Ryanair in 2013

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http://www.ryanair.com/en/news/first-no ... -marrakech
Ryanair is delighted to announce our first 2 bases in Morocco at Fez (No 56) and Marrakech (No 57) and to launch 2 new Morocco airports at Essaouira and Rabat, with flights starting in April.

[andorra-airport]

Good luck with the cabin baggage check's

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http://www.ryanair.com/en/news/ryanair- ... -2-percent

Ryanair today (3 July) released passenger and load factor stats for June 2013, with its monthly traffic increasing by 170,000 (up 2%) to 7.96m passengers over June 2012. Ryanair’s rolling 12-month traffic to June 2013 rose by 4% to a record 79.9m passengers.
The 80m mark still missed - reached hopefully next month ?

[airazurxtror]

The Council of the so-called "Ryanair Pilot Group" has five members - John Goss is the one and only Ryanair pilot, the other four are pilots of Aer Lingus, Air France, KLM and Southwest.
One wonders what business a Southwest pilot has here.
One does not wonder what the other three pilots have as interest in the matter : they obviously are there to try and eliminate a dangerous competitor.

http://www.independent.ie/business/worl ... 94157.html

[shockcooling]

Dear airazurxtror,

I think your post ended up in the wrong topic...

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Dear airazurxtror,

I think your post ended up in the wrong topic...

Back in the right topic!

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Ryanair is planning to add new routes in Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland and Scandinavia later this year.

Chief executive Michael O’Leary said there were “significant growth opportunities” in markets where other airlines were cutting back.

“We plan to announce more new routes and new bases later this year as we exploit significant growth opportunities in markets where competitors including Air Berlin, Alitalia, Iberia, LOT, and SAS are cutting back,” added O’Leary.

“Our seven new bases Eindhoven and Maastricht (Holland), Krakow (Poland), Zadar (Croatia), Chania (Greece), Marrakesh and Fez (Morocco) are performing well.”

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In the same interview to The Financial Times, Ryanair has admitted that it is flying its aircraft "more slowly" to save money as its fuel bill continues to rise.

The airline's chief financial officer Howard Millar told the Financial Times that it was reducing fuel use by flying at a lower speed which was adding about two minutes per hour of flight time.

[airazurxtror]

The 80m mark still missed - reached hopefully next month ?

Indeed !
80,1 million passengers in the 12 months ending 31 July 2013 :

http://www.ryanair.com/en/news/ryanair- ... -1-percent

[Passenger]

Tonight (8 p.m. local) in "Dispatches" - Channel 4: "Ryanair - Secrets from the Cockpit".

Quote from Channel 4: "...Reporter Seyi Rhodes hears from pilots of Europe's biggest airline about their concerns around passenger safety. Serving Ryanair pilots reveal their worries over Ryanair's fuel policy and pilot working conditions. Rhodes also examines the events of one evening in 2012 when three diverted Ryanair planes radioed 'mayday' over an airport in Valencia in Spain..."

Dispatches - Channel 4:
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/

Article in Dutch about this broadcast: HLN.be:
http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/942/Economie/a ... teit.dhtml

[Boeing767copilot]

Ryanair Statement On So Called “Pilots Survey”

Ryanair today (12th August) dismissed inaccurate reports in a number of UK papers, including the Financial Times and the Daily Telegraph, which made references to a “survey of Ryanair pilots” and comments attributed to an Evert Van Zwol, the self styled Chairman of the Ryanair Pilot Group’s Interim Council.

Ryanair pointed out the Ryanair Pilot Group is in fact a Non Ryanair Pilot Group (NRPG), as it is a PR front for the European Cockpit Association, which is the group representing pilot trade unions of Ryanair’s competitor airlines.

Ryanair also pointed out that the self proclaimed Chairman of this Non Ryanair Group “Interim Council”, Evert Van Zwol, is in fact a serving KLM pilot and recent President of the Dutch Pilot Union. Ryanair finds it strange that the Financial Times and others attribute quotes about Ryanair’s safety to this individual without pointing out (in the interest of balance and accuracy) that he is not a Ryanair pilot, but is rather a KLM pilot and the recent President of the Dutch Pilot Trade Union.

Ryanair pointed out that this so called pilot survey was in fact fabricated by the European Cockpit Association (ECA) which is the pilot trade union club for Ryanair’s competitor airlines. Another member of the NRPG Interim Council is a Ted Murphy, a lifelong Aer Lingus pilot, former Chairman of the Aer Lingus pilots union IALPA, and a two term President of IFALPA, the international pilots union.

