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Ryanair boost for Edinburgh Airport

New route to Norway and increased number of flights to Germany.

Edinburgh Airport is to offer a new route to Norway from the budget airway Ryair, which bosses hope could mean 45,000 more passengers at the airport every year.

Ryanair unveiled plans to fly the new route to Haugesund on the west coast of Norway. The airline also revealed it is to increase the number of flights to Bremen in Germany.

The announcement means Ryanair will now be flying 29 routes from the city, up from just seven a year ago.

Airport managing director Gordon Dewar said: "It is a huge vote of confidence in the Edinburgh market and a real demonstration of the airline's commitment to the Scottish capital."

Haugesund is home to the Norwegian International Film festival, as well as a jazz festival held in August every year.

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[textarea]Boost for airport as Ryanair unveils eight new routes

RYANAIR today announced that it is to operate eight new routes from Edinburgh Airport to such popular tourist destinations as Barcelona, Gdansk, Oslo and Tenerife.

The low-cost airline is increasing its winter schedule to 26 flights from the Capital, a rise of 42 per cent on last year.

It follows its decision this week to close all but one of its routes from Manchester Airport, in a dispute over airport charges.

It will now carry two million passengers through Edinburgh this year, sustaining 2000 local jobs.

The announcement means that the airport is the fastest growing in the UK.

Ryanair's new schedule is concentrating on winter sun and city breaks, flying to Barcelona (Gerona), Tenerife, Brussels (Charleroi), Gdansk, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Memmingen (Munich West) and Oslo (Torp). It will also be extending its summer routes to Malta and Rome.

The routes are on sale from tomorrow, with the first beginning on 30 October, at prices starting from £10.

Ryanair also announced a sale of one million £4 seats for travel in late September to November, if booked before Sunday.

Lesley Kane, head of sales and marketing, said: "With a total of 26 low fare routes from Edinburgh this winter, passengers can beat the recession by flying at Ryanair's guaranteed lowest fares and no fuel surcharges to exciting destinations all over Europe."

Last winter the airline operated 19 routes out of Edinburgh, with around the same number out of Prestwick.

The managing director of Edinburgh Airport, Gordon Dewar, said: "We are particularly pleased to see new routes to Germany, Spain and Norway, key tourism markets for Scotland, particularly over the Christmas and New Year period. It is great news for the airport and I have no doubt these new services will continue to allow us to buck the trend that has seen traffic decline at most other airports."

The announcement follows Ryanair's decision to close or switch nine of its ten routes at Manchester airport from October. The Irish budget carrier blamed the airport's refusal to lower its charges for the decision, which will mean the loss of up to 600 jobs in the area.

A total of 44 weekly Ryanair flights will stop at Manchester from October 1, with the loss of 60,000 passengers a year.

Ryanair said it had offered Manchester an additional 28 weekly flights and 400,000 new passengers, which would have created 400 new jobs if the airport "reduced its high charges". But it said airport bosses had rejected this offer.

Some of these flights will move to the recently-announced new Ryanair base at Leeds Bradford.

Ryanair has already announced cutbacks in its winter 2009/10 flights at Stansted and Dublin.

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Boost ... 5571924.jp[/textarea]
 
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[textarea]Ryanair wants Scottish Government subsidies

Budget airline Ryanair has called on the Scottish Government to restore a fund aimed at encouraging airlines to open more flight routes. The Route Development Fund (RDF) was scrapped soon after the SNP came to power in 2007. Ryanair's deputy chief executive Michael Cawley met Finance Secretary John Swinney yesterday to ask for the fund to be reintroduced or for a similar fund to be set up.

Mr Cawley said Ryanair could create 1500 new jobs and deliver an extra 1.5 million tourists for the struggling Scots economy. But he said it was vital the Government cede to reintroducing the Route Development Fund before the airline would commit itself.

He said: ‘There is plenty of capacity and infrastructure in place – we just met with the management of Edinburgh Airport and they are increasing the capacity from nine million to 13 million. With the right economic framework, Scotland can grow out of the recession.’

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So Ryanair are hinting that more flights could be on there way if the Scottish Government can cough up some cash. I don't like the idea of airlines been given handouts to provide air services. If an air service can't survive by itself then it shouldn't' exist.
 
I agree entirely with that, Aviador.

I am a firm believer in the free market determining levels in commerce generally. Subsidies can distort things and for every winner there is invariably a loser.

For example, aid to FR from the Scottish Executive at EDI could impact adversely on NCL who wouldn't have the same advantage.

I know that NCL is not an FR base but the principle holds because it might be if there was a level playing field.
 
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Will that be Barcelona or Barcelona (Girona) as Ryanair tend to call it?
 
[textarea]Ryanair criticised for cancelling flights

A row has broken out between Edinburgh Airport and Ryanair after police were called to help deal with angry passengers for the second time in a week, the Evening News reports. Officers helped deal with irate travellers yesterday after the budget airline cancelled three morning flights, blaming a shortage of de-icer.

Passengers on an aircraft bound for Lanzarote said they were told their flight had been cancelled after spending more than three hours on board waiting for take off. The newspapers 'airport sources' said that while de-icer was running low, other airlines had not cancelled flights. They suggested that Ryanair had scrapped services in a bid to get back on schedule with flights later in the day. The newspaper also revealled that earlier last week police had been called to remove passengers from a Ryanair flight to Malaga after it was cancelled.

A Ryanair spokesman told the newspaper: ‘Due to a shortage of de-icing fluid by Edinburgh handling agents, Ryanair was forced to cancel three early morning flights.’ Servisair, the handling agent used by Ryanair, is also used by British Airways and BMI, neither of which cancelled flights.

