Ryanair in 2015

[Inquirer]

So I see now! Thanks!
Ever tried the Vueling flight then?
It seems it's not going to come back next summer, something I accidentally discovered when trying to book a city trip for my parent's wedding anniversary, as we think it's cool to have them go to the city by water taxi, but you need to go to Venice airport itself for that.

[sean1982]

Didn't know anybody else flew to Verona from BRU even?

Air Dolimiti flew it several years ago with CRJ-200 and ATR-42/72.
FR will have a pressconference next month in BRU.
BTW, FR is very happy in BRU

Aah .. Is the press conference finally scheduled?

[sn26567]

Aah .. Is the press conference finally scheduled?

I haven't received an invitation yet

[airazurxtror]

Transavia veut devenir N°1 à Orly… avant l'arrivée de Ryanair?
Antoine Pussiau, son PDG, a des ambitions: "Transavia France sera la première compagnie aérienne sur Orly à destination de l'Europe. Nous disposerons de 47 destinations, soit 8 de plus qu'en 2014".

Mais la crainte de voir arriver Ryanair sur Orly reste forte. Si la low cost irlandaise quitte Beauvais - mais quittera t-elle cette plateforme? - c'est avec quelques projets derrière la tête.
On devrait (peut-être) en savoir plus ce 21 janvier à Paris: Ryanair y organise une rarissime conférence de presse. De quoi échauffer les esprits des compagnies régulières françaises.

Ryanir press conference wednesday in Paris : could it be to announce its arrival at Orly ?

http://www.deplacementspros.com/Transav ... 30944.html

[airazurxtror]

La compagnia irlandese Ryanair punta su Malpensa. Addirittura potrebbe essere operativa già da giugno. Le voci - secondo quanto scritto dal giornale La Provincia di Varese - parlano di quattro aerei in arrivo a Malpensa, destinazione Terminal 1, per altrettante mete europee da servire. Roger Zanesco di Aeroporti Lombardi sostiene che anche se la compagnia "non è l’ideale e non è quello che attendiamo per il rilancio, potrebbe tamponare qualche falla".

Potrebbe interessarti: http://www.milanotoday.it/cronaca/ryana ... pensa.html
http://www.laprovinciadivarese.it/stori ... 100334_11/

It is rumoured in Italy that Ryanair could base four aircraft at Milano Malpensa, already in June.

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RYANAIR boss Michael O'Leary has vowed to pass tumbling oil prices onto passengers with cheaper fares from the beginning of next year.

The head of the no-frills Irish carrier, which already boasts the cheapest fares in Europe on average, said they tend to bulk buy oil six to 12 months in advance and had hedged their existing supply at $93 a barrel.
However, Mr O'Leary said they expected to see the current low prices filter through to their bottom line by the end of this year, and promised to cut the cost of tickets as a result.

He said: "Lower oil prices will have a tremendous effect on the airline industry. It will never have been cheaper to fly from your local airport."
Airline association IATA has predicted that over the course of 2015 consumers can expect to see worldwide airfares decrease by an average of 5 per cent.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/tran ... .116527463

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Ryanair is hoping to fly 100 million passengers in its next financial year, according to one of its most senior executives.
The Irish airline expects to have carried 90 million passengers when its current fiscal year ends on March 31st and to have earned profits of between €750 million and €770 million.
Speaking at the Annual Global Airfinance Conference in Dublin, its recently-appointed chief financial officer, Neil Sorahan, suggested that passenger numbers could reach 100 million in the 12 months to March 31st, 2016.

