Ryanair

[Jerry]

Too much capacity for January I expect.

 

[Samdorob]

Not much to see yet, but 4 winter-ish dates have been added for Malaga. 17, 19, 24 & 26 of March.
Currently off sale, but times are showing via the app.

 

[Jerry]

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Not much to see yet, but 4 winter-ish dates have been added for Malaga. 17, 19, 24 & 26 of March.
Currently off sale, but times are showing via the app.

Apparently they've also changed the late Saturday departure on Dublin from 23.45 to 20.05 for winter 2025-26

 

[MrFenner]

Not much to see yet, but 4 winter-ish dates have been added for Malaga. 17, 19, 24 & 26 of March.
Currently off sale, but times are showing via the app.

Very interesting ebb into the “winter” schedule, just a shame VY don’t add more for the likes of half term and pre Easter getaways - I see more to come from FR for S26

 

[geoff]

Poster on PPRune has said the Dublin High Court has postponed the passenger cap at Dublin Airport for another 12 months, and the Irish Transport minister is to bring a bill before the Irish Parliament recommending that the cap at Dublin Airport be scrapped altogether. Is there a chance that FR may expand on the Dublin route?

 

[Jerry]

Poster on PPRune has said the Dublin High Court has postponed the passenger cap at Dublin Airport for another 12 months, and the Irish Transport minister is to bring a bill before the Irish Parliament recommending that the cap at Dublin Airport be scrapped altogether. Is there a chance that FR may expand on the Dublin route?

Good news as I believe it was responsible for the reduction last time around. Hopefully we'll see Dublin go at least daily.

 

[Samdorob]

Ryanair have released their summer 2026 dates (not on sale yet). No new routes at the moment.

Alicante: 4w
Dublin: 6w
Faro: 3w
Malaga: 5w
Tenerife: 1w

That’s 19 departures per week.

Whilst growth is great, I guess my only worry is are Ryanair firmly treading on Vuelings toes when it comes to the Spanish routes. Vueling have usually released Alicante’s summer offering by now, but I suspect they’ve been holding off to see what Ryanair do.

 

[geoff]

CWL News and information(Facebook), reporting that Ryanair have started loading CWL flights for Summer 26 as follows.
Alicante from 3 to 4 flights per week
Dublin 6 per week
Faro from 2 to 3 flights per week
Malaga from 3 to 5 flights per week
Tenerife 1 weekly

A total of 19 flights so far. Sorry to repeat your posting Sam, you just beat me to it.

 

[Jerry]

Ryanair have released their summer 2026 dates (not on sale yet). No new routes at the moment.

Alicante: 4w
Dublin: 6w
Faro: 3w
Malaga: 5w
Tenerife: 1w

That’s 19 departures per week.

Whilst growth is great, I guess my only worry is are Ryanair firmly treading on Vuelings toes when it comes to the Spanish routes. Vueling have usually released Alicante’s summer offering by now, but I suspect they’ve been holding off to see what Ryanair do.

Good news to see the increase. Hopefully we'll see more and hopefully we'll not see cuts from Vueling but an extra 4 weekly flights from Ryanair is good news.

 

[Samdorob]

Good news to see the increase. Hopefully we'll see more and hopefully we'll not see cuts from Vueling but an extra 4 weekly flights from Ryanair is good news.

Hoping for a new summer route too.

 

[Jarvo]

I know operational things happen and FR24 can show strange stuff... However, FR decided to overnight a couple of planes at CWL rather than returning to BRS last night? If nothing else a 24/7 operation and a growing relationship maybe?

 

[Nuffsaid]

The airport has to be very careful not to scare off Vueling who have been loyal clients for over 10 years.
It would be great if Ryanair could offer some sun routes to the other Canaries as well as Greece and Malta.

 

[Jerry]

Hoping for a new summer route too.

Fingers crossed we'll see Mallorca. I'm told it was close last year and Edinburgh would be nice!

View attachment 32858I know operational things happen and FR24 can show strange stuff... However, FR decided to overnight a couple of planes at CWL rather than returning to BRS last night? If nothing else a 24/7 operation and a growing relationship maybe?

What happened at Bristol? Did it close for a bit?

The airport has to be very careful not to scare off Vueling who have been loyal clients for over 10 years.
It would be great if Ryanair could offer some sun routes to the other Canaries as well as Greece and Malta.

No one wants to see Vueling leave but for the airport Ryanair is the only realistic chance it now has of a major LCC network and possibly even in the long term a base and the latter especially could see a better chance of routes to Lanzarote, Greek islands and Malta.

 

[MrFenner]

Went to DUB for a couple of nights and flew with FR from CWL - 188 booked on Sundays outbound flight at 11:00, and yesterdays return was on an 8200 (Max) which was full as far as I could see!

More to come from FR at CWL I hope

View attachment 32858I know operational things happen and FR24 can show strange stuff... However, FR decided to overnight a couple of planes at CWL rather than returning to BRS last night? If nothing else a 24/7 operation and a growing relationship maybe?

Seems these were early morning arrival diverts (one from MAD and one from ALC) and not parked overnight - there were a few diverts from BRS this morning due to early fog.

 

[Jerry]

This is what the Ryanair schedule for Summer 2026 could look like obviously its subject to change as its not onsale yet but gives an idea of the departure schedule.
At the moment it looks like we'll see 1 departure on Saturday, 3 departures on Mondays and Thursdays and 4 departures on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays.
Monday
10.25 Alicante
11.55 Dublin
13.55 Malaga
Tuesday
09.20 Faro
16.15 Malaga
21.45 Alicante
23.15 Dublin
Wednesday
Thursday
09.00 Malaga
16.55 Alicante
22.25 Dublin
Friday
10.25 Tenerife
15.35 Malaga
17.45 Faro
22.20 Dublin
Saturday
09.25 Dublin
Sunday
09.35 Alicante
14.45 Malaga
17.40 Faro
21.45 Dublin

 

[Jerry]

Roughly at the moment the extra 4 weekly departures will mean an extra 45,000 seats on sale for Summer 2026 using a 737 800.

 

[geoff]

It's good to see FR doing two Dublin flights today, all four flights have loads of between 94%-96%.

 

[Jerry]

It's good to see FR doing two Dublin flights today, all four flights have loads of between 94%-96%.

And Alicante for the winter starts as well. Hopefully the good LFs will encourage Ryanair to add more frequency to Dublin in Summer 2026.

 

[geoff]

Two return Dublin flights again today 3 flights with loads over 90%, and the morning CWL-DUB flight 100% full.

 

[Jerry]

2 departures to Dublin today. Would be great to see that more regularly.