Ryanair in 2015

[airazurxtror]

Ryanair has warned a second runway at Dublin Airport must be built at a low cost and that the company will look to other European airports to grow traffic if the capital is not able to facilitate increasing passenger numbers.
The airline says their future growth at the country's busiest airport hinges on Dublin being able to cope with demand.
Ryanair's Head of Communications Robin Kiely told the Irish Independent that they support a second runway being built at an appropriate price.
"If Dublin Airport isn't able to offer the growth opportunities that we want then those passengers, those aircraft and those flights will go elsewhere.

A second parallel runway has been part of the plans for Dublin Airport since the 1970s, and land at the airport was safeguarded for this purpose for several decades.
In August 2007, DAA received planning permission for the construction of a second runway.
However, due to the economic downturn, DAA announced in 2009 that it was postponing the construction of the runway.

Read more :
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ne ... 92622.html

[sean1982]

According to De Tijd, ryanair is considering Amsterdam as a new airport in a move that would copy Easyjet.

De Tijd does not expect this to have a meaningful impact on the Belgian market as Amsterdam is too far away to attract many Belgian holiday makers for just a small potential price difference, especially not given the already much larger offer of attractively priced flights from the many nearby airports of BRU, CRL and Eindhoven.

It notes however that the move is yet another indirect proof that ryanair has cooled down a lot over its initially very ambitious plans at BRU and now gives priority to other airports, something which already got noticed here some time ago. The reason being it simply can not make many routes work from the current platform, dixit themselves.

Finally, the article mentions the combined passenger numbers over 2015 to be around 7M for Belgium, in line with previous estimates based on the numbers published by BRU and estimated at CRL, and thus far below the expected numbers announced publically by the airline itself at the start of the year.

http://www.tijd.be/ondernemen/luchtvaar ... 9-3085.art

It's quite funny to see that you seem to "analyse" that everything FR does outside of Belgium is a proof to you that Belgium ops are not going as supposed too, which couldnt be more off from the truth.

Unlike SN or JAF, Ryanair has more than one base (around 80 I think now) and therefore has interests all over europe.

[airazurxtror]

Peak summer traffic soared at Ryanair with August passenger numbers up by 10% to 10.4 million.

The load factor also increased by two percentage points to 95% over the same month last year.

The August numbers mean that the budget carrier’s annual carryings are up by 15% to 96.3 million.

[airazurxtror]

Ryanair is to open a base at Milan Malpensa Airport in December this year and a new base at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport is also set to follow, although plans to station aircraft in Paris is understood to have been delayed, at least in the short-term.

Ryanair will initially position a single Boeing 737-800 at Milan Malpensa from December 1, 2015, its 15th base in Italy. The carrier is to introduce a twice daily link to London Stansted and daily operation to Comiso as well as a four times weekly service to Bucharest and three times weekly offering to Seville during the winter 2015/2016 schedule.

“As Italy's No 1 airline, we are pleased to add another key primary airport to what is already Europe's largest route network, as we continue to connect Italy with Europe's major centres of business,” said David O'Brien, chief commercial officer, Ryanair.

“We will continue to operate and grow at Milan Bergamo Airport and as demonstrated by the success of our dual airport strategies in Brussels, Glasgow and Rome, Ryanair will remain the ideal choice for both business and leisure customers,” confirmed O’Brien.

http://www.routesonline.com/news/29/bre ... ensa-base/

[airazurxtror]

From
http://www.aviazionecivile.org/vb/showt ... otte/page6

MXP STN 0645 0745 (1234567)
MXP STN 2145 2250 (1234567)
STN MXP 0810 1110 (1234567)
STN MXP 1820 2120 (1234567)

MXP OTP 1220 1545 (1-3-5-7)
OTP MXP 1610 1730 (1-3-5-7)

MXP SVQ 1200 1430 (-2-4-6-)
SVQ MXP 1500 1730 (-2-4-6-)

MXP CIY 1755 1950 (1234567)
CIY MXP 2015 2210 (1234567)

I nuovi voli della compagnia partiranno dal terminal 1

Italia : 27 milioni di pax è l' obiettivo per il 2015.

L' obiettivo di Ryanair: arrivare a 160 milioni di pax entro il 2024 e una flotta di 520 aeromobili.

