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[News Guru]

O’Leary says Ryanair would consider Glasgow Airport base

The sale of Glasgow Airport by owner BAA could trigger the arrival of Ryanair, STV reports. Michael O'Leary, Ryanair's Chief Executive, said yesterday that he wants to operate flights between Scotland's biggest city and holiday destinations, as well as business routes and less typical summer destinations. Any flights from Glasgow would not affect the carrier’s base at Prestwick, which Mr O’Leary said will still be its main airport for the region.

BAA is expected to be forced to sell either Glasgow or Edinburgh airport along with Stansted by the Competition Commission in a ruling to be announced next week. Ryanair has been discussing the possibility of using Glasgow airport since the start of the year but Mr O'Leary said talks may continue for another year as they are still at an earlier stage.

Ryanair's relationship with the BAA-owned airport was ‘not good’ he said, but added he is optimistic that any sell-off of the site would change that.

However, a Glasgow Airport spokesman dismissed the claims. He told STV: ‘Like any airport, we meet with airlines on a regular basis. While we have held exploratory discussions with Ryanair, at no time whatsoever did we receive any serious note of interest from the airline to build a base at Glasgow Airport, as they have told us they are happy at Prestwick.’

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[Aviador]

Glasgow Airport lands new Sofia service

Ryanair has announced plans to launch a new direct service connecting Glasgow to Bulgaria’s capital city of Sofia.

http://www.bqlive.co.uk/2016/04/04/scotch-exporters-cheer-new-sofia-service/

 

[Ray Finkle]

Glasgow Intl

• 4 new routes to Lisbon (2 wkly), Palanga (2 wkly), Valencia (2 wkly) & Zadar (2 wkly)
• 6 new summer routes to Alicante (3 wkly), Brussels (2 wkly), Gran Canaria (1 wkly),

Lanzarote (2 wkly), Malaga (4 wkly) & Sofia (2 wkly)

• More frequency to Berlin (6 wkly)
• 20 routes in total
• 1.25m customers p.a. (+150,000)
• 900* “on-site” jobs p.a.

http://corporate.ryanair.com/news/n...alencia-zadar/?market=en#sthash.ypR0tDi8.dpuf

 

[jfy1999]

Madrid W17/18 was launched today and Glasgow is one of the new routes (4x weekly)

 

[ethanegcc]

Glasgow-Frankfurt Am Main route launched for winter 2017, along with MAN and STN in the UK.

 

[Jerry]

Ryanair has cut London Stansted and Las Palmas from Glasgow airport for winter 2017/18.

 

[Aviador]

Ryanair's new Glasgow to Madrid & Krakow services take off

Ryanair today celebrated the first flights on its new twice-weekly Glasgow service to Krakow and four times weekly service to Madrid. Ryanair’s Glasgow international Winter schedule includes 18 routes in total, including three new routes to Madrid, Krakow and Frankfurt.

To celebrate the start of its new Glasgow routes, Ryanair has released seats from Glasgow from just £9.99, for travel from November to January, which are only available for booking on the Ryanair.com website until midnight Friday (3 Nov).

Ryanair’s Robin Kiely said:

“Winter is here and we’re pleased to launch our new Glasgow to Madrid and Krakow services, the first of our winter 2017 routes. Scottish customers and visitors can choose from 18 Glasgow routes in total this winter, including three new routes to Madrid, Krakow and Frankfurt."

Paul White, business development manager at Glasgow Airport, said:

“Ryanair has continually responded to passenger demand since setting up base at the airport in October 2014.

“This year alone the airline has launched a series of popular routes to Lisbon, Palanga, Valencia, Zadar and Frankfurt, taking the total of services operated by Ryanair from Glasgow to 23.

“The introduction of direct flights to Madrid and Krakow is great news and both cities are sure to be popular with our passengers, particularly as both services are new routes for the airport and fantastic additions to our extensive European destination network.”

 

[lbaspotter]

Unconfirmed reports on twitter suggest that Ryanair is to announce tomorrow that it will close its Glasgow base at the end of the summer 2018 season with routes to be switched to its Edinburgh base.

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[jfy1999]

Glasgow will have just 3 routes left - in the press release they blamed APD

Edinburgh: 45 routes including London Stansted & 11 new routes to Berlin, Derry, Gothenburg, Hamburg, Lisbon, Memmingen, Stockholm Skavsta, Riga, Seville, Sofia, & Tallinn

– Glasgow Prestwick: 8 routes to Alicante, Faro, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Malaga, Malta, Rzeszow & Tenerife South

– Glasgow International – 3 routes to Dublin (3 times daily), Krakow (2 wkly) & Wroclaw (2 wkly)

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Glasgow will have just 3 routes left - in the press release they blamed APD

Edinburgh: 45 routes including London Stansted & 11 new routes to Berlin, Derry, Gothenburg, Hamburg, Lisbon, Memmingen, Stockholm Skavsta, Riga, Seville, Sofia, & Tallinn

– Glasgow Prestwick: 8 routes to Alicante, Faro, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Malaga, Malta, Rzeszow & Tenerife South

– Glasgow International – 3 routes to Dublin (3 times daily), Krakow (2 wkly) & Wroclaw (2 wkly)

The rationale according to Ryanair is, "....... the weaker Glasgow market where efforts to stimulate low fare demand are severely hampered by the continuing burden of APD".

You would think that applies to PIK more so than to GLA, yet more routes remain at PIK following today's announcement. Weren't some FR PIK routes switched to GLA a year or two ago?

The press release speaks of a current one-aircraft base at GLA. I imagined it was bigger than that.

Addendum

I've since read a post elsewhere that suggests that GLA has two aircraft based in summer but one in winter.

 

[Bigman]

I don't get this. Surely Scottish APD applies at both GLA and EDI??????

 

[Aviador]

I don't get this. Surely Scottish APD applies at both GLA and EDI??????

Nobody gets it. It's the Ryanair spin-doctor at work here, what exactly they are spinning though is anyone's guess.

 

[Brum X]

Bad news for GLA and shame on you Ryanair.

APD, my a-se

 

[Ianbutty]

I don't get this. Surely Scottish APD applies at both GLA and EDI??????

Totally bonkers. Ryanair said that GLA cannot "bear the burden". Maybe EDI can. But I suspect two bases close together...close one...expand the other...upset the customers...cherish the cost savings.

 

[kraktoa]

RyanAir showing its muscles again. A ruthless airline that thinks it controls airports and their trade.

I wish i am alive to see one day when RyanAir isbegging to come back to airports that it so cruelly and inexplicably ditched.

 

[Silvercity]

There are the 300 jobs going too.

 

[Jerry]

There are the 300 jobs going too.

Hopefully many of them will get transferred to Edinburgh and Prestwick.

 

[jfy1999]

Bydgoszcz-Glasgow added for summer 2019.

I'm sure that'll compensate for the loss of the based aircraft and 20-odd routes

 

[Jerry]

It looks like Ryanair may be reversing some of their previous cuts to Glasgow using away based aircraft.
As Warsaw Modlin, Malaga, Alicante and Brussels all start again in April and more routes may follow.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....r-to-reverse-glasgow-route-cuts-1-4802066/amp

 

[Brum X]

It looks like Ryanair may be reversing some of their previous cuts to Glasgow using away based aircraft.
As Warsaw Modlin, Malaga, Alicante and Brussels all start again in April and more routes may follow.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....r-to-reverse-glasgow-route-cuts-1-4802066/amp

How typically Ryanair