euro: the transport costs for the bikes.

Conclusion of the tv panel : this is pure nonsense from Ryanair: the transport conditions are vague and the cycles therefore should have been accepted. But hurray: if you get 200 euro from Ryanair, accept it, because that’s 200 Euro more then you could expect to get from them.

http://groetenvanmax.omroepmax.nl/uitze ... juni-2015/

[sean1982]

And what's the point? I can find hundreds of stories like this for every airline in the world. You want me to open a seperate topic for every single one of them and flood the forum? Pathetic man

[Passenger]

And what's the point? I can find hundreds of stories like this for every airline in the world. You want me to open a seperate topic for every single one of them and flood the forum? Pathetic man

A Dutch television program about tourism with 1,5 mio viewers (*) is a bit more relevant then just a forum or statements from your corporate website, wouldn't you agree?

Furthermore, the story confirms once again that nothing has changed with Ryanair: it's still grab their money.

(*) 1,5 mio viewers is the official count for Groeten van Max, 8th June 2015.

[sean1982]

You ignored my point ... I can find stories about your precious SN, JAF or others as well ... And easily flood the forum with a new topic on every single one of them. Or you think their point is not grabbing money? they probably do it out of charity.

1,5 million viewers aint bad, but FR's corporate website gets about 4 million hits a day :p

Furthermore, between the original bike story and the new one was 1 year difference, and the outcome was completely different ... So if anything, it proves a lot has changed thank you tv program and thank you passenger for pointing this out!

BTW: this is directly from the terms and conditions, NOT unclear at all:

* Bicycles - MUST be contained in a protective box or protective bike bag in order to be accepted for travel. Electric bicycles cannot be transported by plane.

[airazurxtror]

Prince William surprised fellow travellers when he was spotted boarding a Ryanair flight to Glasgow last month. The future King was travelling to Scotland as part of his training to fly with the East Anglian Air Ambulance.
"The plane was delayed for about 20 minutes and nobody knew why," an eyewitness told The Sun. "Then when it landed we realised the Prince was on board."
"I never expected to see him on Ryanair, but it's refreshing to see a member of the royal family take a cheap flight," they added.

[airazurxtror]

Boeing 737-800 EI-FIP delivered yesterday.

[sean1982]

First picture I saw of the -700 in FR colours

http://www.planespotters.net/Aviation_P ... ?id=617843

[brusselsairlinesfan]

First picture I saw of the -700 in FR colours

http://www.planespotters.net/Aviation_P ... ?id=617843

Nice bird!