Ryanair’s Robin Kiely said:

“The Non Ryanair Pilot Group (NRPG )is quite clearly a PR front for pilot trade unions of Ryanair’s competitor airlines. A so called “survey” fabricated by these ECA pilot unions, which does not have access to or contact with the entire 3,000 plus pilots employed by Ryanair, lacks any independence, objectivity or reliability. It is another failed attempt by ECA pilot unions to use non-existent safety “concerns” to advance their 25 year failed campaign to win union recognition in Ryanair.

“Both Ryanair and the Irish Aviation Authority operate confidential safety reporting systems which allow any Ryanair pilot with any legitimate safety concerns to report these in complete confidentiality – without any fear of reprisal – either through Ryanair’s confidential system or the IAA’s independent and confidential system.

Ryanair’s outstanding 29 year safety record is a matter of rigorous oversight and fact based evidence. It is not something that can be voted on or subjected to anonymous or fabricated trade union surveys. It has been rigorously regulated and independently verified by the Irish Aviation Authority, operating to the highest EU safety requirements – and the IAA have recently confirmed that “Ryanair’s safety is on a par with the safest airlines in Europe”.

Source: Ryanair 12/08/2013

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Ryanair pilots raise safety concerns

A survey of Ryanair pilots has found concerns about the low-cost carrier’s safety culture, and support for an inquiry by regulators. The survey of more than 1,000 captains and first officers (more than 1/3 of the total) was commissioned by the Ryanair Pilot Group, which is seeking to have the airline’s pilots represented by trade unions in negotiations on pay and working conditions.

• 89% of the pilots said that Ryanair had an open and transparent safety culture.
• 67% did not feel comfortable raising safety issues through Ryanair’s internal reporting system.
• 94% believed regulators should conduct an inquiry into the impact of Ryanair’s employment practices on safety.

Ryanair, Europe’s largest budget airline by revenue, declined to comment on the survey on Sunday, but said it had an “unblemished 29-year safety record”.

Details from The Financial Times

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Ryanair to take legal action following Channel 4 documentary

Ryanair is to take legal action against Channel 4 following a documentary in which its own pilots questioned its safety standards.

In a statement issued as soon as the Dispatches programme was aired on Monday evening, the airline said the programme had impugned its 29-year safety record based on “nothing more than anonymous hearsay”.

Full article from Buying Business Travel

[Tomskii]

Seems like the way to go for RYR anyways, shut up your staff so nothing negative gets published and all what is published negatively gets sued. Sad stuff though, RYR could have a positive strategy and still be the lowcost airline of europe.

[regi]

Ryanair to take legal action following Channel 4 documentary

Ryanair is to take legal action against Channel 4 following a documentary in which its own pilots questioned its safety standards.

In a statement issued as soon as the Dispatches programme was aired on Monday evening, the airline said the programme had impugned its 29-year safety record based on “nothing more than anonymous hearsay”.

Full article from Buying Business Travel

another anounced "legal action".
I still wait the verdict about the hi jacking at Liege...
There is a great difference between saying " we go to court!", and actually going to court, and having the case been accepted , and even then, winning the court case.
I just remember some cases where Ryanair actually lost their cases against the EU.
Anounced court cases against passengers, striking traffic controllers, ash clouds
Truth is that they get this on their plate : a real court case!
http://www.independent.ie/business/worl ... 21305.html
This is a matter of clash of the titans: German company Hochtief against Irisch Ryanair.
Hard against unsoft.

Back on topic:
Ryanair is a company and the sole purpose of a company is to make profit. So be it.

[airazurxtror]

John Goss, the pilot who spat in the soup on Channel4, has been sacked by Ryanair.

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-ne ... er-2170091

Ryanair said it had instructed its lawyers to issue legal proceedings against Goss.

[cnc]

by doing so they show the world he is right... bad move from FR

[regi]

oh well, they failed to bully the Dutch channel KRO
just in Dutch:
http://www.villamedia.nl/nieuws/bericht ... an-ryanair

But in fact, this is not really on topic.
It should be about the figures in 2013. Not how many law suits are really running against or by them.

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Ryanair’s Robin Kiely said:

“The Non Ryanair Pilot Group (NRPG) is ...

Indeed! Ryanair has fired its only pilot who dared openly join RPG. All the others are too scared to loose their jobs by openly joining a trade union.

[airazurxtror]

by doing so they show the world he is right... bad move from FR

And if they do nothing about it, that would mean he is right ...
Seriously, now, no company would put up with such a behaviour, from one of its employees.