The thoughts of Kevin Dixie » ryanair http://blog.kevindixie.com All my thoughts unless they're yours Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:44:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Ryanair No Longer To Fly To La Rochelle, Nantes Or Angouleme Out Of Season http://blog.kevindixie.com/2009/09/14/ryanair-no-longer-to-fly-to-la-rochelle-nantes-or-angouleme-out-of-season/ http://blog.kevindixie.com/2009/09/14/ryanair-no-longer-to-fly-to-la-rochelle-nantes-or-angouleme-out-of-season/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:10:00 +0000 KevinD http://blog.kevindixie.com/?p=290 Those people that moved to France and commute are just about to hear a bombshell, our friends Ryanair who have been serving our local airports for years and years have just pulled out. Bang. No emails to those already booked, nothing, just pulled the plug. Ryanair stopped flying to La Rochelle, Nantes and Angouleme outside summer season.

So my parents who have booked in November and December, will “get a refund”, yet have not, at the time of writing even had en email confirming the route closure. Nor does it mention this anywhere on any other site as far as I can see.

I have confirmed with la Rochelle airport that Ryanair are no longer flying there between November and April nor are they flying to Nantes or Angouleme. The only airport they are going to fly to is Poitiers “out of season”. So those packed flights I have travelled on from La Rochelle to Stansted all year have clearly not been making any money. Yes, packed flights.

I have looked into it and I can get a train to Poitiers or even drive which is two hours each way or jump the train to Bordeaux..how about the rest of the regular commuters, what do you intend doing? What about the thousands of gites and small businesses in the region that rely on the English tourism?

I am shocked and wonder if this route cancellation will mean we will have to move back to Blighty or to the USA..

UPDATE: I have since found out that Ryanair are letting 850 people go from their operations and a travel insider has emailed me to tell me that Ryanair are in so much financial trouble they could be going bust. This is an unconfirmed rumour but would make a little sense as to why they are scrapping very busy flights.

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Ryanair, Europe’s largest low fares airline, today (8 Apr) announced that it received over 12,000 suggestions from passengers as part of the low fares airline’s competition to suggest a discretionary revenue charge which would help lower Ryanair’s costs and reduce its guaranteed lowest fares even further.

The top five suggestions are:
  1. €1 for toilet paper – with O’Leary’s face on it,
  2. €2 “corkage” fee for passengers who bring their own food,
  3. €5 annual subscription to access Ryanair.com,
  4. €3 to smoke in a converted toilet cubicle,
  5. Excess fees for overweight passengers based on body mass index.

I hope they select number 1 – what are the bets the competition is fixed, with choices 2 and 3 being those submitted by Ryanair?  Cast your vote here

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