Not sure if it was coincidence, but EI-DKP did have a small technical problem on this day, however i dont think this was anything to do with the DUB flight. I belive it was because of the reason mentioned by WYIA above, Italy or Dublin...obvious choice for lieks of FR who are as money concious as we know
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I've just booked a day return to Dublin for £30, that's why people use them!
WYIA
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In my experience, alot of the people that do not like ryanair are people that compare them to other airlines, people that dont understand the way they operate & people that dont read terms or ignore instructions that are published.
You know, people that turn up, not checked in & ignoring baggage policy completely that are stood in the way venting while they hold up everyone going on the flight who actually has common sense.
You get a seat, with more room than most other loco airlines. They have less delays due to free seating, their cabin crew clean away your waste promptly & less hold baggage means less loading time. You get 50% more hand luggage than several carriers, more than enough for a 3 day city break, going for longer then pay for a hold bag. The aircraft are newer & more reliable than Jet2, bmibaby & most charter airlines. They sell like mad onboard.. well why not? You paid little for your ticket & they are trying to make money.
If you dont want it then dont buy it, take your own food & have a drink in the terminal before you go. Their drinks prices are not that much more expensive than other carriers. On that note too, i managed to get 3 red wines on a flight to Girona with Ryanair in comparisson to a Jet2 Tenerife flight this year... i got 1 gin & tonic & this was not until my aircraft was passing over Portugal, the crew spent more time talking on the PA about a colouring competition for the kids. On a 4 hour flight, they managed 1 bar service!
Ryanair works like that for a reason, they make money, more money than anybody else & at the same time, they give thousands of people a chance to explore & get away every week without breaking the bank.
All this hate for Ryanair, I love Ryanair! Does exactly what it says on the tin & its now investing in LBA and keeping competition healthy. For those who want all the frills and a sweet for take off you can always try BA. Their service is still very good, when the crew are not on strike.
Long Live Ryanair.
You know, people that turn up, not checked in & ignoring baggage policy completely that are stood in the way venting while they hold up everyone going on the flight who actually has common sense.
You get a seat, with more room than most other loco airlines. They have less delays due to free seating, their cabin crew clean away your waste promptly & less hold baggage means less loading time. You get 50% more hand luggage than several carriers, more than enough for a 3 day city break, going for longer then pay for a hold bag. The aircraft are newer & more reliable than Jet2, bmibaby & most charter airlines. They sell like mad onboard.. well why not? You paid little for your ticket & they are trying to make money.
If you dont want it then dont buy it, take your own food & have a drink in the terminal before you go. Their drinks prices are not that much more expensive than other carriers. On that note too, i managed to get 3 red wines on a flight to Girona with Ryanair in comparisson to a Jet2 Tenerife flight this year... i got 1 gin & tonic & this was not until my aircraft was passing over Portugal, the crew spent more time talking on the PA about a colouring competition for the kids. On a 4 hour flight, they managed 1 bar service!
Ryanair works like that for a reason, they make money, more money than anybody else & at the same time, they give thousands of people a chance to explore & get away every week without breaking the bank.
All this hate for Ryanair, I love Ryanair! Does exactly what it says on the tin & its now investing in LBA and keeping competition healthy. For those who want all the frills and a sweet for take off you can always try BA. Their service is still very good, when the crew are not on strike.
Long Live Ryanair.
White Heather
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Good post WYIA
I agree
I agree
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[textarea]Thriving Ryanair praises regional airport
LEEDS-BRADFORD International Airport is proving to be one of the star performers for budget airline Ryanair, which is drawing up plans to launch up to five new routes from the airport by next summer.
Ryanair, which only opened its Leeds-Bradford base two months ago, said the airport is bucking the trend among UK airports.
Ryanair's head of communications Stephen McNamara said: "While the UK is struggling, Leeds-Bradford is bucking the trend. We've worked very closely with the airport. Leeds-Bradford is one of the only UK airports that is competing with Europe."
Ryanair opened the new base at Leeds-Bradford base at the end of March with 14 new routes. It already had three routes to Dublin, Barcelona and Alicante.
"The future looks good for Leeds-Bradford," said Mr McNamara. "We hope to have more routes out of the airport by next summer. We already have 17 and are targeting 20 or over 20."
He said the reason the airport is doing so well is that it is reducing costs and getting more passengers through the terminal.
"Leeds-Bradford is one of only a few growth airports in the UK for Ryanair. It's been one of our star performers," he said.
