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Ryanair Ops - positioning craft.

  • 27-01-2017 4:38pm
    #1
    LiamaDelta
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    Just wondering if anyone could give a general overview of how Ryanair operations work in terms of how they position their aircraft and rotate them from other bases. I've noticed that the new deliveries usually start off in DUB but then get rotated to other bases. Would this planned or is it operated in a more flexible way.

    Also often you'd see an aircraft do a sector to another base and then a different plane used for the return leg - presumably this is planned as it may need maintenance at Dublin? Do these things get planned very far in advance or is it only in the few days leading up to it that the replacement may be decided (I understand that the maintenance schedule is fixed but deciding which sector it comes back on may vary?)

    Finally in a large base like Dublin, are aircraft just assigned to their next outbound sector when they arrive back in (and based on crew hours). If an inbound is delayed and they do a swap is there a was of limiting its effect on other aircraft and crews?

    I mainly ask re Ryanair as they have the largest fleet and have other bases etc. I understand how it can work for an airline like EI that have pretty much everything based in Dublin.


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  • #2
    Locker10a
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    While I'm not up to scratch on current ryanair ops, I would imagine its not changed much or much different to elsewhere. 
     As you say yourself certain maintenance is planned well in advance, other stuff may occur that means unplanned maintenance and unplanned positioning to a maintenance base. I understand Stansted to be be Ryanair's maintenance base, however I'm sure work is also done in Dublin.
    Aircraft swaps are planned by ops, which is generally 2/3 people sitting in a operations control room 24/7 monitoring the operation of the whole airline. They would receive requests for what aircraft needs maintenance etc. and then plan how to get said aircraft to necessary airport. This is often done on the day, however is generally better planned, often the crew are aware but no-one has told ground staff so there is chaos with last minute gate changes etc. 
    Each aircraft has a plan for the day e.g. EI-xxx is penciled in to operate 4 sectors DUB-xxx-DUB-xx-DUB over the course of a day. If it is severely delayed on the first sector, and this will cause disruption to the later flights, IF there is leeway to get another aircraft and IF there is available standby crew then operations will try to minimise delays this way. However during busy summer schedules this can be difficult as there tends to be no free aircraft.


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