Ryanair in 2015

[sn26567]

I guess it's a way to circumvent French legislation which requests airlines with a base in France to pay those French-based crew according to French standards with regard to taxes, social security, and so on.

[Inquirer]

And they get away with this semantic trick?
Amazing!

[airazurxtror]

The French government edicted a law against Ryanair to protect Air France, but MRS was not at all pleased with it, and the mayor of Marseille, Jean-Claude Gaudin, was dead against it. Ryanair is important to Marseille.

"On ne peut que déplorer l'attitude des syndicats qui ont poussé l'entreprise irlandaise hors du territoire français", affirme M. Gaudin dans un communiqué de presse, faisant allusion à la mise en examen fin septembre, par un juge du tribunal d'Aix-en-Provence, de la compagnie irlandaise pour "travail dissimulé" à la suite de la plainte de plusieurs syndicats de personnels.
Le maire de Marseille "espère que ce comportement irresponsable ne conduira pas l'aéroport de Marignane dans la même impasse que celle connue aujourd'hui par le Grand port maritime de Marseille", dont les salariés des terminaux pétroliers de Fos-sur-Mer et Lavera sont en grève pour le 17e jour consécutif, a-t-il ajouté.
Selon l'élu marseillais, le gagnant de ce départ annoncé de la compagnie, pour le 11 janvier 2011, n'est autre que "le groupe Air France qui retrouve, ainsi, son monopole, en imposant aux Français des tarifs beaucoup plus élevés".

http://www.leparisien.fr/marseille-1300 ... 82%2Cd.d2s

[Passenger]

The French government edicted a law against Ryanair to protect Air France, but MRS was not at all pleased with it, and the mayor of Marseille, Jean-Claude Gaudin, was dead against it. Ryanair is important to Marseille.

"On ne peut que déplorer l'attitude des syndicats qui ont poussé l'entreprise irlandaise hors du territoire français", affirme M. Gaudin dans un communiqué de presse, faisant allusion à la mise en examen fin septembre, par un juge du tribunal d'Aix-en-Provence, de la compagnie irlandaise pour "travail dissimulé" à la suite de la plainte de plusieurs syndicats de personnels.
Le maire de Marseille "espère que ce comportement irresponsable ne conduira pas l'aéroport de Marignane dans la même impasse que celle connue aujourd'hui par le Grand port maritime de Marseille", dont les salariés des terminaux pétroliers de Fos-sur-Mer et Lavera sont en grève pour le 17e jour consécutif, a-t-il ajouté.
Selon l'élu marseillais, le gagnant de ce départ annoncé de la compagnie, pour le 11 janvier 2011, n'est autre que "le groupe Air France qui retrouve, ainsi, son monopole, en imposant aux Français des tarifs beaucoup plus élevés".

http://www.leparisien.fr/marseille-1300 ... 82%2Cd.d2s

This is an article from 2010, thus long before Ryanair was condemned by a French court (twice actually). I'm pretty sure that the mayor of Marseille accepts the rule of law (= what a judge says, is more important then what O'Leary says).

[airazurxtror]

EI-FIS Boeing 737-8AS/W c/n 44704 Ryanair Delivered Boeing Field-Dublin 04/09/15.

[MrG4]

Next Thursday press conference in Bgy. MOL will be there

[sn26567]

EI-FIS Boeing 737-8AS/W c/n 44704 Ryanair Delivered Boeing Field-Dublin 04/09/15.

... and already in BRU (from DUB) on 8/09/2015

[airazurxtror]

Ryanair Holdings Plc raised its full-year profit goal because of strong summer ticket sales.

Profit after tax for the 12 months to March 31 will be in a range of 1.175 billion euros to 1.225 billion euros, compared with a previous target of 940 million euros to 970 million euros.

Ryanair also increased its full-year traffic target 1 percent to 104 million passengers.

Full-year results remain “heavily dependent” on sales through the fiscal third and fourth quarters, Ryanair said. Additional capacity and lower fuel prices are likely to generate a fare war as carriers fight to attract passengers.

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines_press_r ... -2billion/

[airazurxtror]

Ryanair has declared victory over Chinese hackers and clawed back around $5 million (£3.25 million) stolen in a bogus wire transfer.
Funds used by the budget carrier to buy fuel were intercepted by hackers earlier this year.
The company said measures had been taken to protect it from similar attacks.

[airazurxtror]

Ryanair shares surged Wednesday, bringing their gain for the year to 47 percent, after the Dublin-based carrier raised its profit forecast. The company now is valued at 18.8 billion euros ($21 billion), making it the world’s fifth-most valuable carrier and putting it within hailing distance of Southwest, ranked third at $25.1 billion.