[sn26567]

New uniforms at Ryanair as part of the "Always getting better" programme:

[sn26567]

Ryanair will be opening a base at Schiphol airport this winter. The airline’s initial plan is for about 10 flights per day.

Sources close to the Irish airline confirmed this to the Telegraaf late on Monday. The decision will be officially announced in the coming weeks. Ryanair is currently active in the Netherlands only on Eindhoven airport.

Ryanair was awarded so-called landing slots at Schiphol for the winter season, which starts on October 25th. The airline had until Monday, August 31st, to decide whether or not they will actually use them.

KLM CEO Peter Elbers expressed his concern about the possible arrival of budget airline Ryanair to the airport. Elbers said that the scarce space at Schiphol must be used optimally in order to maintain the global network. The slots that the budget airline applied for earlier have not been surrendered to date, as slot coordinator Caroline Ditvoorst confirmed on Tuesday. Ryanair therefore will start at Schiphol this winter.

It is about 3,000 aircraft movements for the upcoming winter season. Ryanair has in recent years frequently requested slots for flights from Schiphol, but each time the applications were withdrawn. Up to now, this is not the case, confirmed the Airport Coordination Netherlands Foundation, the organization that assigns the slots at Schiphol.

Lelystad
If Ryanair uses the requested slots, it could operate some eight daily flights from the airport. The arrival of Ryanair completely goes against the intentions of Schiphol management to move to Lelystad airport all the flights of airlines that do not contribute properly to the network function. Ryanair falls into this category.

KLM boss Elbers said that the arrival of low-cost carriers in the long run inevitably comes at the expense of the economy, jobs and the establishment of foreign companies. "Fair competition is never a problem, but we must be wise with limited capacity to deal. I'm busy trying to reorganize KLM for a healthy future, but this does not contribute to the process," said Elbers.

A spokesman of Schiphol management calls the criticism at the airport unfair because they are not attributing the available slots to companies, but the independent slot coordinator. "We agree that airlines such as Ryanair and easyJet do not contribute to our network function, but we simply can not refuse them, as we would like it all," says the spokesman.

http://www.luchtvaartnieuws.nl/nieuws/c ... e-schiphol

It seems that we hear the same story as in Brussels, when Ryanair requested slots at the National Airport.

[sean1982]

ROFL, falling head over heels to please their most important customer. Well, SN claims to be getting better from FR competition, maybe KLM will have the same benefit.

[sn26567]

Other pics of the new uniforms:







Any picture of sean1982 with this new uniform?

[airazurxtror]

An interview of Michael O'Leary in
http://skift.com/2015/09/02/interview-r ... nbundling/

Short extract :

Skift met with O’Leary in Copenhagen to discuss the airline’s evolution :

"Our plans now for the five or 10 years are to continue ordering more short-haul Boeing aircraft and to grow rapidly here in Europe. By offering very low prices we’ve demonstrated again and again and again that wherever we offer low fares there’s enormous demand from consumers, citizens and visitors.

What the legacy carriers are trying to do is what the low-fares carriers have done for many years, which is to unbundle all these services that they previously assumed would be one big bundle and charge everybody a thousand bucks.
Now everybody’s saying: ‘let the customer choose.’ So you don’t get a free meal onboard but if you want to buy a snack onboard you can do so; if you want to bring your own food bring it. If you want to bring a checked-in bag, pay for a checked-in bag, if you don’t, you don’t have to.
You allow people to make their own choices, instead of in the old legacy model where you must pay two month’s wages but you can bring a free bag and we give you a free meal [makes “blech!” sound]. Nothing’s free.

Skift: Do you worry about legacy carriers moving to unbundled fares, like SAS’ new Go Light?
O’Leary: There’s not a lot about to worry about with SAS. They’re kind of stumbling around with Go Light and all these types of initiatives. Let’s just go honest, and lower the fares.
Skift: What about KLM’s unbundled fares, and others in Europe?
O’Leary: Honestly, I don’t pay too much attention to them. It’s all designed to replicate what the low-cost guys are doing.

Skift: The Always Getting Better campaign is a big shift away from the old Ryanair.
O’Leary: It’s been a remarkably successful shift. I think we let the customers decide.
Always Getting Better is not just about not being aggressive. It’s about listening to things about our service that our customers didn’t like and fixing those, about improving how we do things, within the existing low fare envelope.
But I think if you look at the load factor and traffic this year it’s been remarkably successful.

