Ryanair cutting flights ex Dublin

BendiBus

http://www.rte.ie/business/2008/0715/ryanair.html

Projections for growth at Dublin Airport may need a lot of downward revision if oil prices stay high and the economy stays in the doldrums.

MOH

Go RTE News.

Wasn't this the Metro front-page story about 3 weeks ago?

darkman2

I think Micheal O Leary has gone insane. He is just having a hissy fit now over terminal 2 and his idea of what Dublin Airport should be (a shed to rush the cattle through, preferably a Ryanair terminal). Does he honestly think because Ryanair will reduce its capacity this Winter that passengers who want to come to Dublin wont come? This wont harm Aer Lingus anyway which im sure will be more then pleased with the extra numbers. The numbers lost from Ryanair - alot of that will be made up by competitors. I think he is losing the plot. Then again his shareholders must think the same after he went after Aer Lingus:rolleyes:


As for less numbers going through the airport. He says he expects a fall. Yet Dublin Airport numbers are increasing by over 1 million per year. Even if 500,000 were not to fly due to Ryanairs decision (which is very unlikely) - I dont know how he comes to the conclusion passenger numbers will fall next year. The increase may be down though.

DAA press release

DAA Rains Some Facts on Ryanair's Latest Colourful Parade

The Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) wishes to respond to Ryanair's latest colourful communication with some relevant facts.



Dublin Airport's maximum airport charge of just under €7.40 per journey is amongst the lowest of all major European Airports. Dublin Airport is now Europe's eighth busiest international airport and is not comparable to the remote former airfields to which Ryanair largely flies.

Dublin Airport's maximum airport charge per journey amounts to less than half the €15 cost of checking in one bag on a Ryanair flight at Dublin Airport.

Dublin Airport's maximum airport charge per journey amounts to less than 75% of the credit card handling charge per passenger for a Ryanair return flight.

Dublin Airport's maximum airport charge per journey is only slightly higher than the €5.49 per passenger journey, Ryanair charges for "insurance" against terrorism attacks.

Airport charges at Dublin Airport are paid by passengers and not by Ryanair or any other airline. Airlines pass this charge fully to passengers' via their airline tickets.

The airport charge at Dublin Airport helps to cover all the Airport's operational costs, including a 24-hour fire brigade service, nearly 700 passenger security employees and up to 100 customer care employees. The airport charge also partly pays for the €2bn investment programme underway at Dublin Airport.

Ryanair pays a rental charge of €25,000 per year for each check-in desk at Dublin Airport, or total of €750,000 per year. Ryanair generates approximately €40m per annum from check-in and baggage charges at Dublin Airport's check-in desks. The €25,000 charge per check-in desk represents less than half the full cost of providing these desks and their IT and baggage handling support systems.

The DAA is disappointed when any airline announces plans to reduce traffic at Dublin Airport. The DAA believes strongly that Ryanair's own business environment has influenced its announcement today and not the competitive charges on offer at Dublin Airport, from where six new Ryanair routes have been launched to date this year.

The combination of a sharp economic slowdown in many of its key markets, its own failure to provide hedge against historically high oil prices and its heavily loss-making investment in Aer Lingus are the key factors driving this decision to consolidate seasonal schedules and not airport charges, which are paid fully by the airline's passengers.

Ryanair's own recent statements have acknowledged that the scale of the impact of current oil prices alone is sufficient to eliminate the airline's current year profits. In this context, the competitive charges at Dublin Airport paid for by the airline's passengers, are of marginal significance.

The DAA is fully aware of the impact of the current economic environment on all its key customers. As a fully commercial business, its own commercial revenues and operational costs have also been impacted by slowing economic activity and higher energy and other costs.



The DAA will continue to work closely with all its airline customers to try to identify appropriate support for their services in a very difficult aviation environment. Any such support can only be agreed in the context of the DAA's own challenging commercial and investment requirements and, under EU rules, must be fully transparent and available to all airlines at Dublin Airport. The DAA also continues to evaluate all its costs rigorously.

The DAA can confirm that Ryanair has recently sought support for some of its winter services at Dublin Airport on a seemingly exclusive and non-commercial basis. The DAA finds it ironic that Ryanair, the so-called champion of competition, complains publicly when its request for anti-competitive support mechanisms, are justly declined. The DAA is responding to correspondence from Ryanair this week, seeking support under current route incentive schemes for routes the airline plans to launch this winter.

Chris_533976

I think the word "OWNED" comes to mind

parsi

About time that folk responded to Ryanairs press releases in similar fashion - if nothing else it will level the PR playing field and the boys can slug it out..

Now all we need is for every tuppenny rag to carry the DAA release and not just Ryanairs.

dmeehan

MOH wrote: »

Go RTE News.

Wasn't this the Metro front-page story about 3 weeks ago?

exactly what I was thinking, this was announced weeks ago, looks like its Ryanair trying to drum up some free publicity at the expense of daa

lostexpectation

is that really a daa press release. they don't need to be like that.

Random

lostexpectation wrote: »

is that really a daa press release. they don't need to be like that.

Course they do. Less bull**** and more to the point. It's how it should be in the PR world.

therecklessone

lostexpectation wrote: »

is that really a daa press release. they don't need to be like that.

They need to fight fire with fire.

Ryanair turn every single press release/event into a slagging match, they take aim at everyone and then sit back and enjoy the free publicity. It's time O'Leary's spin was challenged.

darkman2

Stansted is getting it worse

Ryanair to cut Stansted flights

Ryanair is not alone in having to deal with higher operational costs
Ryanair, the budget Irish airline, has said it will cut about 250 flights from Stansted this winter as it tries to offset higher fuel and airport costs.

It also will suspend flights to seven other European airports in nations including Hungary, Poland, and Austria. Ryanair said flights from Stansted will drop to less than 1,600 in the winter of 2008-2009, a reduction of about 14%.

The cuts would see it carry about 900,000 fewer passengers and trim its Stansted fleet to 28 planes from 36.

On Wednesday, Ryanair said that it was also cutting flights from Dublin.

The airline said it was cutting the number of aircraft it had in the Irish capital by almost a fifth and the number of flights by 12%.

Ryanair's shares climbed by 3.6% to 3.03 euros in Dublin.

The company's winter season runs from October to March.

Between 4 November and 19 December it will suspend flights to airports at Basel in Switzerland, Budapest in Hungary, Krakow and Rzeszow in Poland, Palma and Valencia in Spain, and Salzburg in Austria