Ryanair in 2015

[sean1982]

Just a damplease for some smartlynx A320's for MAD in summer due to aircraft shortage

[airazurxtror]

Ryanair will launch seven new routes from Cologne next winter as part of plans to double its traffic at the airport.

The budget carrier will introduce a four-times daily service to Berlin and new services to Copenhagen (daily), Gran Canaria (once weekly), Milan (twice daily), Porto (four times weekly), Valencia (thrice weekly) and Warsaw (daily).

Ryanair said it will also operate 17 weekly flights to London Stansted, four to Palma, a twice-daily service to Rome Ciampino and a thrice-weekly service to Tenerife.

In total, it will operate 17 routes and 129 weekly flights to/from Cologne in winter 2015/16.

The airline will also base three aircraft at the airport, up from one currently.

http://www.businesstraveller.com/news/1 ... gne-routes

http://corporate.ryanair.com/news/news/ ... ?market=ie

[sean1982]

http://digitalaviation.blogspot.co.uk/2 ... n.html?m=1

Interesting

[MrG4]

Cgn-Sxf. first route in the german domestic market, finally. Next ones? Cgn-Ham or Sxf-Str?

[airazurxtror]

Thanks to an agreement that will be announced tomorrow, Ryanair will start operating flights to Castellón-Costa Azahar airfield.

The airport was built at a cost of €150 million ($161 million) and inaugurated in March 2011, but since then its state-of-the-art metal clad terminal has yet to receive a single visitor or see a single aircraft land on its 3,000 meters of virgin runway.

Ryanair is expected to announce that flights will begin between Castellón and destinations in Britain, Germany and Sweden.

http://www.thelocal.es/20150310/ryanair ... f-castelln
http://economia.elpais.com/economia/201 ... 27300.html

Castellon airport lies near the spanish mediterranean coast, due east of Madrid, about midway between Valencia and Tarragona.

[crew1990]

Spain, the country building useless airport, Ciudad Real, Llerida... At least Ryanair give them a chance.

[koja78]

I enjoyed flying into VLL many years back... from the old CRL terminal.

[cathay belgium]

Hi,

Noticed that the ryanair sites has some remarks, flights loaded, unloaded? , bookable, not bookable ...
Problems with FR servers?


CXB

[airazurxtror]

Ryanair today (11 Mar) launched its Stansted winter 2015 schedule with two new routes to Castellon and Ponta Delgada (110 in total), and extra flights on 23 other routes, including Berlin (4 x daily), Edinburgh (4 x daily), Glasgow (4 x daily), Madrid (4 x daily), Milan (5 x daily), Prague (2 x daily), Rome (5 x daily) and Warsaw (4 x daily) which will deliver over 18m customers p.a.

Ryanair’s Chief Marketing Officer, Kenny Jacobs discussed the new schedule:
"Ryanair will continue to connect London with Europe’s key centres of business, making Ryanair the ideal choice for business customers, and reaffirming Stansted as the gateway to London, with more European connections than any other London airport."

See more at: http://corporate.ryanair.com/news/news/ ... 3V2ts.dpuf

Attn Lex : it seems that the frequencies to Eindhoven will be raised to three daily flights on weekdays, two on saturday and sunday ?

[airazurxtror]

Ryanair today (16 Mar) launched its Winter 2015 schedule (3 months earlier than 2014) with more routes, additional flights and improved schedules.

Ryanair customers can now choose from over 1,600 routes across its European network.

Ryanair’s Chief Marketing Officer, Kenny Jacobs said:
“Ryanair is pleased to launch our biggest ever Winter schedule, with more flights, routes and destinations, as we continue to grow Europe’s biggest route network".

- See more at: http://corporate.ryanair.com/news/news/ ... 3EahG.dpuf

[Flanker2]

Sean, you have to admit that Inquirer has a point here.

I mirror my post of the superfares topic:

20% off is what we go for nowadays? Ah how I miss those Ryanair 1 euro fares of 10 years ago.
Nowadays it's hard to find both a decent schedule and fares below 50 euro's one-way, as I was afraid would happen with FR's "new strategy". They are destroying their business model.

Ryanair is taking dangerous steps towards becoming a legacy airline.
They are taking the centuries old approach of running everybody out of business, then jacking up the prices.

I didn't mind Ryanair raising their fares slightly, but in recent times on the set of destinations that I fly, fares have doubles or tripled versus previous years, while frequencies have been spread very thin. This is probably the expense to pay for FR going into traditional airports.

