Ryanair

[Huddy]

Hull CityFan, must be terribly British and correct you, those arent W Patterns.

An example of a W pattern would be (real life example from this summer) EDI - PRG - LBA - PRG - EDI.

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

Hull CityFan, must be terribly British and correct you, those arent W Patterns.

An example of a W pattern would be (real life example from this summer) EDI - PRG - LBA - PRG - EDI.

I think DUB depending on the day is W pattern. STN-DUB-LBA-DUB-STN or EDI-DUB-LBA-DUB-EDI. Especially in summer. (well winter DUB most if not all are LBA based)

 

[User0001]

Great news about the 3rd based plane next Summer and the extra routes. Unfortunately FR have always wanted to get into manchester as there are obviously rich pickings to be had but LBIA can still be a major FR hub this side of the pennines for the whole of Yorkshire, lincolnshire and the north east.

We can also hope that our routes dont duplicate manchester's totally and therefore we will attract passengers wanting the lowest fares from the north west too.

It looks as though the airport route team and management are really trying to encourage more routes from the airport even in these difficult times, which is to be commended. They realise there really is a lot of untapped potential here at LBIA.

Now we really need to see terminal and apron developments on a not small scale to cement and drive this route growth, which is why i am waiting bated breath for the new owner's airport MASTERPLAN REVIEW but that is for a different thread.

 

[Bigman]

I am starting to wonder if we might get the Knock service back. The only reason I say that is that the dried plum brigade are talking of an announcement due of new routes from Knock. The strange thing though is that Knock remains on both the drop down list and route map for LBA over a month since it was canned.

 

[User0001]

Knock and Nantes will be dropped.

Riga, Kaunus, Tenerife, Kos, Bergamo, Chania, Corfu, Dinard will be new

In addition, Malaga, Dublin and Krakow look set to get an extra weekly service. Palma is showing as 5 x weekly as well, so that might represent an extra service compared to this summer (was it 4 x weekly this summer?)

 

[lbaspotter]

Ryanair – LBA programme for Summer 2012 Schedule

Alicante = Not on sale yet, Expected to 1x daily/7x weekly
Barcelona = Remains 3x weekly, Wed, Fri & Sun
Corfu = New route 1x weekly, Thu
Crete-Chania = New route - 1x weekly, Sat
Dinard = New route - 2x weekly, Tue & Sat
Dublin = Increases from 13x weekly to 2x daily/14x weekly
Dusseldorf-Weeze = Remains 3x weekly, Mon/Wed & Sun
Faro = Remains 5x weekly, Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat & Sun
Fuerteventura = Remains 2x weekly, Mon & Fri
Gdansk = Remains 2x weekly, Mon & Fri
Ibiza = Remains 2x weekly, Tue & Sat
Kaunas = New route for summer - 2x weekly, Wed & Sat
Knock-Ireland West = Route Dropped, Was 3x weekly summer 2011
Kos = New route - 1x weekly, Wed
Krakow = Increases from 3x weekly to 4x weekly, Mon, Tue, Thu & Sun
Lanzarote-Arrecife = Remains 2x weekly, Tue & Sat
Limoges = Remains - 2x weekly, Wed & Sun
Malaga = Increases from 6x weekly to 1 daily/7x weekly
Malta-Luqa = Remains 2x weekly, Thu & Sun
Milan-Bergamo = New route - 2x weekly, Mon & Fri
Montpellier = Remains 2x weekly, Wed & Sun
Murcia = Remains 3x weekly. Mon, Wed & Fri
Nantes = Route Dropped - Was 2x weekly summer 2011
Palma = Increases from 4x weekly to 5x weekly, Tue, Wed, Thu, Sat & Sun
Pisa-Florence = Decreases from 3x weekly 2x weekly, Tue & Sat
Riga = New route for summer - 2x weekly, Wed & Sat
Tenerife-South = New route - 2x weekly. Tue & Sat
Venice-Treviso = Remains 3x weekly, Tue/Thu & Sat

 

[BigMac]

Why is the Alicante flight the only one that is not in sale yet? You don't think it will be dropped do you?

 

[lbaspotter]

I think you may find that there is quite a few ryanairs Alicante routes that are not on sale yet.

They still haven't sorted out a deal yet regarding Aircraft parking. As they don't want to use the Air Bridges.

 

[lbaspotter]

Just a little update.

