works at Beauvais, planes go where?

rugbyman

Am an occasional visitor to this Forum and a keen observer of scheduling.
Have travelled Ryanair ,work and holidays for years.
On the for or five occasions that late evening flights have been cancelled, like at Beauvais e.g. I used wonder why we did not just board the plane next morning. I found that Ryanair fly it empty to where its meant to be next morning and all goes on from there.

I know that Ryanair have no planes based in France and therefore there are no really early departures ex France.

However todays question is,
since Beauvais has big works happening, closing the airport for three or four days, what will Ryanair do with those planes. I realise they are individual planes which fly in and out of Beauvais from various other bases .

So will they just skip a few flights on the schedule of up to 20 planes fro m the various bases which would have sent them in.

Any info?

Regards

highlydebased

Beauvais works off what are known as "W" rotations which is as you suggest, flights are operated by aircraft from other bases, put simply.

They seem to not be operating any flights to Beauvais at all for the duration of the works

mr.anonymous

The aircraft do positioning flights back to their bases to be ready for the next day's flights.

I'm not sure exactly what Ryanair did in this case, but airlines can cancel flights in advance. If they have enough notice they don't have to compensate passengers. There are EU regulations on this.

As was said, the aircraft operate W patterns. An aircraft, for example, could start at its base in Dublin, fly to Manchester, go to Madrid, back to Manchester then Dublin. This would be instead of a back and forth pattern between two airports.

What are they doing in Beauvais that requires closing the aerodrome for a few days?!

rugbyman

Thank you both. Firstly , I dont know what works are happening, must be major.

I came across this when i tried to book a flight. suspecting a glitch ,waited a day, got some one in another country to check, then checked from Milan e.g. all stopped.

While new Ryanair site is superb, the old one would inform you of runway works etc.

Well, there is a departure for Beauvais virtually every morning and every evening ex Dublin. So ,my question is did the aircraft scheduled for 0630 departure this morning ex Dublin just sit there on the tarmac.

in case I am not asking this properly, and Since Ryanair knew for ages of this four day gap, were the ,say 20 planes,normally flying in to Beauvais from Scotland,Italy, Spain (etc) which would have been in use today, used somewhere.

Regards

LXFlyer

There is a travel updates page, accessible via the "Useful Info" tab at the top of the homepage.

http://ryanair.ie/ie/travel-updates/

If the airport is shut, I'd imagine that the aircraft will remain on the ground in their respective bases or additional flights to other destinations will be organised.