Ryanair

[TheLocalYokel]

Could they be taking Italian rugby fans home after the international in Cardiff. Beneton Treviso is one of the teams in the Pro14 competition.

Possible I suppose. Not important in the world scheme of things but out of nosiness I'd like to know why Treviso was used today instead of Marco Polo, especially when easyJet operated its own MP flight today. Ryanair mght have been using Treviso for a few days and not just on Sunday. If they have I hadn't noticed.

 

[Marko1]

Marco Polo airport was closed from 8:30 am to midday for a world war 2 bomb defusion. The easyJet flight was rescheduled I understand to an earlier timing.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Marco Polo airport was closed from 8:30 am to midday for a world war 2 bomb defusion. The easyJet flight was rescheduled I understand to an earlier timing.

Ah, thank you for that Marko. I checked to see if the Italians had planned industrial action on that day without finding anything online. The strange thing is that Ryanair had Treviso in their booking engine for that day. Very quick taction for the information of any late bookers.

 

[Tinkerman]

EI-EKD incurred a very hard landing on 09 last night returning from BUD. Aircraft hasn’t flown since.

 

[BRSregular]

EI-EKD incurred a very hard landing on 09 last night returning from BUD. Aircraft hasn’t flown since.

Has it affected any flights today?

 

[TheLocalYokel]

EI-EKD incurred a very hard landing on 09 last night returning from BUD. Aircraft hasn’t flown since.

It was definitely landing on 09 was it? The forecast showed winds from the west (southwest-west-northwest) which has been the pattern for the past few days in the Bristol area. I understand that 09 can be the trickier of the two runways and was the subject of a hard landing by a Thomson B767 in 2010 that caused substantial damage to the airframe following which the AAIB reported a disproportioinate number of previous heavy landings by B767s. I've not read of any serious hard landings by narrow bodied aircraft whether on 09 or 27, nor for that matter with TUI's B787s that regularly use the airport.

Timings suggest the aircraft was a BRS-based aircraft presumably with a BRS-based crew. The 2010 B767 incident involved a crew from another base that hadn't operated regularly into BRS.

Has it affected any flights today?

Doesn't appear so. However, Tuesday in January/early February is extremely quiet with, according to the BRS website departure page, only 51 airline departures (excluding the Airbus and BAE shuttles and any one-off departures) of which only eight were with Ryanair.

 

[Marko1]

Ryanair have dropped the planned Saturday flight to girona. The route remains 6 weekly peak summer

 

[Marko1]

Warsaw also reduces to three weekly from July.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Ryanair have dropped the planned Saturday flight to girona. The route remains 6 weekly peak summer

GRO has been 5 or 6 weekly for several summers. The difference in summer 2020 is that May is only 2 x weekly and June 4 x weekly. At one time of course it looked as if GRO wasn't going to operate at all.

Warsaw also reduces to three weekly from July.

They mess with the frequency almost from summer to summer. Last summer it was 4 x weekly all summer but in summer 2018 it dropped to 3 x weekly from July and in summer 2016 it was 3 x weekly all summer having been 4 x weekly in summer 2017.

 

[Marko1]

GRO has been 5 or 6 weekly for several summers. The difference in summer 2020 is that May is only 2 x weekly and June 4 x weekly. At one time of course it looked as if GRO wasn't going to operate at all.


They mess with the frequency almost from summer to summer. Last summer it was 4 x weekly all summer but in summer 2018 it dropped to 3 x weekly from July and in summer 2016 it was 3 x weekly all summer having been 4 x weekly in summer 2017.

the difference this time is that the 4 th weekly service does not resume after August as in previous years

 

[TheLocalYokel]

the difference this time is that the 4 th weekly service does not resume after August as in previous years

And yet they are still showing Brest at 2 x weekly right through the summer. I suppose that's more to do with aircrat rostering given that Brest is little more than a short hop.

I've just submitted a post in the Master Plan thread quoting a report that suggests that Ryanair's share of flights and passenger numbers will increase into the first part of the 2020s and easyJet's decrease.

 

[Severn]

EI-EKD incurred a very hard landing on 09 last night returning from BUD. Aircraft hasn’t flown since.

EI-EKD has been on the ground since yesterday (Monday 3rd Feb) after arriving from BUD, however it landed on 27, not 09.

Winter Tuesdays and Wednesdays only require two based aircraft to operate the BRS schedule so it had no need to operate today (and unsurprisingly no knock on effect to todays departures).

Thursdays require three aircraft and Friday-Sunday require four, so we’ll have to wait and see whether another aircraft is bought in before Friday or whether this aircraft will be good to go after a check if it was involved in a hard landing.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

EI-EKD has been on the ground since yesterday (Monday 3rd Feb) after arriving from BUD, however it landed on 27, not 09.

Winter Tuesdays and Wednesdays only require two based aircraft to operate the BRS schedule so it had no need to operate today (and unsurprisingly no knock on effect to todays departures).

Thursdays require three aircraft and Friday-Sunday require four, so we’ll have to wait and see whether another aircraft is bought in before Friday or whether this aircraft will be good to go after a check if it was involved in a hard landing.

