21 New Routes Including Casablanca, Kiev, Moscow, Tunis & Zurich Now On Sale On Ryanair.Com

 Ryanair, Malta’s No.1 airline, today (21 Aug) announced a new flight partnership with Air Malta, which will allow Ryanair’s 139m customers to book Air Malta flights on the Ryanair.com website. From today, Maltese customers can browse and book Air Malta flights on 21 new routes from Malta to 8 different countries across Africa, Asia and Europe, including Russia and Tunisia.

This new Air Malta partnership is the latest initiative delivered under Ryanair’s “Always Getting Better” customer experience programme. Ryanair already offers 53 routes to/from Malta and will deliver 2.7m annual customers.

In Malta, Ryanair CCO David O’Brien said:

“We are pleased to announce this exciting partnership with Air Malta, which allows our 139m customers to browse and book flights on 21 new routes from Malta to exciting cities in Austria, Czechia, Israel, Morocco, Russia, Switzerland, Tunisia and Ukraine, in addition to over 300 existing destinations available on the Ryanair.com website, the world’s largest travel website, which receives over 50m unique visitors every month.

This partnership is the latest AGB enhancement as we continue our journey to becoming the ‘Amazon of travel.’ Ryanair offers 53 routes to/from Malta, and now our customers can enjoy even more routes, making Ryanair.com the ideal choice for families, leisure travel and business customers.

To celebrate we are releasing seats for sale from €14.99 for travel from September until October 2018, which are available for booking by midnight Thursday (23 Aug). Since these amazing low fares will be snapped up quickly, customers should log onto www.ryanair.com and avoid missing out.”

Air Malta’s Chairman Dr Charles Mangion said:

“This is a landmark agreement were both airlines are cooperating together for the benefit of their mutual customers. Over the last year Air Malta has made significant improvements not only to expand its network of destinations with more frequencies and destinations but also changing its product in terms of fare structure and onboard service. This agreement will also help Air Malta increase its visibility in overseas markets and tap into new revenue streams. We look forward to further cooperation between the two airlines for the benefit of our clients”.

Dr Konrad Mizzi, Malta’s Minister for Tourism said:

“This strategic initiative is an important development which will give Air Malta access to a new sales channel. This partnership will further accelerate Air Malta’s growth strategy and ambitions.”

 VC Refuse To Give 7 Days’ Notice Of Strike So Ryanair Can Minimize Customer Disruption

– Affected customers will be notified by 3pm on Wednesday (8 Aug) and can take refund, free move or reroute.

– This strike is unnecessary when Ryanair has already sent VC a revised proposal (on Friday 3 August) on a Collective Labour Agreement.

– Ryanair calls on VC to meet and continue meaningful negotiations rather than call strikes.

The VC pilot union has called for a strike at Ryanair airports in Germany on Friday, 10^th August 2018, forcing Ryanair to cancel 250 out of over 2,400 flights scheduled to operate that day.

Customers affected by these unnecessary cancellations will be contacted by email and SMS text message this afternoon (8 Aug) before 3pm and advised of their options of a refund, free move on to the next available flight or reroute. Flight operations are scheduled to resume normal services on Saturday 11 August 2018.

Ryanair’s Kenny Jacobs said:

“We regret the decision of the VC to go ahead with this unnecessary strike action given that we sent through a revised proposal on a Collective Labour Agreement (on Fri 3 Aug) and stated our intention to work towards achieving a CLA together. We also invited VC to meet us on Tuesday (7 Aug) but they did not respond to this invitation.

Our pilots in Germany enjoy excellent working conditions. They are paid up to €190,000 p.a. and, as well as additional benefits, they received a 20% pay increase at the start of this year. Ryanair pilots earn at least 30% more than Eurowings and 20% more than Norwegian pilots.

We asked VC to provide us with at least 7 days’ notice of any planned strike action so that we could notify our customers of cancelled flights in advance and offer them alternative flights or refunds, but they have refused to do this and instead call an unnecessary strike in Germany in just two days’ time. 

Ryanair is ready to continue these negotiations (as confirmed by our Aug 3 proposal). We again call on the VC to remove the threat of an unjustified and unnecessary strike, to commit to providing reasonable (7 days) notice of strike action and to accept our invitations to meet for meaningful negotiations on a CLA for our German pilots and minimise disruption to German customers. 

Ryanair is now forced to cancel 250 flights of over 2,400 flights scheduled to operate on Friday 10 August. We apologise to our customers for this unnecessary strike and regrettable disruption.”

Ryanair, compania aeriană Nr. 1 a Europei, a lansat astăzi, 7 august, o nouă rută din București către Pescara, în Italia. Noua rută vor fi operată cu o frecvență de două zboruri săptămânale începând cu sfârșitul lunii octombrie, și este parte a programului de iarnă 2018 Ryanair din București.

