Ryanair in 2017

[MrG4]

Fr opens to Ukraine

Routes from LVIV:
to Krakow, Budapest, Berlin, Wroclaw, Memmingen, Eindhoven and London.

Routes from KIEV:
to Eindhoven (3x week), London (5x week), Manchester (3x week), Stockholm (4x week).

[sn26567]

Fr opens to Ukraine

Routes from LVIV:
to Krakow, Budapest, Berlin, Wroclaw, Memmingen, Eindhoven and London.

Routes from KIEV:
to Eindhoven (3x week), London (5x week), Manchester (3x week), Stockholm (4x week).

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/ryanair ... y-ukraine/

[sdbelgium]

Frequencies to LVO:

• SXF: 2
• FMM: 2
• BUD: 2
• EIN: 2
• KRK: 3
• WRO: 2
• STN: 2

Total: 15 weekly frequencies to KBP and 15 to LVO.

http://flightlevel.be/53762/ryanair-beg ... -oekraine/

PS. Press conference in Poznan tomorrow (Thursday), probably to announce new base there from Oct onwards.

[brusselsairlinesfan]

oh no! what a piece of bad news!
and I find FR is increasing its prices recently, esp. to Portugal and Spain, after kicking out Vueling.
and now they reduce capacity, cancel Mallorca from BRU and totally Hamburg (I'm not surprised, it's always 5€ even some days before departure and when I took the flights -at the very beginning, true- they were not full).
is it because of the noise fees? what's happening?

Indeed. Strangly enough now those, who were claiming that the arrival of Ryanair in BRU would make an end to high prices of those arrogant network airlines, are completely silent now. They have to see (and undergo) that Ryanair is cutting back their offer from BRU and rising the prices now that their low cost competition has disappeared...

Given the fact your about to integrate into the low cost arm of your mother company and are already classed in the balance sheet as a point to point airline i would say "they" were not too far off. This however is not the result of FR starting BRU ops but the major expansion of CRL and the boost of FR there a few years before that

Nooooo... not again a x vs. y thing please! May we stay "gentlemen" please?
Now regarding the FR offer @ BRU, is someone able to put it in perspective with the evolution of the FR offer from/to CRL over the same period? That would be an interesting analysis...

[Inquirer]

oh no! what a piece of bad news!
and I find FR is increasing its prices recently, esp. to Portugal and Spain, after kicking out Vueling.
and now they reduce capacity, cancel Mallorca from BRU and totally Hamburg (I'm not surprised, it's always 5€ even some days before departure and when I took the flights -at the very beginning, true- they were not full).
is it because of the noise fees? what's happening?

Indeed. Strangly enough now those, who were claiming that the arrival of Ryanair in BRU would make an end to high prices of those arrogant network airlines, are completely silent now. They have to see (and undergo) that Ryanair is cutting back their offer from BRU and rising the prices now that their low cost competition has disappeared...

RyanAir is not the Messias airline some here naively think it is!?

It's a business run with a very close look at the balance sheet (as it should be), and one which has- as I have pointed out several times in the past- the typical characteristic of an extremely short return-on-investment horizon due to the fact they have to spread their resources very thinly, more so than anybody else in this industry.

Companies delivering no services and only basic commodities by definition have a fairly low resilience factor in a competitive market, and the smaller the ratio between their overall size and the number of their operations becomes, the weaker this market resilience gets at one particular local operation.

Ryanair is known for their large number of bases throughout Europe which allows them to be extremely flexible in their day-to-day maximizing of their overal revenues, but also makes them very uneasy in markets which do not immediately follow the behavioral pattern they had expected when first arriving.

That's exactly what could be seen at BRU for instance: soon after their surprise launch there, the further expansion which was widely announced by their CEO, came to a full stall (it was said to be due to 'operational reasons' at that time by Sean); then it was found out to have been timidly reversed even over summer (while commercially, summertime is the easiest period of the year!) and as from next winter the RyanAir engine seems to have been set in reverse gear outright: the 'operational reason' is thus simply a commercial one: financial underperformance on many routes.

RyanAir is in this business to make as much money as they can; they don't like it either when they have to undercut competitors too deeply for too long only to fill their seats, so they give up and quit.
(see Hamburg: from 2 daily, to 1 daily, to zero)

[Boeing767copilot]

And that with a net profit up 43% to €1,242 billion in 2016 and being the first airline in Europe to carry over 110 million pax last year.

[Inquirer]

Indeed, results one can only achieve if one sets a very aggressive aka short ROI horizon.

To illustrate this: simply divide the number of planes by the number of bases to see how 'small' their individual operations are (on average) and thus how focused they are on only the 'very best performing (mostly regional) routes', despite their overal size.

As soon as things don't turn out exactly as planned, they give up as for instance one can illustrate conclusively with the HAM-BRU route.

It's the other side of the medallion: every strength is also a weakness and vv.

