Ryanair

[Pontyboy]

We have a Ryanair 737 at Cardiff. Landed early this morning. ETD 10.00. Any ideas on why it’s at CWL. Putting 2+2 together but could there be a press conference this morning……..

 

[Jerry]

No idea. Nothing on the departure board. I think a base is unlikely but I wouldn't be surprised if they announced one!

 

[CWL94]

The FR plane at CWL now is the inbound AGP from last night which must have got cancelled!

It’s scheduled to leave to STN at 10:10

 

[Pontyboy]

Ah! Wishful thinking by me then!! Thanks for the info.

 

[Sean123]

Think it went tech, replacement came in from Stanstead

 

[Barry Man]

The out bound flight whent tec pilot inspection found a 1 or 2 mm chip in one of the fan blades very sharp eyes when I was shown a picture of it it really had to be enlarged to see it . Question answered

 

[Jerry]

Unfortunately it looks like Ryanair have taken Dublin Summer 2023 offsale. Hopefully it's just temporary for a new schedule maybe with more frequency because the route does seem to be doing well!

 

[MrFenner]

Unfortunately it looks like Ryanair have taken Dublin Summer 2023 offsale. Hopefully it's just temporary for a new schedule maybe with more frequency because the route does seem to be doing well!

This has happened to a lot S23 routes that I have checked today, it certainly isn't just CWL.

 

[Jerry]

This has happened to a lot S23 routes that I have checked today, it certainly isn't just CWL.

Well that is hopefully good news in a way!

 

[MrFenner]

They’re back on sale

 

[Jerry]

It's a shame that instead of offering rescue fares they don't offer replacement routes from Cardiff.

Ryanair launches rescue fares as Wizz Air cuts Cardiff routes

Rescue fares are now on sale on the Irish airline's website for travel until the end of October

www.business-live.co.uk

 

[Jerry]

Well some good news from Ryanair! From the last week of September Dublin will increase to 5 weekly with the addition of a flight on Thursdays and then from the 2nd week of October the route will go 6 weekly with the addition of a flight on Saturdays then it's back to 4 weekly from the last week of October.

 

[MrFenner]

Great news! Some amazing £9.99 fares to be had across the new rotations too

 

[Jerry]

Yep it is good news! Hopefully they'll add more flights for the winter months and it would be great if we got a new route from them!

 

[Nuffsaid]

Tenerife and Lanzarote would be great winter additions by Ryanair.
It would also be good if Wizz could get a ski flight up and running. They are adding Grenoble from Luton and Gatwick.

 

[Jerry]

Tenerife and Lanzarote would be great winter additions by Ryanair.
It would also be good if Wizz could get a ski flight up and running. They are adding Grenoble from Luton and Gatwick.

But they don't have bases there, if they hadn't shut the base in Tenerife then we could still see that route carrying on now.

 

[MrFenner]

The only issue with that is Ryanair don’t base in any of the Canary Islands anymore, hence why the ever popular TFS route from CWL was cut a couple of years back…

However there are news articles alluding to them potentially reopening TFS, LPA and ACE bases but they do currently owe the staff who were culled there over €6million in payments.

Even without bases there, Ryanair accounts for 26% of the airline seats on the islands, as well as serving 51 destinations in 13 countries.

So I definitely wouldn’t rule out a return in the future, but it certainly won’t be W22/23.

(apologies Jerry, I was typing as you’d submitted your post! I didn’t mean to duplicate the comments)

 

[CWL94]

One positive out of the Dublin increases again is that there is defiantly a positive relationship between Cardiff and FR now!

For me there’s no reason next summer why DUB shouldn’t be daily and even double daily on Fridays and Sundays!

Certainly something to keep an eye on next summer! Id also like to see AGP increased and operated for a full season too! VY’s prices for AGP September and October are currently eye watering!

 

[Jerry]

Id also like to see AGP increased and operated for a full season too!

I think the problem with Malaga going all season may be aircraft availability on the Malaga side, it may well be that the aircraft used for the route is only based at AGP for June to September or it does the flights due to another route having a reduction in flights just for that period. I suspect for it too go all season would need an expansion of the base there.

However there are news articles alluding to them potentially reopening TFS, LPA and ACE bases but they do currently owe the staff who were culled there over €6million in payments.

Well hopefully they'll reopen the bases and CWL will be under consideration for flights. TFS worked well with them.

 

[geoff]

Reports in Travel Trade Gazette and Travel Weekly, that Ryanair are to increase flights from 20 UK airports for the winter, so CWL must be in with a chance of something extra from Ryanair.