Clienții români și vizitatorii se pot bucura acum de tarife mai mici și de ultimele îmbunătățiri ale programului “Always Getting Better” care include:

• Tarife reduse pentru bagajele înregistrate – o taxă mai mică de 25€ pentru un bagaj de 20kg
• Ryanair Rooms cu 10% în Credit de Călătorie
• Ryanair Transfers – opțiuni lărgite de transport terestru cu noul partener Car Trawler
• Promisiunea punctualității – 90% dintre zborurile noastre vor fi la timp
• Promisiunea de preț – găsește un tarif mai mic și îți vom returna diferența + 5€ în contul My Ryanair

 

Rută nouă	Frecvență	Start
București – Pescara	2 x săptămână	30 octombrie

 

Olga Pawlonka, Ryanair, a declarat:

“Suntem încântați să lansăm această rută nouă din București către Pescara, în Italia. Noul serviciu va fi operat cu o frecvență de două zboruri săptămânale începând cu sfârșitul lunii octombrie, ca parte a programului nostru Iarna 2018 București.

Pentru a sărbători scoatem la vânzare locuri promoționale de la doar 26.99€ pentru călătorii în noiembrie, acestea fiind disponibile pentru rezervări până la miezul nopții, Joi, 9 august. Pentru că se vor vinde rapid, dar și pentru a nu rata această promoție specială, clienții trebuie să se grăbească și să acceseze www.ryanair.com pentru rezervări.”

Today (Fri 3 Aug) 25% of Ryanair’s Irish pilots are holding a 4^th strike, which has had no effect since only 20 of Ryanair’s 300 flights to/from Ireland today were cancelled over 7 days ago, and all 3,500 customers (of the 430,000 travelling with Ryanair today) were re-accommodated or refunded last weekend. Ryanair has to date held 2 meetings with Forsa and our pilots stretching over 9 hours of discussions. In that time, 11 seniority issues were raised by the pilots and Ryanair has broadly agreed 9 of them. Of their two outstanding issues, FORSA have refused to engage or explain them, and appear determined to generate a dispute in order to justify repeated unnecessary strike action.

On Mon July 30^th, Ryanair invited FORSA to meet on any date after the strike on Fri 3^rd August. FORSA replied on 2^ndAugust ignoring the invitation to meet and instead notified Ryanair of another (5^th) strike by 25% of Irish pilots on Fri 10 Aug next. This irresponsible action, designed to cause the maximum damage to Ryanair, more disruption and harm to its passengers, is indicative of FORSA’s agenda, which is not to seek a resolution of Ryanair pilots actual concerns, but rather to advantage its competitors and in particular Aer Lingus. In fact it is quite clear that this agenda is being driven by amongst others an Aer Lingus pilot Capt. Evan Cullen who appears to be controlling the FORSA agenda.

Ryanair has engaged successfully with pilot unions in the UK, Italy, and Spain whose ideas and issues enable us to grow and maintain a successful Airline.  Yet this same Aer Lingus pilot Evan Cullen has in the last number of days sought to contact various stock brokers and airline analysts offering to “discuss the issues in greater detail” in order to influence the Ryanair share price.

It is bizarre that FORSA who in the main represent middle and lower ranking Irish public service workers, many of whom are the very people who avail of Ryanair’s low fares, are instead pandering to a handful of Aer Lingus pilots who don’t wish to see progress in Ryanair and who have hijacked the FORSA negotiations process in an attempt to wreck the Ryanair business model and presumably return to the old days when high Aer Lingus fares meant only the wealthy could avail of air travel.

Ryanair’s Chief People Officer Eddie Wilson said:

“Given the non-engagement by FORSA, and in particular the manipulation of the discussions by certain Aer Lingus pilots to ensure that no meetings take place, that unsuccessful strikes keep repeating, Ryanair now feels the only way to introduce common sense is by way of third party mediation, and to this end is suggesting Mr. Kieran Mulvey formerly of the Labour Commission and Workplace Relations Commission. His background and experience could be a positive influence. We now call on FORSA to accept Mr Mulvey as a 3^rd party mediator, an initiative FORSA have repeatedly called for in recent weeks.”

Ryanair Calls Again On FORSA To Remove Aer Lingus Pilots Interference From This Dispute

Ryanair today (2 Aug) deeply regrets FORSA’s unexplained notice of a 5^th strike (by just 25% of Irish pilots) on Friday 10^th August next, as FORSA again rejected Ryanair’s repeated offers to meet to resolve this dispute on Tues 7 Aug next. Ryanair has already published details of FORSA’s 11 requirements, 9 of which have been agreed.

Last Monday (30 July) Ryanair invited FORSA and its Pilot Committee to meet on Sat 4^th Aug (or early next week) to discuss FORSA’s 11 requirements as a way to resolve this dispute without further customer disruption. Ryanair renewed this invitation on Wed 1 Aug, and offered to meet FORSA at Dublin Airport at 11am on Tues 7^th Aug. Rather than accept these invitations to meet (which FORSA have repeatedly called for), FORSA have now called a 5^th strike for Fri 10^th Aug, which will needlessly disrupt another 3,500 Irish customers.

