Ryanair

[kraktoa]

OK so a first flight this Sunday 28th March !!!

Ryan Air from Alicante. will there be passengers? what type of flight is this?

 

[TheLocalYokel]

OK so a first flight this Sunday 28th March !!!

Ryan Air from Alicante. will there be passengers? what type of flight is this?

It seems from the booking engine that Ryanair is resuming flights to a number of Spanish destinations from BRS next week. CWL has a Vueling flight from/to Alicante today with 40 odd booked one way and 30 odd the other.

I understand that restrictions on UK-Spain travel are being very marginally eased but it seems necessary to have a legitimate reasons with the main ones associated with work. Travelling abroad for holidays is still illegal although there appears to be provision for buying, selling, letting or renting a residential property. Whether that would include a speculative trip to Spain to see if anything is on the market that you might be interested in I have no idea. Imaginative people might manage to get some sort of 'holiday' out of that.

 

[superking]

Getting into Spain will always get some to find a way round it. There is always some one to push the system and see how far they get.This happens when there is restrictions,and its not only aviation.

 

[Marko1]

Malta now not on sale for winter 21

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Malta now not on sale for winter 21

It's still shown in the web booking engine as operating next winter in the sense that two dates each week are in bold lettering but a test booking on these dates shows no flights. It's becoming beyond a joke. Covid or not I'd be reluctant to book with Ryanair at the moment in case they take out the flights after I'd done so for non-pandemic reasons. The removal of Malta from BRS cannot be Covid-related if they are showing booking availability to that island from nine other UK airports.

I've sent a note to BRS asking for their views on the lack of a Malta route for the next two seasons.

 

[Marko1]

The same applies to Sofia as well which has yet to go on sale. No I personally wouldn’t book either with them. Likewise with easyJet , their June schedule looks a mess

 

[Marko1]

Interestingly OnTheBeach has taken Malta and chania off sale

 

[Marko1]

More new routes announced today nothing from Bristol however

 

[Marko1]

Chania on sale every weds

 

[superking]

Chania flight is that this year or next year.

 

[Marko1]

This year

 

[superking]

Thank you Marko1. I had lost track a little what was or not going on.Been ill in bed for 6 days no food for 7 days,and i live on my own so i have no one to call on. Not covid. You stay safe and well.

 

[Marko1]

Hi superking. Hope you are feeling better. Happy Easter

 

[KARFA]

It seems from the booking engine that Ryanair is resuming flights to a number of Spanish destinations from BRS next week. CWL has a Vueling flight from/to Alicante today with 40 odd booked one way and 30 odd the other.

I understand that restrictions on UK-Spain travel are being very marginally eased but it seems necessary to have a legitimate reasons with the main ones associated with work. Travelling abroad for holidays is still illegal although there appears to be provision for buying, selling, letting or renting a residential property. Whether that would include a speculative trip to Spain to see if anything is on the market that you might be interested in I have no idea. Imaginative people might manage to get some sort of 'holiday' out of that.

Yes, it is still very restricted for UK passport holders getting in to Spain. Those without a resident card or having proof of residence prior to 1 January 2021 will just be refused boarding. There is no exemption to enter Spain for house buying etc.

Like any airline, FR are responsible for repatriating passengers refused entry back to the starting point at the airline's cost, and liable for fines on top of that. They won't board anyone not able to enter Spain. I happened to be sat near the gate for the FR flight to MAN this morning and this is exactly what happened, with around half a dozen UK passport holders being refused.

 

[KARFA]

Sorry, should have read - sat at MAN near the gate for the FR flight to ALC this morning.

 

[Marko1]

Second weekly chania now appearing - I wonder if aircraft no5 is coming ?

 

[BRSregular]

Would be good to get some Ryanair good news. I often wonder whether they want to compete with EasyJet and Jet2 at Bristol or will they slowly diminish their presence?

 

[Severn]

Second weekly chania now appearing - I wonder if aircraft no5 is coming ?

Looks like the schedule requires 4x based aircraft on all days except Wed and Sat which require 5x based.
Wed and Sat also happen to be the days that CHQ is scheduled to operate and I'd assume with a little moving of the schedule on these days the base will remain at 4x aircraft. That is unless a reasonably large increase in flights/routes are announced to require aircraft number 5!

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Would be good to get some Ryanair good news. I often wonder whether they want to compete with EasyJet and Jet2 at Bristol or will they slowly diminish their presence?

Ryanair has been fairly static at BRS for the past decade although there has been some growth, especially in the winter seasons from 2014/2015 to 2019/2020 when weekly rotations increased from 53 to 93 and the number of routes from 14 to 27. Summer was more even, although in the three years immediately pre-pandemic there were between 31 and 33 routes and up to 132 weekly rotations which was up a bit on the years before that. Ryanair have had only four based aircraft at BRS most years since 2013 but they have maintained their schedules using aircraft from bases at the 'other end' of routes which amounts to the equivalent of a further three based aircraft at BRS had they all been operated from that end.

easyJet has certainly increased its overall market share at BRS over the past ten years, and at the same time increased its passenger numbers compared with those of Ryanair. This has been especially apparent since 2014 when annual airport passenger numbers rose from 6.333 million that year to 8.959 million in 2019. easyJet's share grew from circa 50% to nearly 60% with the number of based aircraft increasing from 12 to 18. easyJet also operated some BRS route with aircraft from other bases but not to the extent of Ryanair.

To those of us who are BRS-watchers from outside the industry, which means we don't have anything like the full picture and can only try to form some sort of judgement from what information and facts are publicly available, there seems to me to be three particular factors currently dictating the way forward at BRS, viz,

1. The uncertainly over the airport's future passenger capacity

2. The path the pandemic recovery will take

3. The reaction to existing major airport airline partners/customers including Ryanair to the arrival of Jet2

Given BRS's history of being one of the most successful of the smaller UK regional airports this century, arguably the most successful in terms of passenger growth, it's hard to visualise BRS struggling to compete in the aftermath of the pandemic, although a failure to get its passenger cap raised will obviously restrict future growth. It's also been a profitable airport for its owners who have invested hundreds of millions of pounds on infrastructure and other expansion in the past 25 years and plan to continue such investment although it remains to be seen what damage, if any, the pandemic effects will have been caused to this policy. Airlines such as easyJet have also reportedly found the airport to be profitable for them.

So unless the pandemic effects and/or a continuing passenger cap get seriously in the way there must be good reason to expect the airport to be amongst the first to see the post-pandemic good times return as was the case after the major recession of the 'noughties'. What is unknown is the degree to which Ryanair (and the other airlines for that matter) will join in. There might be movement in the 'pecking order' of BRS's airlines measured by volume.

I emphasise these thoughts are from someone outside the industry and others will take a different view.

 

[Marko1]

Chania now back off sale