Skift: So where will you be in 30 years time?
O’Leary: I hope that Ryanair will be about 10 times the size it is now and instead of carrying a 100 million a year we’ll be carrying 1,000 million passengers a year.
Skift: Is the market there?
O’Leary: Across Europe, at these kinds of prices, absolutely.

When the reporter pointed out that Skytrax rates Ryanair with only two stars out of five with the flippant, he answered “I don’t pay too much attention to surveys.”
Adding: “We carry 103 million passengers a year. That’s the only survey that I really care about…
There are lots of surveys that are generally funded by our high-fare competitors. The only survey that really matters is what customers choose to do on a daily basis.”

[OO-ITR]

When the reporter pointed out that Skytrax rates Ryanair with only two stars out of five with the flippant, he answered “I don’t pay too much attention to surveys.”
Adding: “We carry 103 million passengers a year. That’s the only survey that I really care about…
There are lots of surveys that are generally funded by our high-fare competitors. The only survey that really matters is what customers choose to do on a daily basis.”

So basically what MOL is saying is that it is all about quantity...not quality...lol

[sean1982]

Off-topic post redacted.

[airazurxtror]

KLM boss Elbers said that the arrival of low-cost carriers in the long run inevitably comes at the expense of the economy, jobs and the establishment of foreign companies. "Fair competition is never a problem, but we must be wise with limited capacity to deal. I'm busy trying to reorganize KLM for a healthy future, but this does not contribute to the process," said Elbers.

A spokesman of Schiphol management calls the criticism at the airport unfair because they are not attributing the available slots to companies, but the independent slot coordinator. "We agree that airlines such as Ryanair and easyJet do not contribute to our network function, but we simply can not refuse them, as we would like it all," says the spokesman.

The interest of KLM is to have as few competitors as possible; one can't quite see how the interest of the airport operator is to refuse new customers, but if they say so ...
The point is that obviously none of them cares about the interest of the consumers.
The interest of the consumer is to have a large choice of competing Airlines, low- and high-cost.
The era of the almighty "national" carriers and the IATA cartel is over, gentlemen. The deregulation is here and now, savvy ?

[airazurxtror]

In a press conference held in Lisbon on Wednesday the chairman of Ryanair, Michael O’Leary, said that a second Lisbon airport in Montijo on the south bank of the Tagus had to be opened “urgently”.

O’Leary accused airport manager Vinci of strangling his company’s growth potential. He said that Vinci had turned down his request for more aircraft movements per hour at Lisbon adding that this could only be seen as an intention “not to want to expand so as not to hit the limit set by the government”.
“Lisbon can grow much more. It is time to consider Montijo. We want to invest in Lisbon but at the moment we are blocked by Portela (Lisbon) airport”, he said.

Michael O’Leary also revealed that the airline had submitted a proposal for flights to Terceira Island in the Azores, but that it was rejected by Portugal’s government without any explanation.

http://theportugalnews.com/news/ryanair ... eira/35810

[sdbelgium]

Rumours about a 75th base in SCQ as of March 2016. Flights are loaded in the booking engine with 6.50 departure.

[epsilon]

Same for IBZ-BLQ on friday in May. Departure at 7 in IBZ.

[airazurxtror]

That does not mean that it is a base.
For instance, Marseille is not a base, and there are flights departing to Cagliari at 06.15, to Edinburg at 06.30, to Warsaw at 06.45 ...
The aircraft and/or the crews overnighting in an airport don't make it a base.

[sdbelgium]

Marseille is a bad example. It's a essentially a base, but they don't call it that way. It operates in the same way as any other base in the network (including a briefing room).

[Inquirer]

What is the difference to customers?
if crew and aircraft overnight, to me that seems as good as a base, no?
A base to me is just a convenient way for the airline to offload all sort of housing costs etc. onto their then local staff, but for the rest? Who really cares as a passenger whether the morning flight is flown by a based aircraft or an overnighting aircraft?
Why isn't Marseille officially called a base then, sdbelgium?

[crew1990]

That does not mean that it is a base.
For instance, Marseille is not a base, and there are flights departing to Cagliari at 06.15, to Edinburg at 06.30, to Warsaw at 06.45 ...
The aircraft and/or the crews overnighting in an airport don't make it a base.

The crew are not even overnighting, operationally it's like any other bases and the crew are living there, I know what I'm talking about I was based there before but I was officially based in CRL as it has to be my following base.