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airazurxtror
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airazurxtror wrote: If a large transatlantic carrier did decent-scale landing at Stansted, is that a connections opportunity that we’d be interested in talking in talking to Stansted and the transatlantic carrier about? Absolutely.”
Connection at Stansted with a transatlantic (budget) carrier would be a excellent substitute to the "transatlantic Ryanair" which doesn't seem to be on for the foreseable future.
And it would hopefully entail the reopening of the Charleroi-Stansted route !
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Passenger wrote:Customer service turnaround?? The daily proof of the contrary can be read here:
http://www.airlinequality.com/Forum/ryan.htm
Honestly? It looks like any other airline on Airlinequality: some good reviews, a lot of bad ones...

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Stij wrote:
Passenger wrote:Customer service turnaround?? The daily proof of the contrary can be read here:
http://www.airlinequality.com/Forum/ryan.htm
Honestly? It looks like any other airline on Airlinequality: some good reviews, a lot of bad ones...
It's not because other airlines indeed also get bad reviews, that Ryanair's reviews are to be disregarded. Ryanair promised a "Customer Service Turnaround", and the daily reports proof it is not true. Staff remains unfriendly, noisy announcements onboard haven't dissappeared, ground staff still hunts for surcharges.

I'm not going to quote some of them, but if you compare the reviews from Ryanair with those from EasyJet, it should be obvious:
http://www.airlinequality.com/Forum/easy.htm
http://www.airlinequality.com/Forum/ryan.htm

Actually, we recently have an excellent and external example that the "Customer Service Turnaround" is nonsense:
https://www.aviation24.be/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=56164

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The reviews are not to be disregarded, but to be put in perspective, as with a lot of posts on this forum as well.

And back to the NEWS on Ryanair in 2015.

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Re: Ryanair in 2015

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Two more new B737-800 in the fleet :
EI-FIL (delivered 3 June)
EI-FIM (delivered 5 June)
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Ryanair has announced plans to increase its London Luton to Copenhagen service to four times daily due to 'overwhelming demand'.

Did you say "boycott" ?
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FR has purchased a boeing 737-700 (EI-SEV) which is being painted as we speak. This aircraft will be based in DUB and will be solely used as a back-up aircraft to cover AOG's or other operational delays. Seating lay-out will be Y148

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In a final verdict issued today, Britain's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has ruled that Ryanair must reduce it's current shareholding in Aer Lingus from the current 29,8% to just 5% with as good as immediate effect to safeguard fair competition in the UK.

http://www.tijd.be/ondernemen/luchtvaar ... 1434007897

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@sean1982

thanks for this update, however one question pops up to me....
why take a -700 as back up for -800 fleet? I can guarantee you that, should a -800 go AOG in BRU e.g., we would very often not be able to accommodate all pax on this relief flight given the average loadfactor on the BRU flights....creating extra workload for groundstaff and resulting in upset pax....

just my 5cts.....

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EI-SEV will be used for crew training only.

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jerry, this is not correct .. as we speak Cabin crew are doing a differences course to be able to operate on the -700. So it will be ready to operate commercially

sim, I have no idea why they bought an extra -700. As you know maybe, there are always a few -800's spare or standby to operate "relief flights", but apparently management found the idea off having a -700 interesting. (allthough for the training department it's a huge amount of work :p)

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Ryanair Holdings PLC plans to appeal Thursday’s decision by the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority that would require the budget airline to reduce its near 30% stake in smaller Irish rival Aer Lingus Group PLC to 5%.
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Inquirer wrote:In a final verdict issued today, Britain's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has ruled that Ryanair must reduce it's current shareholding in Aer Lingus from the current 29,8% to just 5% with as good as immediate effect to safeguard fair competition in the UK.

http://www.tijd.be/ondernemen/luchtvaar ... 1434007897
Links to the decision on the CMA website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma- ... areholding

and

https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/ryanair-ae ... er-inquiry

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sean1982 wrote:I have no idea why they bought an extra -700.
Neither do I... only one possible reason pops to mind:

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=STN-JFK&R= ... =wls&DU=mi

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my educated guess is that when the -Max comes, we will see some US cities popping up on the FR route map ;)

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Under a different brand?

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not as far as I know off

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"...To all Ryanair passengers. You now have a seat assignment. So why of why are you still queuing up like morons!!?? Please locate your brains..."

Quote from Iain Inglis, 31, Ryanair pilot on Facebook:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ry ... s-5861139/

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Passenger wrote:"...To all Ryanair passengers. You now have a seat assignment. So why of why are you still queuing up like morons!!?? Please locate your brains..."

Quote from Iain Inglis, 31, Ryanair pilot on Facebook:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ry ... s-5861139/
And he's right! It's amazing! Unfortunately not only with FR but also with other companies.
Seriously, even pax without a trolley stand in line 15min before scheduled boarding these days...

The problem is a lot of pax put their brains in their suitcases before they fly...

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I hope their brains aren't overweight then, or they end up paying extra for them. :)

Seriously, the reason people queue is because all too many of them have grown accustomed to the terrible boarding practices of low costs overtime. Many can't even imagine what a pleasure it was/is to be invited to board a flight, ideally straight from the lounge.

The annoyance to flying really only started the day tickets had to be cheaper than the car park fee at the airport almost.

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