I just found the story on luchtvaartnieuws.nl so I'll answer my own questions.RoMax wrote:I can't read the whole article, but when are they planning these flights? Because Lelystad will expand the runway and after that add 'real' terminal facilities, it's intended to become a secondary airport for Amsterdam (with the intention to keep as much point-to-point leisure traffic in Lelystad to relieve AMS for hub traffic). With FR hinting at a base at AMS but complaining at the high prices, it could be logical for them to go to Lelystad once it opens as a real commercial airport (from the current users of AMS no one actually wants to move for obvious reasons).MrG4 wrote:Ryanair will fly from Lelystad airport.
It is the biggest general aviation airport in the Netherlands and the runway is 1250mt long.
http://fd.nl/ondernemen/1088585/ryanair ... f-lelystad
FR wants to serve both AMS and Lelystad, from AMS they want to serve business destinations (naming London, Dublin but also e.g. routes to Eastern Europe) while leisure destinations will be served from Lelystad. It will take until 2018 before they can serve Lelystad (because the airport is not ready for these operations yet), but they don't want to wait that long before starting to serve the Amsterdam-region, so they'll launch AMS first. Not this year, it's not such a high priority (and at AMS they still face the problem of too high fees and slot restrictions of the H pier (LCC) which they want to use. So 2016 is more probable.
Meanwhile they confirm their focus at Eindhoven, where they expect 2 million pax this year (+7% compared to 2014). One extra based aircraft this year (up to 3) and 5 new destinations (up to 36). Eindhoven will see 145 weekly FR flights this summer.