Ryanair

[Foxlimayankee]

Looking back to 2018 and 2019 Flybe carried this amount of CWL-BHD
2018 - 70784
2019 - 62322

With EI being daily there's just over 52k seats on offer (If daily were to run from January)

As a comparison Easyjet carried 258k in 2018 and just under 280k in 2019.

For CWL-EDI
2018 - 102k
2019 - 111k

BRS-EDI carried around 400k each year.

There's huge potential for CWL-EDI to grow.

Ryanair have never had a big domestic network, but if EDI-BOH is starting as well as BFS growth, it could well be a possibility.

 

[geoff]

Talk on the other forum, of interviews for airline for a base at CWL, but it now appears that Cardiff will be a city where the interviews will take place. However one contributor on the other forum, has previously mentioned the possibility of a FR base at CWL. Which ever way it goes it's nice to see that the airline wants applicants from Wales. There are plenty of routes where FR would do very well on from CWL.

 

[Jerry]

Would be interesting to know who the airline but i suspect that they're based at Bristol.
Surely in the long run a Ryanair base has to be a goal for CWL especially if they're to get over the 2 million passenger mark again.

 

[Tinkerman]

BFS has been changed to operated by Air Explore - From further investigation it appears as though all BFS aircraft for Summer 2023 are now Air Explore (Were previously G-registered, operated by Ryanair UK).

 

[Jerry]

That's surprising for Ryanair i didn't think they used ACMI airlines. Plane type will be a 737 800 so no different from Ryanair.

 

[Foxlimayankee]

BFS has been changed to operated by Air Explore - From further investigation it appears as though all BFS aircraft for Summer 2023 are now Air Explore (Were previously G-registered, operated by Ryanair UK).

Some BFS flights are operated from other bases (EDI, MAN and 1 of the 2 daily STN flights). And they also show Air explore.
Various other inter UK routes from EDI and STN also showing Air Explore.
Something going on with FR's UK AOC?

 

[StanMan]

Ryanair are using Air Explore aircraft on an acmi basis to cover capacity / fleet availabilty issues. ED operate 737 400's and 800's. Maybe we'll see 400's for a relatively short hop?

 

[Nigel B]

AirExplore has a fleet of 8 B.737.800.

 

[Jerry]

Looking at the below schedule i wonder if Cardiff can persuade Ryanair too go to 20 weekly flights with some new routes and extra frequencies for Summer 2024. In the long term maybe the airport can get Ryanair to replace the lost Wizz flights which would put them near the 30 weekly departure mark.
This is what Ryanair will offer from Cardiff for Summer 2023
Belfast International 2 weekly Wednesday and Saturday
Dublin 7 weekly daily flights
Faro 2 weekly Friday and Sunday
Malaga 2 weekly Tuesday and Saturday

Monday
23.00 Dublin
Tuesday
09.55 Dublin
16.55 Malaga
Wednesday
11.15 Belfast Int
22.50 Dublin
Thursday
23.05 Dublin
Friday
09.20 Faro
17.55 Dublin
Saturday
16.50 Malaga
21.55 Belfast Int
22.05 Dublin
Sunday
11.50 Faro
13.25 Dublin

 

[Jerry]

There have been reports on social media that the extra flights for the rugby have been full both ways, i know many go over too Ireland for a weekend away during the rugby but quite a lot must also be potentially non rugby related. Just makes me wonder if eventually we could see Ryanair's weekly flights for Dublin in double figures? 10 too 12 weekly?

Would be interesting too know the ratio of Irish too Welsh passengers for the route.

 

[geoff]

FR have operated 9 services per week in the past, prior to disagreements with the airports previous owners, and at CWL they have not got any competition, from Aer Lingus regional.

 

[YorkshireLad]

Loads on the remaining extra flights to/from Dublin

Outbound
FR413 - 185 (98%)
FR411 - 175 (92.6%)
FR679 - 182 (96.3%)

Inbound
FR410 - 180 (95.2%)
FR678 - 176 (93.1%)

Tomorrows flight currently shows as follows
Outbound
183 (96.8%)
Inbound
182 (96.3%)

 

[geoff]

Nice to see such high loads each way, it will certainly help CWL's winter figures.

 

[MrFenner]

Ryanair announces its biggest ever Cardiff schedule for Summer 2023

Slight errors I think as it states 25+ flights a week

It also outlines flights by 4 x FAO, 4 x AGP, 4 x BFS and 14 x DUB!

Unless there’s more to come…

 

[CWL94]

Ryanair announces its biggest ever Cardiff schedule for Summer 2023

Slight errors I think as it states 25+ flights a week

It also outlines flights by 4 x FAO, 4 x AGP, 4 x BFS and 14 x DUB!

Unless there’s more to come…

I think they are including the returns in this! So for example 7 departures to DUB, 7 arrivals etc so 14+4+4+4 = 26 return flights

 

[geoff]

They have announced flights from other airports also, but they show the return flights as well as the outward flights.

 

[MrFenner]

I think they are including the returns in this! So for example 7 departures to DUB, 7 arrivals etc so 14+4+4+4 = 26 return flights

Your sums would make sense!

I mean I’d say silly me but it’s more like silly Ryanair



Wishful thinking eh!

 

[Jerry]

It's 26 not 25! It's 13 weekly departures overall! Hopefully we'll see more from them next summer and in the winter. But it's nice to see something positive about Cardiff in the news!

 

[geoff]

Wales on line have given the news a lot of coverage.

 

[Jerry]

Ryanair December 2022 Stats
Dublin 4106 average load 128
Faro 1375 average load 98