Ryanair are no longer using Venice Marco Polo airport. They have switch all services from Leeds back into Venice-Treviso airport as from yesterday Thursday, December 8th 2011.

 

[wawkrk]

Congratulations to the Ryanair flightdeck crew who landed the Thursday lunchtime flight from KRK in conditions that were just horrendous. The touchdown was amazing after a buffeting sideways approach.
Well done gentlemen.

 

[lbaspotter]

Hi

I hear that the ryanair Leeds-Alicante route for next summer season will be released on sale tomorrow and will now be operated by Leeds based aircraft instead of been operated by non based aircraft. It also looks like service is been reduced in frequency from been a daily operation last summer back to been either 3/4 weekly service only.

Meanwhile to compensate the drop in frequency I hear that ryanair may add extra flights from Leeds to nearby Murcia. The Leeds to Murcia route was on sale at 3x weekly earlier this afternoon, But it was taken off sale this evening along with most other ryanair UK routes to Murcia.

Off Topic
It also looks like Ryanair may have dropped its Humberside-Alicante service for next summer.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I hear that the ryanair Leeds-Alicante route for next summer season will be released on sale tomorrow and will now be operated by Leeds based aircraft instead of been operated by non based aircraft. It also looks like service is been reduced in frequency from been a daily operation last summer back to been either 3/4 weekly service only.

Meanwhile to compensate the drop in frequency I hear that ryanair may add extra flights from Leeds to nearby Murcia. The Leeds to Murcia route was on sale at 3x weekly earlier this afternoon, But it was taken off sale this evening along with most other ryanair UK routes to Murcia.

I've heard rumours of the same sort of arrangement re Alicante and Murcia for some other airports.

Seems Ryanair haven't resolved their differences with the Alicante management re air bridges.

Interesting link re ALC and routes axed/reduced

http://www.simplynetworking.es/news-900 ... anair.html

 

[lbia]

I don't know how successful that would be for Ryanair. San Javier (and soon Corvera) really serve the Murcian region for second homes and is used as a commuter service for most. Alicante also does this, but on a much smaller scale and is primarily used to access the northern Costa Blanca.

Looking at the demographics of Ryanair's flights to Alicante - cutting Alicante flights and increasing Murcia flights will simply loose them money. Lets put it this way, 90% of Ryanair's Alicante passengers are going to Benidorm, simple as. Putting on more flights to Murcia will not work, Murcia is useless for serving Benidorm. Hence why Ryanair do not fly to Murcia in winter from most airports and Jet2 only fly twice a week. It simply is not a mass market.

Ryanair's spat with Alicante is becoming a running joke now, it is mainly for the media coverage and yet again an excuse to cut routes that really do not make them much money. Lets be honest, if Ryanair were REALLY making THAT much money from these routes, the last thing they would do is cut them for no reason. Its amazing how they keep getting away with what they do, lets face it, every single large hub they fly into... Dublin, Stansted, Girona, Manchester .... etc etc they have a spat with because either the subsidies, funding or whatever dry up once the carrot has been dangled. It would be interesting to see what prices they would have to charge to make a profit if all their funding stopped. Some how I think they would make BA look low cost.

 

[lbaspotter]

Ryanair now have the Leeds - Alicante route back on sale. It looks as the service has been reduced from a daily operation last summer to a 4x weekly service next summer operating on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays & Sundays. All flights will be operated by Alicante based aircraft arriving LBA at 08:35 and then departing back out at 09:00

The Leeds to Murcia route was showing 3x weekly operated by Leeds based aircraft but it has since been taken off sale. It wouldn't surprise me now to see this service been increased by an extra couple of weekly rotations.

 

[lbaspotter]

Over the next couple off weeks due to Christmas and New Year's ryanair are running extra flights to Gdansk on a Tuesdays and Krakow on Mondays using the Leeds based aircraft that would otherwise be doing nowt sat around.

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

Flight to riga on xmas day. I hope it's either a MISTAKE on LBIA'S part, or that the crew operating this get something for doing it (triple pay (sector/hourly), higher commision etc). Certainly would point blank refuse to do it if i wasn't getting something extra.

 

[tleeds]

I can confirm it is a mistake. No flights are bookable on the Ryanair website anyway and I do believe that LBA is expecting no flights that day.

 

[Huddy]

I Believe thats actually 0710 on Boxing Day seems as the live departures page doesnt differentiate between days. :good:

 

[lbia]

Do we know what's happening with the Murcia route?