I like the old saying " if it ain't broke, don't fix it".

[airazurxtror]

Ryanair is still the first choice because
- their fares are lower, often much lower than Brussels Airlines and the other high-cost carriers - also often lower than the other low-cost carriers such as easyJet and Vueling
- they have a larger choice of European destinations - from Charleroi if not (yet) from Brussels
- their ponctuality and reliability are outstanding

[Flanker2]

Ryanair is still the first choice because

That's the best way to describe it indeed.
Before they used to be "by far" the first choice, now they are ""still" the first choice.
The question is for how long?

For my main destination, I'm looking at fares of over 200 euro's return, 4 months ahead of departure, with a departure from CRL or EIN, not Zaventem. That's not a low fare, that's racket.

I have no use for Ryanair if they can't offer low fares and a schedule/frequency that connects on to scarce public transportation, no matter how many destinations they have, or how many main airports they expand onto.

[airazurxtror]

For my main destination, I'm looking at fares of over 200 euro's return, 4 months ahead of departure, with a departure from CRL or EIN, not Zaventem. That's not a low fare, that's racket.

I don' know what your "main destination" is, but 4 months ahead of departure is very rarely the time when you get the lowest price - which is often offered around 2 months before departure.

[Passenger]

Ryanair is still the first choice because
- their fares are lower, often much lower than Brussels Airlines and the other high-cost carriers - also often lower than the other low-cost carriers such as easyJet and Vueling
- they have a larger choice of European destinations - from Charleroi if not (yet) from Brussels
- their ponctuality and reliability are outstanding

1. there are no high cost carriers in Western Europe anymore, except for the full business class long haul airlines. Example in Belgium: VLM Airlines is cheaper today then ten years ago.

2. many objective comparisons have proven that “Ryanair is often much cheaper” is not correct: it’s just “sometimes cheaper”. Fact is that other airlines (low cost and/or legacy carriers) are often cheaper then Ryanair. Example: the 69 € return fare at Brussels Airlines.

3. Ryanair has a cheap “as from fare”, but like Flanker here states: you won’t find those cheap rates if you need them

4. punctuality is a fact, simply because they don’t have to care for connecting passengers (it's not possible with Ryanair)

5. Reliability: I disagree. If something goes wrong (example a weather divertion), you’re left stranded and without assistance, and the umbrella "extraordinary circumstances" opens.

6. Ryanair has the longest list of surcharges and penalties in the world. That makes them the most used airline and the most hated airline at the same time.

[airazurxtror]

Don't make us laugh with those famous and elusive "69" fares !
To begin with, try and find a day return at 69 euros - or at less than 169 euros, for that matter.

(On my trip reports, I give the price of the tickets - why don't the Brussel Airlines users do the same ? Are they ashamed of the fares ?).

My last ones, purchased yesterday : Charleroi-Perugia for 18,39 euros, Ancona-Charleroi for 10,19 euros (end April).

[sean1982]

Oh it's another one of those let's piss on FR days
If you call a 4 million € loss a strong financial performance inquirer you need your head checked. I think the collective rackham orgasm is still clouding your judgement. SN is doing well yes, but not on the routes in direct competition with FR and VY with their yields dropping by 25% there. In the Meanwhile Ryanair is slowly but surely and sensibly expanding their flights from BRU and CRL

(I see the usual censorship is also creeping in on the forum again. Queue the Benny Hill Theme)

[Passenger]

I think the collective rackham orgasm is still clouding your judgement.

This pissy reaction proofs that Brussels Airlines has done extremely exceptionally well with their Tintin/Kuifje aircraft. Must be terrible indeed for those who hate it so much: Rackham is going to be in Brussels till 2019!

[sean1982]

It's not a pissy reaction at all its a good looking plane, but I dont get the excitment. There are 1000 special liveries flying around and they certainly are not going to raise the yields on the BCN flights (to name one)

[airazurxtror]

This pissy reaction proofs that Brussels Airlines has done extremely exceptionally well with their Tintin/Kuifje aircraft. Must be terrible indeed for those who hate it so much: Rackham is going to be in Brussels till 2019!

First, it's Tintin and not Kuifje : "We fly you to the home of Tintin". Tintin has been translated in many languages, but the original is a french speaking BD.

It's not terrible at all for those who don't like it; but I wouldn't have put the design of a submarine on an aircraft - is it meant to end up in the bottom of the sea, as happened to quite a few aircraft lately ? In my view, it's a bad omen.