Read more :
http://www.irishtimes.com/business/tran ... -1.2073145

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SCOTLAND will be the focus of Ryanair’s planned “strong growth” in the UK over the next four years, chief executive Michael O’Leary said today as he announced a new Glasgow-Berlin route and more flights between the city and Stansted.
The airline will also add a fourth daily Stansted flight from Edinburgh, and add flights on Edinburgh routes to Alicante, Frankfurt Hahn, Krakow, Malaga and Tenerife from October.
The Berlin Schönefeld route from October - Ryanair’s tenth from Glasgow - will initially operate five times a week but Mr O’Leary expects it will soon go daily.
It will coincide with a fourth daily return flight on the Glasgow to Stansted route, which was launched last October.
Flights have been operating 90 per cent full, with a fifth daily service expected to follow.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/ ... -1-3666714

[airazurxtror]

No mention of Orly at the French press conference this morning, but more flights at Beauvais to Bristol, Madrid, Roma and Warsaw; Palermo, Thessaloniki, Wroclaw as new destinations.
Weekly : 236 return flights from Paris-Beauvais to 48 destinations (and Beauvais is not even a Ryanair base)

Ryanair a lancé aujourd’hui son programme d’été 2015 au départ de Paris-Beauvais avec au total 236 vols aller-retour hebdomadaires sur 48 lignes.

Ryanair a présenté ce mercredi matin 21 janvier à Paris son « programme d’été 2015 » au départ de Beauvais (Oise). La compagnie a annoncé l’ouverture de trois nouvelles lignes vers (et depuis) Palerme (Sicile), Thessalonique (Grèce) et Wroclaw (quatrième ville polonaise), à raison de trois rotations par semaine pour les deux premières destinations et quatre pour la troisième.
Ryanair a également promis des vols supplémentaires à destination de Bristol, Madrid, Rome et Varsovie.

http://www.courrier-picard.fr/region/tr ... 0b0n505452

[airazurxtror]

En France, Ryanair aurait-elle l'intention d'ouvrir de nouvelles lignes depuis Orly plutôt que Beauvais, un aéroport inconfortable et très éloigné de Paris? «Non, répond sans hésitation David O'Brian, le directeur commercial de Ryanair. Orly est saturé et compte tenu des plaintes des riverains, personne ne sait si cet aéroport sera encore là dans 20 ans!» s'exclame-t-il.
Roissy en revanche n'est pas totalement exclu même si la compagnie n'a aucun projet dans ce sens. «Nous ne pouvons pas nous développer partout en Europe, explique le dirigeant. Actuellement, nous donnons la priorité à l'Allemagne où nous estimons à 25% notre taux croissance dans les cinq prochaines années». Selon Ryanair, la France cumule trop de handicaps pour y établir des «bases», c'est-à-dire des aéroports où les appareils et les personnels sont stationnés: des syndicats puissants, un coût du travail élevé et une productivité insuffisante..

http://www.lefigaro.fr/societes/2015/01 ... auvais.php

No to Ryanair at Orly, Roissy is not out of the question, but not now. Priority is given to the development in Germany. No base in France : unions too powerful, labor too costly, productivity too low.

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Ryanair is considering working with global long-haul airlines to offer interconnecting short-haul flights around Europe as it builds up services from Stansted.
The budget carrier is opening six new routes from the Essex airport this summer – including Edinburgh and Glasgow – to give it a total of 130 which it says it more than British Airways at Heathrow.

Chief executive Michael O’Leary said that Ryanair’s conversion to long-haul feeder came as Stansted increases efforts to attract US and Middle East airlines to the capital’s third airport.
“There is nothing we won’t consider. It has to work in a manner that does not delay our turnarounds and where we don’t take responsibility for connections,” he told The Times.

