Ryanair in 2016

[sn26567]

No expansion to OST/EBOS thats 100% sure.
EBOS management doesn't want Ryanair at their airport if you read the recent twitter replies on Mr Buelens account.

Never say never. I asked the question of OST to Michael O'Leary himself earlier this year, and he said he was speaking with OST, like with many other airports, but he could not expand there at that moment by lack of planes.

[flymd11]

No expansion to OST/EBOS thats 100% sure.
EBOS management doesn't want Ryanair at their airport if you read the recent twitter replies on Mr Buelens account.

Do you have a link to this Twitter account?

[sn26567]

EBOS management doesn't want Ryanair at their airport if you read the recent twitter replies on Mr Buelens account.

Do you have a link to this Twitter account?

@buelens_m

[sn26567]

Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary says the carrier may be forced create a new subsidiary to operate UK domestic flights if a “hard Brexit” comes to pass. The subsidiary, of which Ryanair would be able to own a maximum of 49.9%, would operate routes from London to Belfast, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

[sn26567]

As always, quick to jump on the ball:

[ostair]

No expansion to OST/EBOS thats 100% sure.
EBOS management doesn't want Ryanair at their airport if you read the recent twitter replies on Mr Buelens account.

Never say never. I asked the question of OST to Michael O'Leary himself earlier this year, and he said he was speaking with OST, like with many other airports, but he could not expand there at that moment by lack of planes.

Seems Mr B backs off and knows he has to accept Ryanair when and if they want to fly from EBOS.

[sn26567]

EU orders Ryanair (and TUIfly) to repay illegal Austrian airport aid

European Union state aid regulators have ordered Irish budget airline Ryanair and TUI's German carrier TUIfly to repay millions of euros in illegal aid given by an Austrian airport.

Certain airport services and marketing agreements between the operator of Klagenfurt airport in southern Austria and Ryanair, TUIfly and HLX - which was merged with Hapagfly in 2007 to create TUIfly - gave the carriers an undue advantage, the European Commision said on Friday (today, 11 November).

The Commission said it estimated the illegal aid to Ryanair at around 2 million euros, to TUIfly at 1.1 million and to HLX at 9.6 million. The companies will have to repay the money to Austria.

Ryanair said it would fight the EU ruling.

TUI's German arm said it would examine the EU’s reasoning once it had received it and would then decide on the next steps.

Source: Reuters

[Poiu]

Strange that nobody mentioned the excellent H1 figures from FR:

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

[Passenger]

EU orders Ryanair (and TUIfly) to repay illegal Austrian airport aid

European Union state aid regulators have ordered Irish budget airline Ryanair and TUI's German carrier TUIfly to repay millions of euros in illegal aid given by an Austrian airport.

Certain airport services and marketing agreements between the operator of Klagenfurt airport in southern Austria and Ryanair, TUIfly and HLX - which was merged with Hapagfly in 2007 to create TUIfly - gave the carriers an undue advantage, the European Commision said on Friday (today, 11 November).

The Commission said it estimated the illegal aid to Ryanair at around 2 million euros, to TUIfly at 1.1 million and to HLX at 9.6 million. The companies will have to repay the money to Austria.

Ryanair said it would fight the EU ruling.

TUI's German arm said it would examine the EU’s reasoning once it had received it and would then decide on the next steps.

Source: Reuters

Official press release about this Klagenfurt Airport file:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-3663_en.htm

General EU file:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-14-498_en.htm

[sn26567]

Strange that nobody mentioned the excellent H1 figures from FR:

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

Nobody? It was reported on Luchtzak four days ago. Don't forget to read the homepage every day!

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/ryanair ... wer-fares/

[sn26567]

Has Ryanair really made it to the Oxford Dictionary or is it merely a MOL marketing gimmick?

[sn26567]

The latest great idea of MOL: All Ryanair flights free within 5 to 10 years. They would be paid for by sharing the profits of the duty free purchases between the airlines and the shop operators. Realistic?

[brabel]

The latest great idea of MOL: All Ryanair flights free within 5 to 10 years. They would be paid for by sharing the profits of the duty free purchases between the airlines and the shop operators. Realistic?

He repeats himself.
According to luchtvaartnieuws, he said the same thing in 2005...
By then he thought it would be free in about ten years as well (being 2015)
Now he adds another 10.

