Ryanair

[AirBingley]

Given they’ve been slow to put S22 on sale it sounds like they’re travelling to Yorkshire with a list of demands to squeeze even more with some pretty hefty bargaining tools!

 

[Malaga]

Does it matter about Ryanair, if the route is such a money maker, someone else will quickly fill the void.

 

[CM.]

Does it matter about Ryanair, if the route is such a money maker, someone else will quickly fill the void.

Actually yes it does matter. They’re a valuable airline here at LBA and is disappointing if they’re indeed cutting it for winter. Just because they cut the route doesn’t mean another carrier will fill the gap as such. Hopefully when LBA and Ryanair have talks it’ll be good news and they will hopefully add Alicante flights back along with maybe new routes.

 

[CM.]

Could this be the reason for No Alicante??

https://twitter.com/x/status/1444006232684105730

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

Sounds to me like more of a spat with Alicante then local airports in the UK if that is the case.

And we know Alicante will value the amount of passengers they put through the airport each year from the UK alone let alone any other countries Ryanair fly to and fro.

 

[IanFarquharson]

BHX-ALC is on sale !

 

[TheLocalYokel]

BHX-ALC is on sale !

As are other Ryanair UK-ALC routes, so unless the glitch was a very short one that explanation would appear not to apply.

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

It appears @TheLocalYokel it may have been a glitch. I was just trying to hope it was a Ryanair Alicante spat.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

The 'like' is for your explanation, not for the uncertainty surrounding the LBA-ALC route.

 

[LBA4EVER]

Still Nothing from LBA though.

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

Leave them to it @LBA4EVER. I'm sure that the airport are very much puzzled as we are. As I've alluded to on a number of occasions - Jet2/Ryanair bounce of each other on the route and need one another. All will become clear I'm sure in due course.

Just hope they dont pack up shop and end up in MME.

 

[dmrodgers]

If Ryanair have genuinely axed the route for winter would it not be a good opportunity for the airport to try and get into bed with Easyjet and try to encourage them to fly the route. If it is as popular as appears from all the comments then this would be an ideal time for them to look at the route. May be wrong here but I thought I had seen somewhere on here that someone in a high position at LBA had some connections with Easy.

 

[White Heather]

If Ryanair have genuinely axed the route for winter would it not be a good opportunity for the airport to try and get into bed with Easyjet and try to encourage them to fly the route. If it is as popular as appears from all the comments then this would be an ideal time for them to look at the route. May be wrong here but I thought I had seen somewhere on here that someone in a high position at LBA had some connections with Easy.

Yes, the commercial Director is ex easyJet, but it's not so simple as them just taking in the ALC route. They don't have a base here to fly the route. Just doing a one off route to Spain doesn't work. They would need a base and they have repeatedly declined to operate single aircraft bases. With easyJet they are in in a big way, or not at all.

 

[752]

easyJet have announced extra A/C at bases inc FAO, AGP, PMI & BCN, im not sure if they have a ALC base but if they did they could add in rotations from ALC based AC. easyJet was never big at BHX but slowly grew destinations there. hopefully LBA could get something similar.

Didn't FR have a big fall out with ALC a couple of years ago and removed a lot of routes? think i recall.

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

easyJet strategy is to be no.1 or no.2 on routes at their bases and to be the the similar position at the bases. Hence probably doing a sole ALC doesn't work.

You could get it done several different ways but I would reckon crew hours would restrict a 4 flight day to Alicante if it was to be for example a Liverpool or Manchester airport base. You could do it BFS-LBA-ALC-LBA-BFS route but that scuppers the BFS business passengers. Years ago NCL/BRS did there respective BRS-NCL-AGP-BRS, and NCL-BRS-AGP-NCL routes. If LBA was to become a base for easyJet that could happen with us for ALC as the example.

@Ap1995 you are correct. Hence my post #2,585. However it appears it isn't sadly a spat with Alicante.

 

[CM.]

Ryanair have pulled the Leeds/Bradford to Ibiza route. As it’s not on the list anymore.

 

[752]

Still concerning that S22 is not on sale still..

 

[LBA4EVER]

Its totally beyond me whats going off at LBA at present, come on LBA management and mr gove!

 

[CM.]

Still concerning that S22 is not on sale still..

They usually put flights on sale 6 months before. (Or so I’m told) so if that’s the case flights would be on sale till April. (The start of the Summer season)

 

[752]

Every other base is on sale apart from EMA, so I really don't think it is the case at all now, loosing alot of forward bookings to other bases/airlines now