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So, it's only taken just over a year since the arrival of the airline at EDI and they've fallen out with the airport authority already. :rolleyes:
 
Re: Ryanair cut 25% of flights from Edinburgh

The Scotsman has reported that Ryanair is to cut 25% of flights from Edinburgh airport this winter with cheep flights to Berlin, Malta, Marrakesh, Tallinn and Turin coming to an end. That's a big cut but would the routes have survived through the winter months anyway? Ryanair is renowned for spin and I suspect the routes that are going to be dropped were probably not performing anyway. It seems like an easy option to blame oil prices.
 
Here we go. "oil prices to high" "cheaper to base crew at european bases". Don't pi55 us about. Either be serious about a base, or managment need to do what MAN did and put flags out and waved them off.
 
[textarea]Ryanair Cuts Edinburgh Traffic by 15% From Summer 2012

5 ROUTES, 300,000 PASSENGERS & 300 JOBS LOST BY BAA’S HIGH CHARGES

Ryanair, the world’s favourite airline, today (21st Feb) announced that it would cut its base at Edinburgh from 7 to 6 aircraft, with the loss of 5 routes, 300,000 pax p.a., leading to the loss of up to 300 jobs, following the breakdown of negotiations with the high cost BAA Edinburgh about a competitive cost base for further Ryanair growth at Edinburgh. Ryanair also warned that BAA Edinburgh’s high cost base will lead to significant further cuts in Ryanair’s operation, if its 5 year agreement (which expires in Oct 2012) is not extended on more competitive terms.

These cuts at Edinburgh Airport (including the closure of Berlin, Malmo, Murcia, Ibiza and Tallinn routes) become effective for the summer 2012 schedule (starting April) and will include:

· From 7 to 6 base aircraft (down 15%).
· From 40 to 35 routes (down 13%).
· From 140 to 110 weekly flights (down 21%).
· From 1.8M to under 1.5M pax p.a (down 16%).
· This loss of 300,000 pax p.a. will sustain 300 fewer jobs at Edinburgh Airport.

Ryanair will continue its negotiations with BAA Edinburgh to try to extend its five year agreement on a competitive basis from October 2012, but warned that if these negotiations are unsuccessful, then there will be further significant aircraft, route, traffic and jobs cuts announced at Edinburgh from winter 2012 onwards.[/textarea]

http://www.ryanair.com/en/news/ryanair- ... ummer-2012

Following on from previous posts in this thread about threats to reduce services last year.

I've read elsewhere that some of the routes axed haven't even started yet.

It's a job to know whether this is the usual Ryanair hard bargaining or BAA thinking ahead and wondering how the sale of EDI will affect Glasgow which it will retain.
 
It doesn't seem like two minutes since Ryanair was setting up stall at Edinburgh and they were over the airport like a rash. Today it's a different story with the dispute about charges. Ryanair knows full well the current situation with the sale of Edinburgh airport and the fact that BAA will still own Glasgow. I can't see how the airport can negotiate any long term deal with Ryanair when the airport is going through the process of being sold.
 
[textarea]Ryanair to axe 8 more Edinburgh routes next winter

Ryanair has announced further cuts in its operations at Edinburgh Airport this winter, the BBC reports. The budget airline will axe eight routes and 60 weekly flights from October 2012 including flights to Bratislava, Bremen, Frankfurt, Fuerteventura, Gothenburg, Kaunas, Lodz and Poznan.

In February, Ryanair cut five routes from its summer schedule, after a breakdown in talks with operator BAA over airport charges. The airline claimed the latest cuts would see Edinburgh Airport traffic fall by 500,000 passengers a year and lead to the loss of up to 500 ‘on-site’ jobs. The airport said this claim was 'speculative'.

Ryanair deputy chief executive Michael Cawley said: ‘We regret BAA Edinburgh Airport's rejection of our proposals for a competitive cost base which would allow Ryanair to further grow our traffic and routes for winter 2012 and beyond. Sadly, BAA Edinburgh seems to prefer higher costs, even if it means fewer passengers and jobs at Edinburgh.’

Mr Cawley said that Ryanair remained committed to Edinburgh Airport, with 1.3m passengers and 17 routes planned for next winter. But he added that ‘the BAA Edinburgh monopoly cannot continue to ignore the competitive marketplace, where airports all over the UK and Europe have been reducing costs and lowering charges in return for traffic growth’.

Edinburgh Airport managing director Jim O'Sullivan said: ‘We are disappointed that Ryanair has announced that it will reduce its services from Edinburgh. It was expected as we saw similar cuts in last year's winter schedule. The numbers quoted on any passenger and job impacts are speculative. We have tried extremely hard to negotiate with Ryanair but sadly on many issues have not been able to find common ground. We continue not to be able to accept their wish to not pay the agreed air traffic control costs that all other airlines pay.’

For more information on this airport news story visit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-s ... s-17675604[/textarea]
 
It didn't take long for the Ryanair Edinburgh bubble to burst but could it be a sign of them moving to Glasgow International?
 
"500 jobs will be lost" .. 50 will be lost.

We shall not operate the following routes, you shall only they shall be with the based aircraft from the destination (Frankfurt or should i say a village called hann, Fue).

If you knew how FR operated you'd know this is a false PR alarm. Give the airport negative press not us. Tbh do what MAN and shut the door on them, they soon coming back knocking when they see how much of a party Jet2 and easy are having.
 
Ryanair are stopping flights to Rome for the winter. The Scotsman article say the airline is blaming "the lack of a low-cost deal with Edinburgh Airport and high oil prices".
 

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