Leeds Bradford: Ryanair Flights, New Routes & Base Updates

[scottrhino]

I’m sure in time I will benefit but £1,300 with Ryanair or £1,506 with Jet 2 to Murcia makes me sometimes wish these airlines would recognise the pressures on families trying to get away for their single holiday abroad. If they charge just a little more to these prices it could balance out a bit better. It’s cheaper than a day return to York. Just saying!!

 

[White Heather]

Somebody at Swissport hasn't been doing their job properly! And what about the Ryanair crew who are supposed to check the tickets on boarding the aircraft? Someone is going to get their hands smacked I think.

 

[Tarn Spotter]

I wonder if hearing/language an issue here, all staff seem to think all people can hear or speak english, my partner is deaf and they often ask her a question and assume because she does not answer its an affirmative, I then step in. Maybe he was asked "malta Sir", no answer so not stopped, either because he did not hear or did not understand.
I did think all boarding cards scanned so has this gone wrong after the boarding gate.
This is not an isolated gate issue, recently at leeds we were talking to a young lady in the queue in front of us, when she got to show her boarding card/passport to Jet2 staff, staff member found she was not holding her passport, but that of her sister. It turned out that her sister had already boarded using an incorrect passport.
The sisters were both married and their surnames different, so shows gate staff asleep on the job..

 

[Tarn Spotter]

Exactly WH plus there would have been 1 extra passenger on board why didn't somebody twig?

I wonder how reliable this option is.
In march we were sitting in our Jet2 seats which we had bought and paid a seat allocation fee for 15 months before, to have another couple arrive with the old fashion boarding card with the same row/seat numbers (our aircraft a standard 737).
The senior cabin member called who fetched a tablet to tell the couple thankfully 3 empty seats on the plane all row three, in 5 minutes a couple came to claim two of these seats, the couple then told to stand in the galley and wait for the aircraft to be loaded.
In the end they were found two empty seats at different parts of the plane.
I know no seat count done as i asked the senior crew member how she could say these seats free when obviously not and this was her seating plan.
I wrote to Jet2 after the flight and all I got was my seat allocation fees back, not something I asked for, I wanted to know why the system not working.
I bet the count done and when if wrong they just find a way to balance the figures, getting the plane off the ground the important issue.

 

[Pat]

They was an article in one of the sunday papers about a family on a TUI flight who boarded their flight home to Birmingham only to find their seats didnt exist. they were allowed to sit on jump seats at take off and landing but at other times had to stand up (i believe this is illegal ) The explanation given was that they was a change of aircraft

 

[yorkguy]

They was an article in one of the sunday papers about a family on a TUI flight who boarded their flight home to Birmingham only to find their seats didnt exist. they were allowed to sit on jump seats at take off and landing but at other times had to stand up (i believe this is illegal ) The explanation given was that they was a change of aircraft

In the version of this story that I read, the passengers were seated on the floor where the removed seats had been, apart from take off/landing. Generously they were offered a refund!

 

[a300boy]

It happened on one of our Bac 111 flights from Corfu ( Dan-Air ) the extra passenger hid in a toilet until the aircraft took off. The cabin crew knew they had one boarding card too many and told the captain but as the departure slot was approaching he chose to depart thinking they had got the numbers wrong. He was sacked and later committed suicide so I hope this incident does not get out of hand.

 

[ex_crew]

I was once working as a crew member on a flight to Dallas , , with B.A ....half way through the flight a pax asked why the flight time to Dulles was so long ....a whole can of worms then opened , he was going to Dulles in Washington !!

 

[TheLocalYokel]

There is a post in the BRS easyJet thread about a woman being offloaded at BRS from a flight bound for Geneva in the past couple of weeks. easyJet said the reason was that the aircraft had been switched from a 186-seat A320 to a 180-seat A320 because of a technical problem and there were 181 passengers booked to fly.

easyJet is investigating why the matter was not sorted out prior to boarding instead of all 181 being allowed to board with the subsequent unpleasant and embarrassing situation for the passenger. The local press and tv were all over the story.

 

[BarnsleyHolidays]

Ryanair Sun has so far this month produced three 'new' first visit registrations to LBA. SP-RSG operated on the 04th RYR4108/395Z Wroclaw rotation but had made its real first visit as EI-GSA on 31 May 2018. SP-RSS operated on the 13th RYR24WF/16DG Warsaw Modlin reverse rotation but had made its real first visit as EI-GJR on 07 May 2018. SP-RSN operated on the 18th RYR4108/395Z Wroclaw rotation but had made its first real visit as EI-FZY on 19 September 2017.

Last night EI-GJB made its first visit to LBA after a swap in Spain operating RYR30LY from Alicante and now appears to be based. It departed to Tenerife this morning as RYR43ZJ.

BH

 

[louis_walton]

Ryanair have began to release winter 19/20 and I really do hope they increase some frequencies or even add a new route (putting aside Brexit(as always). They haven't added much from LBA recently it would be great to see something, maybe another eastern European route as they all seem to do well. I suppose currently we can only wish, I'm sure @lbaspotter will be straight onto it when the program is released!

