Ryanair

[EGCC_MAN]

Now here's an oddity. The dropdown list of countries served on the Ryanair website shows 15 nations in the Americas, including Bolivia, Colombia, Honduras, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela. All very strange. Apparently, it relates to an arrangement to promote ticket sales on Air Europa's long-haul programme out of Spain.

 

[Land23R]

I see Ryanair are cancelling 40-50 flights a day (less than 2% of their network operations they claim) over the next 6 weeks to improve punctuality!

Looking at our arrivals board, it seems MAN is not immune with the 12.00 arrival from Faro cancelled and also an afternoon flight from Alicante.

BHX has an Alicante cancelled and STN has 7 arrivals shown as cancelled up to the 17.35 from Aarhus.
Several cancellations at DUB too.

Given the apparently short notice, I suspect Ryanair will have a lot of unhappy pax.

 

[ethanegcc]

Just been in Thomas Cook travel agents Congleton. Already rebooking 5 different itenaries from RYR cancelled services out of MAN in the next couple of weeks.

 

[Jerry]

Just been in Thomas Cook travel agents Congleton. Already rebooking 5 different itenaries from RYR cancelled services out of MAN in the next couple of weeks.

I didn't know Ryanair allowed the likes of Thomas Cook to book holidays using their flights!

 

[ethanegcc]

Just flight only itineraries @Jerry

 

[Land23R]

According to the list of cancellations in the M.E.N. MAN will be losing 19 departures a week over the winter. If it's over 4 months, it means 126,000 less seats. Over the full winter period Nov-March it would be 158,000 seats approx.
This is fairly drastic but 2 points:
Ryanair had stated they were reducing planned growth over the winter from 9% to 4%. My initial reaction is that MAN's reduction represents more than that.

More importantly, how does their reduced MAN program now compare with winter 2016/17?

Is there sufficient demand for other carriers to consider increasing flights if a/c available?

 

[Land23R]

Just an extra point - I notice the cancellations are predominantly "city" routes such as Hamburg, Nurnberg, Lisbon, Brussels etc.
If the decision is a reflection of over capacity on these routes, it's perhaps very doubtful that others will step in, or for that matter whether Ryanair will reintroduce the original frequencies subsequently.

 

[Dobbo]

I'm sure Ryanair will look to cut the least profitable (i.e. Cheapest) routes first.

If they are offering fares to stimulate demand, perhaps others won't step in. However, this will not stop the same people seeking flights elsewhere if they've wound a city break into their routine...

 

[Land23R]

And that was my concern. Ryanair have introduced a number of city routes from MAN in the last year or so - HAM, NUR, & FRA in Germany, for example, at daily or 6 x weekly frequencies. The cancellations surely suggest over capacity, low fares and therefore less successful & profitable routes which therefore bear the brunt of the cuts. Explainable, but it still doesn't make it any better news for MAN.

If the M.E.N. list was complete, I didn't spot much if anything for LPL, LBA or BHX.

 

[User001]

Ryanair have added some flights during August and Sept, including (but not limited to):

a 3rd daily PMI on Thu, making 15 weekly overall.

A 3rd daily ALC on Mon and Fri making 16 weekly overall.

 

[User001]

There are now several one stop flights available via Bergamo. All are in Italy, barring Athens. Routes include Pescaria, Bari and Palermo.

 

[Land23R]

As we know, Ryanair operate a significant number of MAN flights with non-based a/c. I don't know whether this morning is typical but by 09.30 we will have had 4 arrivals from other bases in mainland Europe. Before 07.30 there was the usual CRL and the new CGN flight. Now there is the AGP & SXF on approach. These are after their early departure wave so help to maximise use of the very restricted space in T3.

There is also of course a DUB flight which arrives any time between 07.00 and 07.30.

It will be interesting to see the s18 schedules if RYR are contained in T3 and we get the expected additional based a/c.

 

[User001]

Seville going 3 weekly next summer.

Flights on Mon/Wed/Fri. Also a week in Feb that has 4 flights listed, I assume Champions league related.

 

[User001]

Press release in Spanish states that MAN-ALC will be 19 weekly next summer.

At present, only 16 weekly bookable so assume the other 3 weekly flights will come off the back of Manchester based expansion?

 

[Scottie Dog]

Ryanair to start Belfast International to Manchester. Effective 25th March 2018 as FR5881/FR5882. Provisional times arrive 1530 and depart 1600. All times are Zulu time.

 

[EGCC_MAN]

That appears to be a BFS-based aircraft looking at those timings? So presumably any routes derived from placing further aircraft at MAN will be in addition to this. Fingers crossed those proposed three additional MAN-based B738's do come through in the end.

 

[Scottie Dog]

Yes, this is a BFS based aircraft.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

https://corporate.ryanair.com/news/...investment-with-3-new-aircraft-at-manchester/

Three new aircraft and ten new routes at MAN from June this year.

 

[EGCC_MAN]

Just beat me to it! If EasyJet do come good with 4 or more extra based in their forthcoming announcement (Feb 2nd?), MAN will have a good chance of ending 2018 in positive territory. If either Ryanair or EasyJet hadn't (don't?) provide growth on this scale, MAN would risk falling short of pre-Monarch collapse throughput totals.

 

[Scottie Dog]

Thus comes true the fortune-telling by our friend User001.......