It's also why they prefer opening ever new bases over growing their many minibases into much bigger ones: it's far easier to make (more) money from a completely new minibase and focus on just a handful of almost guaranteed successful routes there, than it is to successfully grow an existing small base as that means they'd need to open also routes which have a much lower local popular appeal.

[stefanel]

https://www.aviation24.be/airports/berlin/ ... -airports/

this article only mentions Tegel... not SXF.
What does "at the Berlin-Tegel airportS" mean by the way?
thanks

If they state "Berlins' airports", they mean and Tegel and Schönefeld

Can't you read? The article says "at the Berlin-Tegel airports"!!!

[convair]

this article only mentions Tegel... not SXF.
What does "at the Berlin-Tegel airportS" mean by the way?
thanks

If they state "Berlins' airports", they mean and Tegel and Schönefeld

Can't you read? The article says "at the Berlin-Tegel airports"!!!

Yesss! You found a typo. Congratulations!

[luchtzak]

If they state "Berlins' airports", they mean and Tegel and Schönefeld

Can't you read? The article says "at the Berlin-Tegel airports"!!!

Yesss! You found a typo. Congratulations!

They meant both airports https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airports_of_Berlin

The article is not 100% correct, bickering will not help

[quixoticguide]

Ryanair website is still down

[cathay belgium]

Hi,

Maintenance .., was a brief moment back online but after 5 minutes back to back...

CXB

[sn26567]

Too many people chasing the €5 fares between 07.00 and 19.00 today !

[cathay belgium]

Hi,

Or preventing them from booking them ! But too late I got one ( SXF ) LOL !

CXB

[epsilon]

Ryanair recruiting senior management for new Polish charter arm Ryanair Sun based in Warsaw.
https://careers.ryanair.com/ryanair-sun/

[sn26567]

Ryanair recruiting senior management for new Polish charter arm Ryanair Sun based in Warsaw.
https://careers.ryanair.com/ryanair-sun/

Ryanair to establish new standalone charter unit "Ryanair Sun"

Ryanair (FR, Dublin Int'l) is planning to establish a new standalone carrier in Poland to cater to the charter market.

Recruitment adverts show Ryanair Sun is looking to commence operations in summer 2018 using a fleet of five B737-800s initially. It will be based out of Warsaw - presumably Warsaw Modlin.

"Ryanair Sun will deliver the best-in-class charter services, at the lowest cost to Polish tour operators, and offer great value for customers flying to Poland’s favourite holiday destinations," the adverts said.

Once operational, Ryanair Sun will compete with other Polish charter carriers including Enter Air, Small Planet Airlines Polska, and Travel Service Polska.

Source: ch-aviation

[epsilon]

I doubt it will be Modlin due to terminal capacity issues.

[epsilon]

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

As we expand the Ryanair route network, customers will for the first time be able to book connecting Ryanair flights on the Ryanair.com website, with a feeder flight service with other airlines following later this year - See more at: http://corporate.ryanair.com/news/news/ ... oCmXz.dpuf

[sn26567]

As we expand the Ryanair route network, customers will for the first time be able to book connecting Ryanair flights on the Ryanair.com website, with a feeder flight service with other airlines following later this year

This is indeed BIG news. A revolution of a company that was strictly point-to-point.

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/ryanair ... irst-time/

I have thus asked Ryanair when this new "service" would start. Ryanair hopes to introduce it by the end of the summer or the start of the winter season. But a test phase will be implemented at Rome FCO already during the summer.

[Passenger]

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

As we expand the Ryanair route network, customers will for the first time be able to book connecting Ryanair flights on the Ryanair.com website, with a feeder flight service with other airlines following later this year - See more at: http://corporate.ryanair.com/news/news/ ... oCmXz.dpuf

This is indeed BIG news. A revolution of a company that was strictly point-to-point. https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/ryanair ... irst-time/
I have thus asked Ryanair when this new "service" would start. Ryanair hopes to introduce it by the end of the summer or the start of the winter season. But a test phase will be implemented at Rome FCO already during the summer.

I don't believe this. The reason why they done accept connecting flights, is because of the European legislation regarding delayed and cancelled flights. Today, Ryanair is avoiding all costs when a FR-passenger misses his/her connection to another FR-flight, when the delay is within EU-261/2004 limits. When Ryanair accepts multi-flight tickets, they will be held responsible when a connection goes wrong, no matter the reason for the missed conection. And even when the delay is within EU-261/2004 limits. I wonder what they will impose as Minimum Connecting Time: 4 hours?

Same applies for their song about their feeder flights. Those negociations are ongoing for years now, and they haven't found one carrier yet, desperate enough to accept Ryanairs' conditions: "in case of a delay, no costs for Ryanair". The very high load factor (95%-100%) isn't helping Ryanair neither as feeder. Just one example: when a Norwegian flight from the U.S. arrives 3 hours late, the connection is gone. On which flight will Ryanair then accommodate the delayed passengers? Next flights are all full.