Ryanair using Airbridge

eusap

This morning i decided to take the new Ryanair to Brussels Zaventem service instead of AL for a change, and the aircraft parked at a gate and we used an Airbridge. It got me thinking in 10 years of using Ryanair 20+ times per year i have never seen one parked using an Airbridge i know the reason why they don't use them but it got me thinking how many airport do they fly into and they use Airbridges and not their on internal steps?

GoodisonPark

They use airbridges in Madrid also.

afatbollix

All part of the new Ryanair trying to hit the business user who want convenience and a quick service.

Should expect it as Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris.

highlydebased

Been using them in Malaga and Gatwick for ages. I remember disembarking on one in Malaga as long ago as 2005...

veetwin

afatbollix wrote: »

All part of the new Ryanair trying to hit the business user who want convenience and a quick service.

Should expect it as Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris.

Ryanair don't fly to Amsterdam, Brussels or Paris and they have been using air bridges at several airports for years. Nothing to do with the new business users. Also air bridges are slower to load and off load which is why Ryanair only use them when they have to.

flazio

It may be an insistence of the relative airport. Might be the only way into the airport.

MuffinsDa

flazio wrote: »

It may be an insistence of the relative airport. Might be the only way into the airport.

FFS OP is flying out of DUB! What airport, what insistence, what only way?!

L1011

veetwin wrote: »

Ryanair don't fly to Amsterdam, Brussels or Paris and they have been using air bridges at several airports for years. Nothing to do with the new business users. Also air bridges are slower to load and off load which is why Ryanair only use them when they have to.

They do fly to Brussels, as the opening post mentions Amsterdam has been applied for in the past

afatbollix

veetwin wrote: »

Ryanair don't fly to Amsterdam, Brussels or Paris and they have been using air bridges at several airports for years. Nothing to do with the new business users. Also air bridges are slower to load and off load which is why Ryanair only use them when they have to.

Sorry they said about it when they launched the business fares.

http://www.expatica.com/nl/news/country-news/Ryanair-hopes-to-fly-from-Schiphol-airport-next-year_435549.html

veetwin

L1011 wrote: »

They do fly to Brussels, as the opening post mentions Amsterdam has been applied for in the past

My apologies. I was not aware that they had flights to BRU.

Crumbs868

MuffinsDa wrote: »

FFS OP is flying out of DUB! What airport, what insistence, what only way?!

Over reaction much? As ryanair don't have air bridges at the terminal they use for the majority of flights from dublin do you think maybe the OP meant he used an air bridge at brussels which could well be a requirement of that airport?

man98

In 2011 I used Ryanair air bridges in Barcelona El Prat on both legs of the flight.

elastico

A few years ago I was on a Ryanair flight into Shannon and they used the airbridge that Aer Lingus used to use on LHR flights.

rubberdiddies

Ryanair decreased significantly it's schedule at Alicante airport a couple of years ago due to the insistence of AENA for them to use airbridges due to 'safety' concerns, or what a cynic like me might consider 'extra revenue for AENA'.

AENA allow ryanair to not use airbridges at most of their other Spanish airports. Not sure what the outcome was of this, but Ryanair claim that Alicante airport lost approximately 1million passengers as a result.

I have flown Ryanair to Alicante a number of times recently. Sometimes we are allowed to walk off the aircraft onto a bus, which actually brought us directly to the baggage hall without having to go through passport control (this has happened a few times).

Othertimes we have had to use the airbridge. There definately seemed to be a longer loading time using the airbridge imo.

MuffinsDa

eusap wrote: »

This morning i decided to take the new Ryanair to Brussels Zaventem service instead of AL for a change

Crumbs868 wrote: »

As ryanair don't have air bridges at the terminal they use for the majority of flights from dublin

He said he was flying to Zaventem and using Ryanair instead of AL, the only way those two conditions can be satisfied is on a Ryanair flight from DUB to BRU. If he meant something else, I don't know! But I presume that's why he was specially surprised as it's fairly unprecedented for FR to use air bridges in DUB, hence his post!

Cessna_Pilot

"the aircraft parked at a gate and we used an Airbridge"

They used the airbridge at BRU.

roundymac

A lot of people seemed to have got out of bed on the wrong side this morning or else they need to go to specsavers.:(

MuffinsDa

Cessna_Pilot wrote: »

"the aircraft parked at a gate and we used an Airbridge"

They used the airbridge at BRU.

Ooops. I see now. My mistake, I stand corrected. I assumed he meant when the aircraft parked at the gate in Dublin, but it's more likely that he meant when it actually parked prior to disembarkation.

Zonda999

How were the loads on the flights OP? I thought initially that 3 daily ex DUB to BRU, along with EI's frequencies was going to be overkill

eusap

Sorry i meant they used the Airbridge at BRU and not at DUB

Zonda999 wrote: »

How were the loads on the flights OP? I thought initially that 3 daily ex DUB to BRU, along with EI's frequencies was going to be overkill

My boarding pass had Seq 167 on it so i guess i was the 167th passenger, the loads seem to be good but they also pulled some services to Brussels South so some traffic may be that. For me the flight back to dub at 8pm is great compared to waiting till 9pm for AL