This 5^th unnecessary strike proves that FORSA have no interest in meeting Ryanair. Even at the 2 meetings already held (over 9 hours) they showed no interest in negotiating with Ryanair. The gap between the sides is narrow given that Ryanair has already agreed to 9 of FORSA’s 11 requirements, and yet FORSA keep calling unnecessary strikes, to disrupt Irish customers during the peak travel period. Ryanair believes that this is because FORSA are not in control of the process, it is being driven by a tiny handful of Aer Lingus pilots who are now working with other pilot unions across Europe to co-ordinate a day of disruption on Fri 10^th Aug next. Ryanair again calls on FORSA to remove these Aer Lingus pilots from the process since they have no interest in meeting or resolving this dispute, they just want to damage Ryanair’s business and our share price for the benefit of Aer Lingus.

Since a 5^th strike has now been called, Ryanair’s offer to meet on Tues next is pointless (there is no point meeting FORSA while Aer Lingus pilots are organising repeated strikes). Ryanair will now notify another 3,500 Irish passengers of 20 further flight cancellations next Fri 10^th Aug, and Ryanair will work over the coming days to re-accommodate those disrupted passengers, to whom we sincerely apologise.

Ryanair’s CMO Kenny Jacobs said:

“This 5^th strike notice by FORSA is irresponsible, unwarranted and is disrupting customers and (a way of damaging) Ryanair’s business and our share price. FORSA has called for meetings with Ryanair, yet during each of the last 2 weeks when Ryanair has invited FORSA to meet, FORSA has rejected these invitations and instead called a 4^th strike tomorrow (3^rd Aug), and now a 5^th strike (next Fri 10^th Aug).

In most unions where 4 strikes have failed to have any effect, the unions and employer would be entering negotiations to resolve the dispute. In this case, after 4 days of unsuccessful strikes, a handful of Aer Lingus pilots are working behind the scenes with pilot unions in Sweden, Holland, Belgium, and Germany to further disrupt Ryanair’s business and our customers next Fri 10 Aug.

FORSA should now explain why they repeatedly call for meetings, and yet when Ryanair went to 2 meetings, no progress has been made because the Pilots Committee and FORSA spent the majority of the time outside the room consulting with Aer Lingus pilots.

Even when Ryanair invites FORSA to meetings, FORSA rejects the invitation and calls more strikes. FORSA should explain why another 3,500 Irish customers will have their flights and holidays next Fri 10 Aug disrupted when FORSA have refused not 1, but 2 invitations to meet with Ryanair to resolve this dispute. FORSA should also explain why, when Ryanair has agreed 9 of their 11 requirements, they call more strikes rather than negotiate.

Ryanair’s problem in this dispute is that FORSA are not in charge. It is being driven by a tiny handful of Aer Lingus pilots. Until FORSA removes these Aer Lingus pilots from the process, more strikes are inevitable, and more customers will have their flights unnecessarily disrupted for the benefit of Aer Lingus and other flag carrier airlines in Sweden, Belgium, Germany and Holland.

We apologise sincerely to the 3,500 Irish customers whose flights next Fri 10 Aug will be disrupted because FORSA won’t meet us to resolve this dispute, even though we have agreed 9 of FORSA’s 11 requirements.

FORSA must remove Aer Lingus pilots from this process since they are intent on damaging Ryanair’s business and our share price for the benefit of Aer Lingus.”

Belægningen Forbliver Uændret På 97% Med Lave Priser

Ryanair, Europas foretrukne flyselskab, udgav i dag (d. 2. august) statistik for julitrafikken:

• Trafikken voksede 4% til 13,1 mio. kunder
• Mangel på ATC-personale, ugunstige vejrforhold og unødvendige strejker fra piloter og kabinebesætninger resulterede i mere end 1.000 flyaflysninger i juli sammenlignet med bare 23 flyaflysninger i juli sidste år.
• Rullende årlige trafik til juli voksede 7% til 133,5 mio. Kunder

	Juli ‘17	Juli ‘18	Ændring
Kunder	12,6 mio.	13,1 mio.	+4%
Belægning	97%	97%	–

Ryanairs Kenny Jacobs sagde:

“Ryanairs julitrafik voksede med 4% til 13,1 mio. kunder, imens vores belægning forblev stærk på 97% på grund af lave priser.

Desværre har flere end 200.000 Ryanair-kunder oplevet flyaflysninger i juli på grund af gentagne mangel på ATC-personale i Storbritannien, Tyskland og Frankrig, ugunstige vejrforhold og unødvendige strejker fra piloter og kabinebesætninger.

Ryanair, sammen med andre europæiske flyselskaber, opfordrer til, at EU-kommissionen og de europæiske regeringer straks addresserer konsekvensen af denne mangel på ATC-personale som forstyrrer millioner af europæeres rejseplaner dennne sommer.”