[sn26567]

Analysis by anna.aero shows that Ryanair has overtaken Air Malta to become Malta's number one carrier with a 32% market share.

https://t.co/KdXab5xgeV

[MrG4]

Tomorrow Napoli is going to be a base.
2 aircrafts based, 17 destinations: BRE(x2),CPH(x3),GDN(x2),EMA(x3),EIN(x2),HHN(x2),KUN(x2),LIS(x3),MAD(x2),MAN(x3),BGY(3daily),SVQ(x2), NYO(x2) ,TLS(x2),TSF(2daily),VLC(x2),WMI(x2)

[sn26567]

Tomorrow Napoli is going to be a base.
2 aircrafts based, 17 destinations: BRE(x2),CPH(x3),GDN(x2),EMA(x3),EIN(x2),HHN(x2),KUN(x2),LIS(x3),MAD(x2),MAN(x3),BGY(3daily),SVQ(x2), NYO(x2) ,TLS(x2),TSF(2daily),VLC(x2),WMI(x2)

There will be 3 aircraft based.

[JAF737]

The latest great idea of MOL: All Ryanair flights free within 5 to 10 years. They would be paid for by sharing the profits of the duty free purchases between the airlines and the shop operators. Realistic?

What do you actually find "great" in this idea?

[MrG4]

Tomorrow Napoli is going to be a base.
2 aircrafts based, 17 destinations: BRE(x2),CPH(x3),GDN(x2),EMA(x3),EIN(x2),HHN(x2),KUN(x2),LIS(x3),MAD(x2),MAN(x3),BGY(3daily),SVQ(x2), NYO(x2) ,TLS(x2),TSF(2daily),VLC(x2),WMI(x2)

There will be 3 aircraft based.

From April-May just 2 aircrafts based: Nap-Tsf 6:30 am, Nap-Lis 6:40 am.

The third from July, but new destinations are still unknown; belgian destinations might be an option.
Ein-Nap is replacing Hv, isn't it? The napoletan community of Antwerp should be happy

[sn26567]

The latest great idea of MOL: All Ryanair flights free within 5 to 10 years. They would be paid for by sharing the profits of the duty free purchases between the airlines and the shop operators. Realistic?

What do you actually find "great" in this idea?

Allow me to be ironic

[MD-11forever]

Ryanair had the most people on their aircraft of any European airline in 2016. It was larger than the Lufthansa Group (excluding Brussels Airlines, with Brussels Airlines included, it would have been a close call)

Ryanair, Norwegian Topple European Aviation’s Old Order
(Bloomberg) --
Aggressive growth strategies at Europe’s leading discount carriers are poised to overthrow the region’s established airline order. Ryanair Holdings Plc, already Europe’s top low-cost operator, boosted its passenger tally 15 percent to 117 million in 2016, a figure that’s set to give it the biggest annual tally of any carrier in the region, ahead of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, which reports numbers next week.
Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA attracted 29.3 million passengers last year, it said Thursday, a 14 percent increase that’s likely to put it ahead of SAS AB’s Scandinavian Airlines for the first time. SAS also posts figures next week. And Wizz Air Holdings, the No. 1 no-frills carrier in Eastern Europe, grew numbers 19 percent to 23 million as it added more destinations in the west of the continent.

Discount specialists are piling on passengers using bargain-basement pricing even as a sluggish European economy and the threat of terror attacks acts as a brake on demand. With fares sliding, Lufthansa, Air France-KLM Group and British Airways owner IAG SA have responded by establishing discount units of their own, though they’ve generally struggled to compete with the likes of Ryanair and EasyJet Plc amid opposition to cost cuts from their own staff.

Lufthansa, which attracted 108 million passengers in 2015, the most in Europe, is under particular pressure as Ryanair sharpens its focus on Germany. The group, also including Austrian Airlines and Swiss, probably finished 2016 with about 110 million customers, based on reported figures through November and projections for December, about 7 million behind its Irish rival. From January, Lufthansa figures will be boosted by the inclusion of customers of Brussels Airlines, of which it is taking full control after previously holding a minority stake. The Belgian carrier attracted 7.5 million passengers in 2015.

The race between SAS and Norwegian, whose maverick strategy includes low-cost long-haul services, was probably closer. Still, the tri-national carrier, which had a lead of 1.4 million passengers in 2015, would have to have attracted 3 million in December alone to stave off the discount operator’s challenge, or two-thirds more than the monthly tally a year earlier.

Ryanair Chief Executive Michael O’Leary told Bloomberg Television on Nov. 7 that his company was “doing very well in tough times as people trade down to lower fares.” The carrier has raised its passenger target to more than 200 million customers by 2024, up from the previously forecast 180 million.

To be sure, Air France-KLM, IAG and Lufthansa remain Europe’s top three carriers by traffic, a measure of passengers multiplied by the distance flown that’s the industry’s standard gauge for airline rankings. Traffic at discount operators is generally much lower since -- Norwegian aside -- they specialize in short-haul routes where quick turnarounds maximize aircraft utilization and passengers don’t require much in the way of inflight service.