Thanks for clearing that up Severn. I wondered about 09 which is why I asked the original informant.

 

[Severn]

The flights to WMI and GRO have been reduced by 1x flight per week in the peak-summer. DUB has also decreased by 2x flights per week (now only 18x departures pw).
The flights lost were operated by WMI, GRO and DUB based aircraft respectively and therefore the BRS base remains at 4x aircraft fully utilised (well near enough!).

Currently the peak summer 2020 schedule shows 133x departures per week, 1x more than in 2019.

 

[Marko1]

Odd to see a reduction in Dublin on a Monday where I would have thought it be in high demand. Opportunity for aer lingus ?

 

[TheLocalYokel]

The flights to WMI and GRO have been reduced by 1x flight per week in the peak-summer. DUB has also decreased by 2x flights per week (now only 18x departures pw).
The flights lost were operated by WMI, GRO and DUB based aircraft respectively and therefore the BRS base remains at 4x aircraft fully utilised (well near enough!).

Currently the peak summer 2020 schedule shows 133x departures per week, 1x more than in 2019.

Odd to see a reduction in Dublin on a Monday where I would have thought it be in high demand. Opportunity for aer lingus ?

Equally odd is that the 20 x weekly remains until the end of June before Monday joins Saturday in a reduction to 2 x daily. Sunday was alway 2 x daily. I can understand Saturday with less business travel - but Monday? Perhaps it's simply a case of operational availability.

Then again, looking back at Ryanair frequencies to DUB in recent years there have been some summers when June and July were reduced to 2 x daily (14 x weekly) and when, in months in some summers the DUB frequency was 19 x weekly, the reduced days (2 x daily) were Tuesday and Sunday.

My earlier comment about messing with the Warsaw and Girona frequencies from summer to summer seems to hold good with Dublin too. If it's a case of finding more productive work (ie sun routes) in peak summer for the DUB-based aircraft that would have operated the reduced BRS-DUB service, I'm surprised the 20 x weekly has not been reinstated from September. Availability of aircraft again perhaps.

This tinkering with frequencies after originally publishing them is a disincentive to book early.

Next winter's BRS-DUB is still showing 19 x weekly (3 x daily exept Sat and Sun which are both 2 x daily), the same as the current winter.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Bristol Airport launches new flight route

The flight will operate twice a day

www.bristolpost.co.uk

Another non-story in the local rag about someone moaning about a flight from BRS. This is the fifth in the past few weeks with the others involving easyJet and passengers who missed flights that everyone else caught.

This time the airline is Ryanair and again involves someone after some compo.

Briefly the BRS-DUB flight was delayed by 40 minutes leaving for DUB because of a minor technical issue. When it reached DUB the weather conditions were obviously marginal because of strong winds. After two attempts to land at DUB the captain diverted to Shannon from where the passengers were taken to DUB by coach, arriving six hours after the scheduled aircraft arrival time.

The complainant believes that she is entitled to 600 euros compensation because the BRS departure was delayed by 40 minutes following the technical issue with the aircraft. She contends that had it departed BRS on time the weather might not have been as severe when the aircraft reached DUB and could have landed.

She is obviously a bit of a drama queen because she said the two failed attempts to land was a 'near death experience'. She was also able to say that with one of the failed attempts to land the aircraft was only six feet above the ground when the attempt was aborted. She is either an unusually good judge of height above ground from an aircraft or her mental state (''I was a complete mess, scary and crying') somehow sharpened her visual senses by a remarkable degree. She says the cabin crew was also handing out alcohol to some passengers during the diversion which she believed was a 'lure to not complain or claim any entitled compensation'.

Now whilst I have sympathy with passengers who are upset when turbulence strikes most of that sympathy disappears with situations like this where someone is clearly trying to get some cash out of an incident that was really beyond the control of the airline. There is no evidence provided in the report that the short delay on departure from BRS because of a minor technical issue coincided with a sudden deterioration in weather at DUB.

In any case, what if the 40-minute delay had enabled the aircraft to reach DUB in acceptable weather whereas an on-time departure coincided with non-acceptable weather causing a diversion. Would she then have complained that the aircraft should have waited 40 minutes before leaving BRS?

If you fly you have to be prepared to put up with poor weather at times and the inconvenience that can sometimes bring.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Dublin

An extra Ryanar departure (making four) to Dublin today at 0820. Presumably for the Six Nations rugby, Ireland v Wales. If so it seems very odd they didn't operate it from CWL unless they think it could attract some of the many Welsh people who live in and around Bristol.

 

[Jerry]

Dublin

An extra Ryanar departure (making four) to Dublin today at 0820. Presumably for the Six Nations rugby, Ireland v Wales. If so it seems very odd they didn't operate it from CWL unless they think it could attract some of the many Welsh people who live in and around Bristol.

I think it was because they put them onsale later than usual in early December. They must have felt that they wouldn't be able to fill the flights at such short notice at Cardiff.
It'll be interesting to see if next year they operate to Cardiff or Bristol.

 

[superking]

The rugby flights were planned to Dublin from BRS.As been said very strange. Dare I say it perhaps Ryanair have fallen out with CWL again.