Remarkably, investors have awarded Ryanair its hefty market value even though the company has a fraction of the revenue of full-service carriers such as Delta Air Lines Inc., a sign that money managers see the low-cost model as the surest route to growing profits in the industry.

Air France-KLM is Europe’s biggest airline by traffic, which measures passengers multiplied by the distance flown, and has annual sales of about 25 billion euros, which dwarfs Ryanair’s 5.7 billion euros. Air France-KLM’s market value? Just under 2 billion euros.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... rket-value

[airazurxtror]

In comments to The Portugal News, Ryanair explained: “This flight from Oporto to Brussels (9 Sep) was delayed ahead of take-off after a hoax bomb threat was received. Customers disembarked normally, the police carried out a security search and cleared the aircraft to return to service. Ryanair sincerely apologises to its customers for the consequent 2hr 45min delay.”

The plane had 180 passengers and six crew on board.

[airazurxtror]

http://www.thelocal.it/20150910/unlike- ... yanair-ceo

Extracts :

In Rome to launch new routes, the low-cost carrier's chief executive joked that Ryanair was now too valuable to be vulnerable to a bid from the deep-pocketed carriers of the Gulf.
And he said he could not envisage getting into the kind of partnership low-cost rival Air Berlin has forged with Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways, which also now controls Alitalia.
"Ever is a long time and you should never say never," O'Leary said. "But unlike Alitalia, we don't need the Gulf carriers, we compete with them.

O'Leary said the Gulf's airlines were focused on the long haul market, meaning their partnerships in Europe served primarily to funnel passengers towards their Middle Eastern hubs.
"I don't see the Gulf carriers as the enemy. The fact they're running Alitalia and Air Berlin for their own interests means they keep them as pretty poor competition for us."

Ryanair announced a total of seven new routes from Rome's Ciampino and Fiumicino airports for the summer 2016 season.
They include new daily services to Berlin, Bucharest, Copenhagen and Malta and flights either two or three times a week to Rabat, Alicante in Spain and the Greek island of Kos.

O'Leary said Ryanair would like to expand even further in Italy and urged the authorities to lift "artificial" restrictions on the number of flights that can be operated from Ciampino. It was always a political thing about protecting Fiumicino and Alitalia. Now Alitalia is owned by Etihad, why not have more competition between the two airports?"

[airazurxtror]

EI-FIT Boeing 737-8AS/W c/n 44703 Ryanair Delivered Boeing Field-Dublin 09/09/15.

[airazurxtror]

An interesting analysis : Best day of week to buy Ryanair tickets

http://www.airhint.com/ryanair/best-weekday

Extracts :

To sum up, the following conclusion can be made from Ryanair flight prices analysis.
• Prices drop most often on Thursdays (23% of all drops) and by far most rarely on weekends: Saturdays (2%) and Sundays (2%).
• Price increases are mostly automatic and decreases are enabled manually.
• Average prices do not vary per the day of week of purchase.
• Average price vary per the day of week of departure and airport.
◦ For UK departures, highest prices were observed on Friday and lowest on Mon-Wed.
◦ For Barcelona as an example of a holiday destination, highest prices were observed on Sundays and Mondays.

[sn26567]

Ryanair to open Santiago de Compostela base in Summer 2016

Ryanair has announced it will open its twelfth Spanish base in Santiago de Compostela with effect from summer 2016. The Irish LCC intends to base one B737-800 at the northwestern airport.

Currently, Ryanair connects Santiago de Compostela with Alicante, Barcelona, Frankfurt Hahn, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, London Stansted, Madrid, Malaga, Milan Orio al Serio, Palma de Mallorca, Seville, Tenerife Sur, and Valencia.

Source: ch-aviation

[airazurxtror]

Ryanair today touched down at Spain’s ghost airport of Castellón - which welcomed its first commercial flight since opening in 2011.
Flight FR8555 arrived at the infamous eastern hub, which cost €150 million to construct and has remained empty for four and a half years, at 10:26 a.m. local time. It was 14 minutes early.
The aircraft and the virgin runway it landed on were “blessed” with water cannons, as crowds of workers cheered the arrival.

Ryanair is to fly three times a week to the airport from London Stansted, and is also set to launch a twice weekly service between Castellón and Bristol.

Ryanair struck a deal to fly to and from the airport earlier this year. It’s hoped that other operators will follow.

[sn26567]

Ryanair struck a deal to fly to and from the airport earlier this year.

I guess this means Ryanair got a hefty cash incentive to fly to that airport in the middle of nowhere!

[MrG4]

Press conference at OTP on Thursday.

[DutchNL]

And tomorrow press conference with MOL at AMS.

[sean1982]

Ryanair struck a deal to fly to and from the airport earlier this year.

I guess this means Ryanair got a hefty cash incentive to fly to that airport in the middle of nowhere!

So what?