koja78 wrote:I don't think the market is there.. otherwise it would have been done.
Not necessarily. I once asked the question to Michael O'Leary at one of his press conferences. He said Ryanair is speaking with many airports which are not yet served, including OST. But at this moment, Ryanair doesn't have enough aircraft to go everywhere they would like to go. But the new aircraft are coming now.
Indeed, new aircraft are coming. But at the same time, many aircraft leave the fleet. So they will continue to say "we don't have enough aircraft to go everywhere where we would like to go to" when there is simply no market for them.
There are three reason why they won't fly to OST again: competition from the Eurostar, Belgium's terrorism image, and the new European rules for subsidies/sponsoring by local authorities.
As of today, 355 aircraft in the fleet. It means that most of the new aircraft are being used on top of the existing fleet, at least for the Summer season. In a few months the older ones (DAx) will probably be leaving.
3toons wrote:s a bus service from Charleroi to Bruges and that Ryanair are going to start flights from Glasgow International to Charleroi twice a week. If there is a bus that will connect with the flight then I will use it.
megabus!
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sdbelgium wrote:As of today, 355 aircraft in the fleet. It means that most of the new aircraft are being used on top of the existing fleet, at least for the Summer season. In a few months the older ones (DAx) will probably be leaving.
Indeed only few aircraft will be retired. Passenger's Google is malfunctioning
sdbelgium wrote:As of today, 355 aircraft in the fleet. It means that most of the new aircraft are being used on top of the existing fleet, at least for the Summer season. In a few months the older ones (DAx) will probably be leaving.
Indeed only few aircraft will be retired. Passenger's Google is malfunctioning
1. not me, but someone else needs Google for his daily wartaal.
2. I've never said that 355 737's isn't impressive. But airlines only announce which new aircraft join the fleet, not which aircraft leave the fleet and not how many aircraft are grounded or leased out during European winter. Example: see above"only few aircraft will be retired". One aviation newsletter (subscription) recently published the real figure for Ryanair - will try to look for it in my mailbox.
3. one doens't need to Google to know that Ryanair will not return to Ostend because of three quite ovious reasons:
competition from the Eurostar, Belgium's terrorism image, and the new European rules for subsidies/sponsoring by local authorities.
sn26567 wrote:Terror Threat: Ryanair plane evacuated in Norway
A Ryanair plane in Norway scheduled to fly from Oslo Rygge to Manchester has been evacuated by police. Two suspicious passengers were taken off the plane and arrested. The suspects are from Sri Lanka, and the United Kingdom. Police investigators will question the two arrested Sunday night. Source: eTN
Around that time, the Premier League Soccer game Manchester United-Bornemouth was cancelled. Reason: a real bomb was discovered in one of the Old Trafford grandstands. So there was probably a higher alert for all Manchester bound aircraft. Only late on Sunday, police found out that the bomb at Old Trafford Stadium was forgotten during a training for sniffer dogs a few days ago. Thus no explosives or detonator.
3toons wrote:I live in Dreghorn, between Prestwick and Glasgow airports. I know about the bus and it is very good value for money. If there is a bus and train that connects with the flight from Glasgow then I would definately use the bus. It would be better if the bus continued on to Ostend. When Ryanair starts flying between Glasgow and Charleroi in October it will only be twice a week but I'm sure they could easily have daily flights. When they flew from Prestwick the flights were always very busy.
The Flibco schedule says it takes 2 hours and 10 minutes between Charleroi and Brugge. 17 euro each way.
I think I'll definately use the bus the next time I go to Ostend, which won't be until November at the earliest. Hopefully Flibco will extend the service to Ostend.
In UK , Ryanair's EU referendum ad investigated by police.
Police are investigating a complaint from the Vote Leave campaign that a Ryanair ad offering cheap flights to expats who want to vote to remain in the European Union breaches bribery laws.
The Ryanair “Brexit special” says overseas voters can “fly home to vote ‘remain’” from €19.99 on the day of the referendum, 23 June, or the day before, 22 June.
Vote Leave campaign director Dominic Cummings described the offer as “corrupt” and alleged it broke referendum rules and section 1 of the Bribery Act 2010.
Ryanair owner Michael O’Leary, a prominent backer of the remain campaign, said the complaint was “desperate” and in response extended the airline’s offer by a further 24 hours on Friday.
FULL YEAR PROFIT RISES 43% TO €1,242M
23 May 2016
Lower Fares, AGB & Cost Control Delivers Strong Traffic & Profit Growth
Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (May 23) reported full year profits of €1,242m, a 43% increase on the prior year. Traffic grew 18% to 106m as load factor jumped 5% points to 93%. Ave. fare dropped 1% to €46 as unit costs fell 6% (ex-fuel down 2%) in Year 2 of its Always Getting Better (“AGB”) programme.
Impressive result indeed!
Interesting to read that they already hedged 44% of their 2018 fuel at 50§. This will give them a huge advantage over those wo can't afford to hedge in the upcoming price war.
