santos From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2007, 711 posts, RR: 0 Posted (11 months 2 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 6047 times:
14 routes (including 3 new routes) & 450,000 PAX P.A. at Ryanair's 1st Dutch base.
'Ryanair, Europe’s only ultra-low cost airline, today (3 July) announced it would open its 51st base (1st Dutch base) at Maastricht in December 2012 with one based aircraft and unveiled 3 new routes (14 in total), to Dublin, London and Treviso, which will deliver over 450,000 passengers p.a. and sustain over 450 “on-site” jobs as Ryanair invests over $70 million at the privately-owned Maastricht Airport.'
Alicante, Barcelona-Girona, Bari, Dublin-NEW, Faro, London Stansted-NEW, Malaga, Milan-Bergamo, Palma, Porto, Pisa, Tenerife, Trapani, Venice Treviso-NEW
kl911 From Ireland, joined Jul 2003, 4993 posts, RR: 13 Reply 1, posted (11 months 2 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 5897 times:
Wow!! Very good news for The Netherlands, and ofcourse large parts of germany and Belgium. I
just came back yesterday, having had 4 flights with Ryanair BUD - BGY - GRQ vv ), and they are getting better and better.
Just dont expect more then a seat and you will have a good flight.
Personally I was hoping for EIN to become a base, Maastricht is too far away for me. And maybe Groningen..... 3 flights at the moment, who knows.... The GRQ-BGY had more then 140 pax both ways.
bwvilla From Germany, joined Jan 2008, 67 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (11 months 2 weeks 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 5218 times:
"ultra-low cost"
Crikey!
Are there some general criteria for what makes an airline ultra-low cost, or is Maastrict airport just parroting something that Ryanair invented themselves?
shamrock350 From Ireland, joined Mar 2005, 6124 posts, RR: 15 Reply 6, posted (11 months 2 weeks 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 5136 times:
Nice to see Dublin among the new routes!
Quoting Pe@rson (Reply 4):
Actually, FR doesn't refer to itself as an ultra-low-cost carrier, but some, such as NK, do.
All the most recent press releases from Ryanair have started with "Europe’s only ultra-low cost airline" even today's press release about their latest sale does.
"Ryanair, Europe’s only ultra-low cost airline, announced that from midnight (24:00hrs) tonight, Mon 2 July, it will release 100,000 seats at fares from £12.99 for travel on Mon, Tue, Wed & Thur in July, August and September."
Pe@rson From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2001, 18883 posts, RR: 54 Reply 9, posted (11 months 2 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 4599 times:
Quoting bwvilla (Reply 8): To pe@rsons point about it being apt to describe themselves as ultra-low cost, how does the CASK of FR stack up against U2, etc?
All converted into USD (for a different project) and examples and with average sector lengths (ASL) provided in km:
Ryanair: $0.041 - 1,170km
easyJet $0.074 - 1,110km
Jet2: $0.063 - 2,003km
Norwegian: $0.083 - 1,648km
Blu-Express: $0.09 (largely due to far shorter average sectors) - 768km
Blue Air: $0.072- 1,625km
Vueling: $0.083 - 867km
"Everyone writing for the Telegraph knows that the way to grab eyeballs is with Ryanair and/or sex."
bwvilla From Germany, joined Jan 2008, 67 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (11 months 2 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 4503 times:
Quoting Pe@rson (Reply 9):
Quoting bwvilla (Reply 8):
To pe@rsons point about it being apt to describe themselves as ultra-low cost, how does the CASK of FR stack up against U2, etc?
All converted into USD (for a different project) and examples and with average sector lengths (ASL) provided in km:
Thijs1984 From Netherlands, joined Mar 2007, 50 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (11 months 2 weeks 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 3262 times:
Quoting kl911 (Reply 1): Personally I was hoping for EIN to become a base
FR will only open a base in EIN when the evening and weekend restrictions are lifted.
Rotterdam was also in the picture. But given the lack of available capacity Versus high price of the available slots resulted in FR Choosing for MST as their 1st Dutch Base
Bralo20 From Belgium, joined May 2008, 587 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (11 months 2 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 2889 times:
Quoting fcogafa (Reply 14): What city will they associate this with for advertising? Maastricht-Amsterdam? Maastricht-Dusseldorf? Maastricht-Luxembourg? Maastrict-Brussels?......
kl911 From Ireland, joined Jul 2003, 4993 posts, RR: 13 Reply 16, posted (11 months 2 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 2685 times:
Quoting fcogafa (Reply 14): What city will they associate this with for advertising? Maastricht-Amsterdam? Maastricht-Dusseldorf? Maastricht-Luxembourg? Maastrict-Brussels?......
They already had 11 routes out of Maastricht - Aachen Airport. Both cities are well known so I dont think it will change.
besides, its not Ryanair choosing Stockholm Skavska or Frankfurt Hahn, but the airport itself.
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