Ryanair

[User001]

Looking like Ryanair will have 10 based aircraft for the August peak.

They will have 9 based all season, but usually bring in an extra aircraft for August and sometimes part of Sept.

I count 19 based departures every day barring Saturday which has 11 (but one could be in the middle of a W pattern) and Sunday has 9, but Mon-Fri have 10 departures.

 

[Aceshigh]

Incredible really , that equates to a departure every 30 minutes . ...

 

[User001]

New 3 weekly Naples to be announced tomorrow.

 

[jfy1999]

New 3 weekly Naples to be announced tomorrow.

Starts April 4 and operates Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. All flights on NAP based aircraft.

NAP 10:00 MAN 11:55
MAN 12:20 NAP 16:15

 

[User001]

Ryanair to run a one off Glasgow Prestwick on 6th December.

Departs MAN 2345 arrives PIK 0045 as FR6010.

Possibly a football charter but can't find any inbound.

 

[Jerry]

Ryanair to run a one off Glasgow Prestwick on 6th December.

Departs MAN 2345 arrives PIK 0045 as FR6010.

Possibly a football charter but can't find any inbound.

Using it to reposition an aircraft while covering a football flight?

 

[Scottie Dog]

Or maybe off for maintenance ?

 

[Land23R]

I've just had a trawl through the Ryanair schedules for dates in August and I can only come up with 9 departures in the first wave on all mornings except Sat. and Tues. when I only counted 8. The 9 on Sunday includes a 07.35 departure to Palma which I thought might have come from CRL but the latter only operates Sunday evenings. There is a 09.00 to Palma on a Tuesday which I've not included as I assume it is not with a based a/c (but haven't deduced where it arrives from.)

Unless somebody can come up with an extra departure every morning, or Ryanair have more flights to load, it doesn't look as if we will get the 10 based in August that was reported. I've not checked June/July, but if it's 8 based in those months with the uplift to 9 in August, won't it be the same as S2016?

There may be more flights with non-based a/c this year of course bearing in mind the new daily flights to Berlin, Hamburg and Nuremberg that only started this winter, plus the new routes to Wroclaw and Naples. However, I've not looked at frequencies on existing routes to see if they have changed up or down.

If anyone has data for the number of weekly departures this coming August compared to last year, it would be appreciated.

 

[EGCC_MAN]

Back on January 12th Ryanair issued a press release outlining their main changes and capacity increases for their S17 programme out of STN. They generally issue a press release for each major base in turn before start of season, staggered over afew weeks to maximise publicity. Once these appear we generally have a decent insight into the final shape of the programme for each base. So far I've only seen the STN edition, but with another week passed hopefully more of these will appear soon.

The STN press release reconfirmed that MAG has a good working relationship with Ryanair, and of course KO'T was formerly a senior executive there, so I would expect MAN to be included in favourable deals negotiated between the two parties. However, MAN has one increasingly significant encumbrance. T3 is no longer large enough to accommodate the number of aircraft Ryanair might want to base at MAN and they will not contemplate remote parking for operational reasons. MAN's large proportion of RYR flights originating from other bases at off-peak times is a big help of course, but the airport will hit a physical restriction if further based units cannot be accommodated at T3 itself.

Elsewhere on these forums we also read that the proposed two-aircraft Vueling base for S17 is now looking less likely. And that is another airline which under current arrangements requires T3 access.

MAG has no doubt done the sums on the cost of expanding T3 versus the expected return on investment. The expense of relocating the reported utilities hub under Ringway Road and the loss of premium car parking income combined with the actual build-cost of a T3 extension may mitigate against construction from the point of view of a business case. No-frills carriers are not big payers. But that comes with an implicit quid pro quo cost: T3 now offers insufficient capacity to accommodate all the based units that its client airlines wish to place there. I fear that we're really starting to see the effects of that trade-off now. Ryanair are expanding at both LBA and LPL this summer, and the Vueling base at MAN doesn't look like happening yet.

 

[EGCC_MAN]

Topical timing! Further to my posting above, reports are just reaching Dried Fruit to the effect that MAG is building a staircase and covered walkway out to stands 56 & 57 on T3. That means that these two stands could successfully service based Ryanair B738's conforming with their 25-minute turnaround parameters. I've not seen the plans, but if the walkway is appropriately configured, passengers ought to be able to safely reach stand 58 as well? The work-schedule quoted suggests that the job will be complete around the start of summer schedule (March / April). This potentially means that Ryanair (or similar) could physically base three more B738's at MAN should they choose to do so. At present, 56 / 57 /58 appear to be used for remote-parking of out-of-service aircraft. In the medium term it should be possible to shift this role to stands elsewhere on the airport complex.

 

[Aceshigh]

Interesting that this has come out of the blue. Have minds been exercised at MAG?

 

[David_itl]

Daily to Cologne from the winter timetable

https://bdaily.co.uk/industrials/08...t-manchester-airport-with-new-german-service/

 

[ethanegcc]

Cologne is a good add, but not all that beneficial to MAN. Ryanair seem to be adding new destinations season, by season, though. I am hoping that by 2018, we might see:
Seville (growing RYR base) - large hole in the MAN served destinations
Bucharest - major unserved gap from MAN

In addition, possibly Wroclaw/Gdansk and Leipzig/Dortmund plus Alghero

MAG team must be going after Poland/Romania connectivity now. If not Ryanair, then surely TAROM would be good with an A318. Being in skyteam, they could also use MAN as an alternative connections point with VS/DL transatlantic?

 

[Land23R]

Ryanair already serve Wroclaw and Gdansk. Increased frequency to Warsaw possibly required.

Seville and Bucharest are obvious gaps though. It's a pity Blue Air got in first to Bucharest from LPL but competition hasn't stopped Ryanair in the past from MAN, let alone a competitor airport 30 miles away.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

ethanegcc said:
Bucharest - major unserved gap from MAN

And yet Ryanair operates Bucharest-Bristol (and Stansted as well as a number of non-UK destinations). That is strange. I'm not aware of any particular connection between Bucharest/Romania and the West Country.

 

[Jerry]

And yet Ryanair operates Bucharest-Bristol (and Stansted as well as a number of non-UK destinations). That is strange. I'm not aware of any particular connection between Bucharest/Romania and the West Country.

Only thing i could think of would be farm workers for the arable side of farming. Maybe for the Cider industry or vegetable picking. And any Romanians that live and work in the west country and south wales.

 

[jfy1999]

I am hoping that by 2018, we might see:
Seville (growing RYR base) - large hole in the MAN served destinations

You got your wish Ethan!!

Seville to be launched 2x weekly for winter 2017.

http://corporate.ryanair.com/news/n...n-un-calendario-de-invierno-record/?market=es

 

[ethanegcc]

Great news! This covers a massive short haul hole in the MAN network!

 

[ethanegcc]

'New Manchester Winter Route To Seville Launched.
Ryanair, Europe No.1 airline, today (15 Feb) launched a new route from Manchester to Seville, with a twice weekly service beginning in October as part of its Manchester winter 2017 schedule, which will be launched soon.'
-From RYR's facebook page

Stand alone press release: http://corporate.ryanair.com/news/n...manchester-winter-route-to-seville/?market=en

Can't wait for this one to become bookable! We just need OTP from Ryanair now!

 

[ethanegcc]

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