“Go forward in Europe five or ten years, the low-cost carriers, most notably us and easyJet, will do a lot more feeding of the major airlines like Lufthansa, BA and Air France,” he said.
“It is inevitable because these airlines will focus on the high yielding long-haul business and say ‘here, easyJet and Ryanair, you do the short-haul feeds because we’ll lose less money if you do.”

http://www.travelweekly.co.uk/Articles/ ... riers.html

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Millar, who stepped down last month as chief financial officer after nearly 23 years at the company, where he will still have a role as a non-executive director, said he cannot see either the continent's established giants or a newcomer having the opportunities Ryanair had when he joined.
Instead the sector will be dominated by a handful of all-powerful carriers, with Lufthansa, Air France-KLM and British Airways owner IAG focusing on long-haul, conceding the short-haul market to Ryanair and its nearest rival easyJet.
And the so-called legacy carriers will ultimately have to concede that they can't retroactively transform their cost base and will therefore have to focus on lower volume, higher margin businesses.
These guys are in such a straitjacket that they don't have that opportunity. They have tried all kinds of things ... but none have made any money or reduced their cost base."

Millar said he had no regrets about another legacy -- leaving 90 percent of fuel needs hedged to March next year at $93 per barrel -- close to double the current price.
Hedging gave certainty on the cost base to investors and those setting ticket prices a year in advance.
"It's not a regret at all. We've been using this strategy since the early 90s and it's worked incredibly well for us. You can't run a long term business on short term decisions." (Reuters)

For more visit www.businessworld.ie

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Mr O'Leary said that a Ryanair sister company operating services between Europe and the United States would sell one-way economy tickets for an average of about €90.
"Our average price on short-haul (flights) across Europe is €46," he said. "We'd want to have an average price in economy on a transatlantic low-cost carrier of under €100.
But he said delivering such fares would depend on acquiring a long-haul fleet of aircraft at knock-down prices.
He said it would aim to fly between 15 major European cities and 15 major US cities.
"We'll need something in the order of 30-50 aircraft," said Mr O'Leary, adding that a long-haul service was at least five years away."We're not interested in doing something small scale."

Such fares would transform the transatlantic airline market and play havoc with carriers such as British Airways and Lufthansa.

Mr O'Leary is also eyeing Ryanair expansion to countries such as Egypt, Turkey, Israel and Russia.

Read more :
http://www.independent.ie/life/travel/t ... 33401.html

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IAG has returned with a third bid for Aer Lingus and this time the board of the Irish airline looks set to recommend acceptance of the offer to shareholders.

“I suspect the regulatory authorities will fall over themselves to encourage an IAG takeover,” Mr O’Leary said on Wednesday about the bid for Aer Lingus. O’Leary says regulators favour IAG bid for Aer Lingus

The key players in the talks have been IAG chief executive Willie Walsh and Aer Lingus chairman Colm Barrington. The other key player in the takeover is Ryanair, which has a 29.8 per cent stake in Aer Lingus.

Under a UK competition ruling it is likely to have to dispose of most of its shares in the near future, unless it prolongs a legal fight against this ruling. Ryanair has taken an appeal to the UK courts against the competition decision, but is expected to lose this. It has said that it has been looking for a buyer for the stake and its intentions will now be crucial.

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/tran ... -1.2078736

[Inquirer]

According to De Tijd, BATA (association of Belgian airlines) won a court order to force Ryanair to hand down information on the work contract details as well as individual work patterns of all staff in Brussels and Charleroi, to proof they are not predominantly employed in Belgium as required for them not to be subjected to Belgian labour laws like anybody else.

http://www.tijd.be/detail.art?a=9593191&n=3085&ckc=1

Sister newspaper L'Echo has much more details, explaining the legal approach of the case:

http://www.lecho.be/detail.art?a=9593176&n=3017&ckc=1

[sean1982]

Oh god, another stick for a horse that has been beaten to dead 200 times allready

[OO-ITR]

Oh god, another stick for a horse that has been beaten to dead 200 times allready

What? Should this news be concealed maybe? This is a forum informing people. I don't know why the truth cannot be said...

[sean1982]

Which truth?

[Stij]

Gentlemen (plural)

Please hold your horses...

Cheers,

Stij

P.S. Yes, this is a preemptive intervention! Nothing bad has been written... yet...

[Passenger]

Which truth?

Truth is that BATA (association of Belgian airlines) won an intermediate court order to force Ryanair to hand down information on the work contract... (see above).