 

[Bigman]

I suppose that technically we could be seeing a new airline...Ryanair UK. I do wonder if the new company will effectively take over the UK base operations, so there would potentially be loads re-registered onto the UK reg. We are already seeing Ryanair Sun's creeping in on the odd Polish job.

 

[airforced]

Is Madrid a dead duck then?

 

[Tarn Spotter]

I suppose that technically we could be seeing a new airline...Ryanair UK. I do wonder if the new company will effectively take over the UK base operations, so there would potentially be loads re-registered onto the UK reg. We are already seeing Ryanair Sun's creeping in on the odd Polish job.

I doubt we will see a new company as the e.u. has made it plain that creative accounting wont work in establishing an airlines ownership.
I am a Ryanair shareholder and fighting with all non e.u. shareholders to retain our voting rights and its not impossible that the holding company will become u.k. owned (this is down to investors) and no longer a european airline.
Were already seeing a common sense situation from the e.u. in respect of a no deal brexit for airline companies and both sides want the industry to prosper.. The e.u. has rightly a glowing reputation of fudging the issue to preserve its political goals, were already seeing the rules been greatly bent, without them snapping.

At the moment all I'm bothered about Louis is that they don't drop anything.....

Last weeks financial update made for grim reading, the company is still feeling the financial effects of the rosta dispute and the strikes which have done serious damage to the bottom line.. Whilst the strikes called for in Spain this month have been cancelled, they have not gone away.
Therefore I cant see much concentration on new routes, keeping shareholders onside, especially in respect of ownership is top of the agenda.
If there is a plus side its MOL view that ticket costs will drop by 7% this year as the drop in fuel prices and the weakening dollar come in to play and he sees more competitors falling away around europe.

 

[lbaspotter]

Therefore I cant see much concentration on new routes, keeping shareholders onside, especially in respect of ownership is top of the agenda.
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Ryanair are always announcing new routes. Today they have just announced Malaga - Cardiff route whilst earlier this month has seen them announce Berlin - Lappeenrant, Tel Aviv - Athens, Tel Aviv - Bucharest, Tel Aviv - Sofia & Shannon - Frankfurt to name but a few.

 

[louis_walton]

They are that sort of airline! New routes seem to be sprouting from everywhere in the UK Manchester recently just saw a massive boost this maybe maybe why LBA has been pushed aside recently. I cannot think of the last new route for Ryanair from LBA was it Warsaw Modlin?

 

[lbaspotter]

They are that sort of airline! New routes seem to be sprouting from everywhere in the UK Manchester recently just saw a massive boost this maybe maybe why LBA has been pushed aside recently. I cannot think of the last new route for Ryanair from LBA was it Warsaw Modlin?

Last new route started by Ryanair from Leeds/Bradford was the Wroclaw service which started last winter 2017/18 season. The one before that was for 5 new routes for summer 2017 to Bratislava, Girona, Gran Canaria, Vilnius & Warsaw Modlin.

Hope that clears that one up for now.

 

[Tarn Spotter]

Ryanair are always announcing new routes. Today they have just announced Malaga - Cardiff route whilst earlier this month has seen them announce Berlin - Lappeenrant, Tel Aviv - Athens, Tel Aviv - Bucharest, Tel Aviv - Sofia & Shannon - Frankfurt to name but a few.

The figures released 10 days ago were bad, the second profit warning in 3 months, not something a public company ever wants to do, too many routes was the companies explaination for the poor figures, the rosta and strikes were the reason given at the first profit warnings.
We know many routes are only profitable with local financial support, something the e.u. has declared as illegal, its a long process between identifying a new route and its implementation, never mind how quickly a companies finances can turn bad.

 

[lbaspotter]

Ryanair are operating a few extra Leeds/Bradford - Dublin rotations over the weekend which is connected to the big "Six Nations" Rugby Union game between Ireland vs England.

Friday 01/02/18
FR6100 = LBA 13:45 - DUB 14:50 / FR6101 = DUB 15:15 - LBA 16:20
Saturday 02/02/18
FR6100 = LBA 09:15 - DUB 10:20 / FR6101 = DUB 10:45 - LBA 11:50
Sunday 03/02/18
FR6101 = DUB 14:30 - LBA 15:35 / FR6100 = LBA 16:00 - DUB 17:05

 

[Tarn Spotter]

Ryanair has today declared a loss of 20M euro for the last 3 months of 2018, its first loss since March 2014.
The company blames excess capacity in europe for a 6% drop in ticket prices.
A press release states its reached with europe, an agreement to be a european airline, based on removing the voting rights of non e.u. shareholders, news to me and many others, we have rejected the offer and I understand so has europe, this is a report in the Irish Times, wishful thinking in my view.
The e.u. rejected IAG proposals last week, and on friday the e..u., stated this issue so important it would give all airlines 7 months from an agreed date to get their share register in order.
There is a fall back to compulsory buy our shares.