This was one of Jet2's core markets in Spain but due to the dire property Market flight have been cut year on year. (was daily 757 service a few years ago, now 6 x 737 service) does anyone know if Ryanair will up the MJV flights to compensate for the near 50% ALC reduction?

 

[lbaspotter]

Here's an update on what Ryanair currently have planned for LBA next summer. As we all know this scheduled could change quite a bit before March 22nd so don't read to much into it.

Murcia is not currently on sale and the route has not been dropped. These are the timings that I hadbefore they were removed from sale 2 weeks ago.

Mondays
Aircraft 1
06:30-08:50 – Dublin
09:15-14:15 – Gdansk
15:15-20:50 – Krakow
Aircraft 2
06:45-11:50 – Milan (Bergamo)
12:15-16:50 – Montpellier
17:50-00:05 – Murcia
Aircraft 3
07:10-16:30 – Fuerteventura
17:20-23:55 – Malaga
Non Based
08:35-09:00 – Alicante
13:50-14:15 – Dusseldorf (Weeze)
16:20-16:45 – Faro
18:55-19:20 – Dublin

Tuesdays
Aircraft 1
06:30-08:50 – Dublin
09:15-15:10 – Palma (Mallorca)
16:00-21:35 – Krakow
Aircraft 2
06:30-16:05 – Tenerife (South)
16:45-22:45 – Ibiza
Aircraft 3
06:40-11:45 – Venice (Treviso)
12:10-15:55 – Dinard
17:20-23:55 – Malaga
Non Based
11:30-11:55 – Arrecife (Lanzarote)
17:45-18:10 – Pisa (Florence)
18:55-19:20 – Dublin

Wednesdays
Aircraft 1
06:30-08:50 – Dublin
09:15-15:10 – Palma (Mallorca)
17:20-23:55 – Malaga
Aircraft 3
06:50-10:45 – Limoges
11:10-17:00 – Kaunas
17:50-00:05 – Murcia
Aircraft 3
08:05-13:55 – Riga
14:45-23:45 – Kos
Non Based
08:35-09:00 – Alicante
13:50-14:15 – Dusseldorf (Weeze)
14:25-14:50 – Barcelona
16:20-16:45 – Faro
18:55-19:20 – Dublin

Thursday
Aircraft 1
06:30-08:50 – Dublin
09:15-15:10 – Palma (Mallorca)
16:00-21:35 – Krakow
Aircraft 2
06:30-11:35 – Venice (Treviso)
12:00-16:35 – Montpellier
17:35-00:10 – Malaga
Aircraft 3
07:00-14:25 – Corfu
16:10-23:40 – Malta (Luqa)
Non Based
18:55-19:20 – Dublin

Friday
Aircraft 1
06:30-08:50 – Dublin
12:10-17:40 – Gdansk
---spare gap---
Aircraft 2
06:45-11:50 – Milan (Bergamo)
---spare gap---
17:50-00:05 – Murcia
Aircraft 3
07:10-16:30 – Fuerteventura
17:20-23:55 – Malaga
Non Based
08:35-09:00 – Alicante
09:35-10:15 – Barcelona
13:50-14:15 – Dusseldorf (Weeze)
16:20-16:45 – Faro
18:55-19:20 – Dublin

Saturday
Aircraft 1
06:30-16:05 – Tenerife (South)
16:45-22:45 – Ibiza
Aircraft 2
06:40-11:45 – Venice (Treviso)
12:10-15:55 – Dinard
16:55-22:50 – Palma (Mallorca)
Aircraft 3
07:00-13:35 – Malaga
14:25-22:20 – Chania (Crete)
Non Based
07:40-08:05 – Dublin
11:30-11:55 – Arrecife (Lanzarote)
11:25-12:00 – Faro
17:55-18:20 – Pisa (Florence)
18:25-18:50 – Kaunas
18:55-19:20 – Dublin

Sunday
Aircraft 1
07:10-11:05 – Limoges
11:30-17:05 – Krakow
---spare gap---
Aircraft 2
09:15-15:10 – Palma (Mallorca)
16:10-23:40 – Malta (Luqa)
Aircraft 3
09:55-16:30 – Malaga
17:20-23:10 – Riga
Non Based
08:35-09:00 – Alicante
14:35-15:00 – Barcelona
15:10-15:35 – Dublin
16:20-16:45 – Faro
18:55-19:20 – Dublin