The most popular routes have been to Alicante, Malaga, Ibiza, while Krakow has also proved popular due to the large Polish community in the area and around Manchester.
Other successful routes include Malta, Palma and Majorca.
The news came yesterday as Ryanair swung back into profit as traffic grew despite the recession.
The group has also benefited from lower fuel costs.
The firm made pre-tax profits of £281m for the year to March 31,
against a £150.5m loss a year earlier.
Traffic grew 14 per cent to 67 million passengers while fuel costs fell 29 per cent to £755.5m.
The group expects further double-digit growth in traffic and profit this year – barring any more disruption from Iceland's volcanic ash cloud.
Ryanair said "repeated, unnecessary closures" of European airspace had left it with a bill of around £42.3m so far.
The firm – which lost 1.5 million passengers during the disruption in April and May – also hit out at "unfair and disproportionate" regulations leaving airlines with hefty bills to compensate stranded customers.
Ryanair backed down over initial plans to limit payouts to the cost of ticket prices but warned that passengers "cannot and should not expect to receive unlimited compensation or reimbursements".
The group announced plans to bring forward its first dividend since flotation in 1997 to this October.
Europe's biggest low-cost carrier had previously said it could end its no-dividend policy around 2013.
Ryanair, which has a track record of striking great fleet bargains at the bottom of industry cycles, pulled out of talks with Boeing on an order for 200 aircraft last year after several warnings over its future growth.
Chief executive Michael O'Leary said the dividend was possible after talks with Boeing ended last December, and there was "nothing else to do" with the surplus cash.
He kept the door ajar for a future deal with Boeing or its rival Airbus and said dividends would not become a regular feature. "Before anybody asks silly questions like what our dividend policy will be going forward, there isn't going to be another one for at least a number of years," he said.
Ryanair expects profits in the coming year to rise by between 10 and 15 per cent excluding costs from disruption caused by the ash cloud that drifted over European airspace.
The airline, with some of the industry's lowest costs, has thrived as weaker carriers struggled in the recession.
However, it said forward bookings for the summer period are "not looking great" and it is not expecting the European economy to return to healthy growth for up to a year.
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LEEDS-BRADFORD International Airport is proving to be one of the star performers for budget airline Ryanair, which is drawing up plans to launch up to five new routes from the airport by next summer.
Ryanair, which only opened its Leeds-Bradford base two months ago, said the airport is bucking the trend among UK airports.
Ryanair's head of communications Stephen McNamara said: "While the UK is struggling, Leeds-Bradford is bucking the trend. We've worked very closely with the airport. Leeds-Bradford is one of the only UK airports that is competing with Europe."
Ryanair opened the new base at Leeds-Bradford base at the end of March with 14 new routes. It already had three routes to Dublin, Barcelona and Alicante.
"The future looks good for Leeds-Bradford," said Mr McNamara. "We hope to have more routes out of the airport by next summer. We already have 17 and are targeting 20 or over 20."
He said the reason the airport is doing so well is that it is reducing costs and getting more passengers through the terminal.
"Leeds-Bradford is one of only a few growth airports in the UK for Ryanair. It's been one of our star performers," he said.
The most popular routes have been to Alicante, Malaga, Ibiza, while Krakow has also proved popular due to the large Polish community in the area and around Manchester.
Other successful routes include Malta, Palma and Majorca.
The news came yesterday as Ryanair swung back into profit as traffic grew despite the recession.
The group has also benefited from lower fuel costs.
The firm made pre-tax profits of £281m for the year to March 31,
against a £150.5m loss a year earlier.
Traffic grew 14 per cent to 67 million passengers while fuel costs fell 29 per cent to £755.5m.
The group expects further double-digit growth in traffic and profit this year – barring any more disruption from Iceland's volcanic ash cloud.
Ryanair said "repeated, unnecessary closures" of European airspace had left it with a bill of around £42.3m so far.
The firm – which lost 1.5 million passengers during the disruption in April and May – also hit out at "unfair and disproportionate" regulations leaving airlines with hefty bills to compensate stranded customers.
Ryanair backed down over initial plans to limit payouts to the cost of ticket prices but warned that passengers "cannot and should not expect to receive unlimited compensation or reimbursements".
The group announced plans to bring forward its first dividend since flotation in 1997 to this October.
Europe's biggest low-cost carrier had previously said it could end its no-dividend policy around 2013.
