Ryanair possible base closures

[atuk]

[quote=atuk post_id=934 time=<a href="tel:1593759475">1593759475</a> user_id=75]No TUI bases in ABZ and EDI, leaving GLA in situ with perhaps much more non based flying covering BFS too. Something I have mooted for years as it would concentrate operations in one airport serving many others. Just like TUI Germany and Belgium already do.

Just looking into the Belgian operations. Whilst the crew seem to be all BRU based, there are nightstoping aircraft at Charleroi, Liege, Antwerp, Ostend, Lille and Paris (and also in Morocco). So from a capacity perspective, no obvious difference compared to having crew bases at these airports. Presumably the efficiencies of one large crew base outweigh what must be a very large taxi bill! If that exact model was applied in Scotland, ABZ and EDI would keep 'their' aircraft, with the 'benefit' for GLA being additional crew to support the ABZ & EDI nightstoppers
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Hi Humberside

Last summer TUB operated numerous W pattern flights from BRU and CRL through PMI.

By basing everything at GLA and NCL W pattern flights can cover ABZ, BFS and EDI slipping crews after a two sector day. The inside legs of the W pattern would see mid afternoon, early evening arrivals and departures. Just like TCX did on the ABZ-TFS and DLM and EDI-AYT routes operated by GLA staff and as TUI already do with the ABZ aircraft which normally operated in GLA and NCL on five days a week.

[Humberside]

Fair enough if that is your suggestion, and if TUI do that sort of operation to some extent in Belgium. However the predominant way TUI serve their Belgian regional airports is with nightstopping aircraft at the regional airports.

[atuk]

Fair enough if that is your suggestion, and if TUI do that sort of operation to some extent in Belgium. However the predominant way TUI serve their Belgian regional airports is with nightstopping aircraft at the regional airports.

They do both. One very interesting fact I discovered last summer is the number one destination for TUIfly from Germany is Heraklion. Condor is still split evenly between Antalya and Palma although heaven only knows what will be left for any leisure airline by the end of summer 2020.

[PiperOne]

Whatever the EDI base future is, they managed 21 departures yesterday, with 6 based aircraft employed as well as non-based flights from themselves, and their lower-cost offshoots.

Down at PIK they managed 4 departures as well, at GLA Charleroi resumed, as well as a Dublin.

Ryanair are definitely quicker than anyone else at getting back up and running, what the loads and revenues are like is maybe an altogether different matter.

[Bearsden]

Ryanair are definitely quicker than anyone else at getting back up and running, what the loads and revenues are like is maybe an altogether different matter.

Agreed, Ryanair appear to be willing to speculate to accumulate . . . . . but for how long as I suspect loads are very low

Many sector fares are below £30.00, some to Dublin are down at £19.99 (£14.99 from EDI . . now I wonder where in the cost base Ryanair can save £5?)

[Clive]

Any more on the possibility of FR closing their PIK base?

[atuk]

Any more on the possibility of FR closing their PIK base?

Probably more news mid to late July.

[Clive]

Any more on the possibility of FR closing their PIK base?

Probably more news mid to late July.

Thanks.

[Gla1]

Edinburgh 2021 starting to go on sale but no sign of PIK, get that base moved up to GLA I say.

[GKirk]

Edinburgh 2021 starting to go on sale but no sign of PIK, get that base moved up to GLA I say.

PIK on sale