After having been busy expanding to the Spanish and Italian market, the Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair is ready to enter Eastern-Europe more vigorously.
Ryanair serves a significant number of airports in the eastern part of the continent but as Michael O’Leary reveals, this is only the foretaste of the airline’s East-European growth.
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The famous Irish low-cost airline Ryanair known for e.g. its additional charges policy as well as its pursuit of media attention, will introduce yet another levy from the next week.
The new levy is Ryanair’s response to the new EU emission trading scheme. The cost of the new regulation is estimated to be around 18-20 for Ryanair hence a new fee of 25 euro cents on every seat.
Everyone knows the marketing slogan of the Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair – «The world’s favourite airline» which is more than just a little smug. The airline’s business model with additional charges for every conceivable service and its questionable marketing style is well-known to everybody as well.
But there are things about the functioning of the company few know and it such things that a fascinating documentary entitled «Low cost, journey to the land of wild capitalism» deals with.
Hi aviation enthusiasts. Let us start off the week with with a dose of news about new routes and services from both low-cost airlines and traditional carriers.
We begin with the flag carrier of France. Air France has extended its offer of flights from Marseilles Airport. Now travellers from this airport may fly directly on two news routes: Marseilles – Prague and Marseilles – Eindhoven.
A month without a PR-stunt from Ryanair is a wasted month. As is always the case with this budget carrier, it is about getting attention and money. And as always, the way of getting both is somewhat embarrassing. This time round it is about a new and smelly source of income – on-board toilets.
This Irish low-cost airline has already made an attempt to earn money on on-board toilets. The proposal, which later on was dropped, was to introduce charges for using toilets. Now Ryanair’s O’Leary comes up with a new twist on his toilet business.
Due to their charges and fees policies, low-cost airlines such as Ryanair have compelled travellers to look for ever more resourceful ways of dealing with the increasing charges and fees. One of them is getting a prepaid card.
When it comes to the Irish low-budget carrier Ryanair, having such a card is in fact the only way to avoid the payment fee. Now the Ryanair Cash Passport card is subject to criticism.
After Adria Airways revealed its reduction plans which will impact the traffic to and from Ljubljana Airport, the airport’s authorities spotted an opportunity to keep the passenger numbers on the current level by attracting the Irish low-cost airlines Ryanair.
As some of you may remember, Ryanair has already entered the Slovenian market once but withdrew after some months. The talks may not only help the airport but also result in cheap flights to Ljubljana for UK travellers.
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This month next episode of the series “Ryanair against the rest of the world” is playing out. This time the Irish low-cost airline faces the danger of lawsuit from its Belgian employees.
The way the union sees it, the source of discontent are problems around lacking sick pay provisions and the fact that uniform costs are covered from employees’ salary. Moreover, the trade union points out that transfers of the employees are carried out with little notice.
Sale on airfares! Purchase your flights from as little as €3! O no, wait – suddenly it is more like €30… That is an old story. We all know how it works. We are tempted with a price which is but a fraction of what we end up paying. This may change next year.
This dishonest marketing trend which is a trademark of low-cost airlines has been under harsh criticism for a long time. But until now such low-budget carriers as Ryanair have had no incentive to take the consumer criticism seriously. This may be just about to change.
The summer season has official started and along with it comes the urge to throw it all away, pack some stuff and set off on at least a weekend trip. The evergreen dilemma here is how to fly cheap? Does choosing a one of many low-cost-airlines solve the problem?
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