Ryanair, which has a track record of striking great fleet bargains at the bottom of industry cycles, pulled out of talks with Boeing on an order for 200 aircraft last year after several warnings over its future growth.
Chief executive Michael O'Leary said the dividend was possible after talks with Boeing ended last December, and there was "nothing else to do" with the surplus cash.
He kept the door ajar for a future deal with Boeing or its rival Airbus and said dividends would not become a regular feature. "Before anybody asks silly questions like what our dividend policy will be going forward, there isn't going to be another one for at least a number of years," he said.
Ryanair expects profits in the coming year to rise by between 10 and 15 per cent excluding costs from disruption caused by the ash cloud that drifted over European airspace.
The airline, with some of the industry's lowest costs, has thrived as weaker carriers struggled in the recession.
However, it said forward bookings for the summer period are "not looking great" and it is not expecting the European economy to return to healthy growth for up to a year.
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"We hope to have more routes out of the airport by next summer. We already have 17 and are targeting 20 or over 20."
So an increase of three or four routes would indicate either a third aircraft with additional capacity on some routes already served alongside a small number of new routes (or) three or four new routes served by aircraft from other bases maybe?
So an increase of three or four routes would indicate either a third aircraft with additional capacity on some routes already served alongside a small number of new routes (or) three or four new routes served by aircraft from other bases maybe?
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Would be nice to see a 3rd ryanair on the ramp & some canary island routes
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Good News for Leeds/Bradford International Airport, Now let's get on with the Teminal Extension and i bet more routes will develop from other airlines in the future
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I will be very surprised if Ryanair don't fly to the Canaries this winter (replacing summer only flights).
White Heather
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Well I know that Ryanair like a quick turn round, but this is taking things too far surely?? 
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Type Rated B767 said:
We can't say for certain but I would tend to think that that was the case. Most airports tend to push fledgling or failing routes on their websites and in a previous post of mine you could quote me for suggesting that the NOC was probably an under performer. Not knocking FR at all (pardon the pun), it's great that they've 'given it a go'. Hopefully the extra 'push' will boost the routes enough for us to be able to keep them.
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Being discussed generally in the Ryanair thread under World Airlines. For the sake of continuity I will reprise my last post in that thread here:
I think it's simply that last winter LBA had relatively few Ryanair flights because itwas not then a base.
This winter there will a base, ergo there will be more flights in winter 10/11 than 09/10 simply because of this even if the two based aircraft are not fully utilised.
Remember Ryanair is comparing last winter with next winter which is why I suggested it was spin so far as LBA is concerned.
All the other bases were bases* last winter and so any reduction, however small, can be trumpeted to suit Ryanair's stance against the UK APD.
* Edinburgh is the exception, being a base last winter that FR says will not suffer reductions this coming winter.
Of course it may be that LBA will see a full schedule in winter 10/11 without any notional reduction. If that is the case then it suggests that EDI and LBA are outperforming the other UK bases.
However, with Ryanair things are often not what they appear because if it suits them their black dog will always be blacker than your black dog.
Assuming that LBA does have a full complement of routes in winter 10/11 then the ones you suggest are all likely contenders in themselves, though perhaps not all in total.
I think it's simply that last winter LBA had relatively few Ryanair flights because itwas not then a base.
This winter there will a base, ergo there will be more flights in winter 10/11 than 09/10 simply because of this even if the two based aircraft are not fully utilised.
Remember Ryanair is comparing last winter with next winter which is why I suggested it was spin so far as LBA is concerned.
All the other bases were bases* last winter and so any reduction, however small, can be trumpeted to suit Ryanair's stance against the UK APD.
* Edinburgh is the exception, being a base last winter that FR says will not suffer reductions this coming winter.
Of course it may be that LBA will see a full schedule in winter 10/11 without any notional reduction. If that is the case then it suggests that EDI and LBA are outperforming the other UK bases.
However, with Ryanair things are often not what they appear because if it suits them their black dog will always be blacker than your black dog.
Assuming that LBA does have a full complement of routes in winter 10/11 then the ones you suggest are all likely contenders in themselves, though perhaps not all in total.
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The contract between LBA and Ryanair is that the airport guarantees a (low) fee per passenger and the airline guarantees a certain number of passengers. Therefore, the operation this winter will be significantly bigger than it was last winter as part of that deal and (as reported in the local media) they are finalising details on at least two new routes for W10/11.
WYIA
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Canary Isles please!!!!!
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