Unconfirmed New Bases, Routes, etc. (Rumours only)

There are rumours that next Wednesday Chania (Greece) will be announced as a new base.

This website also reports the Dublin-St Petersburg route.

Girona to Tampere
Girona to Lappeenranta

Ryanair coming to Israël? http://www.touristisrael.com/ryanair-flights-to-tel-aviv-israel-to-start-soon/8825/?utm_source=rss

Looks like Marrakech (RAK) will become a new base. Would be the first base outside the EU and on African soil.

EIN-RAK is operated twice weekly this winter with BGY-EIN-RAK-BGY and BGY-RAK-EIN-BGY.
S13 this will rise to 4x weekly with the same routing on the Saturday flight, but the other three flights are operated from RAK (25min turnaround at EIN). Tuesday EIN-RAK flight arrives at 22:35 local and Thursday RAK-EIN flight departes 06:30 local. Must be a new base....

Ryanair coming to Armenia?
http://news.am/eng/news/134228.html

http://www.aviazionecivile.org/vb/showthread.php/127406-Ryanair-chiede-slot-a-Napoli-e-Catania


Ryanair has requested slots at two Italian airports : Catania (eastern coast of Sicilia) and Naples (Campania). Remains to be seen if these slots will be given to Ryanair, and then actually used by Ryanair.

From Catania to 29 destinations:

- Stoccolma/Nykoping (NYO)
- Londra/Luton (LTN)
- Malta (MLA)
- Bologna (BLQ)
- Roma/Ciampino (CIA)
- Bergamo (BGY)
- Karlsruhe/Baden (FKB)
- Valencia (VLC)
- Cagliari (CAG)
- Memmingem (FMM)
- Tampere (TMP)
- Maastricht (MST)
- Cracovia (KRK)
- Cuneo (CUF)
- Parma (PMF)
- Lipsia (LEJ)
- Genova (GOA)
- Billund (BLL)
- Torino (TRN)
- Bruxelles/Charleroi (CRL)
- Perugia (PEG)
- Parigi/Beauvais (BVA)
- Treviso (TSF)
- Trieste (TRS)
- Eindhoven (EIN)
- Ancona (AOI)
- Girona (GRO)
- Francoforte (HHN)
- Pisa (PSA)



From Napoli to 8 destinations :

- East Midlands (EMA)
- Oslo/Rygge (RYG)
- Malta (MLA)
- Breslavia (WRO)
- Karlsruhe/Baden (FKB)
- Londra/Stansted (STN)
- Alghero (AHO)
- Pisa (PSA)

Catania to Maastricht, Eindhoven and Brussels!

Is this certain about Catania to Belgium and Holland? And would this be for upcoming summer? Please give some more info, greetings

Article is in Dutch but it says a.o. that the subject of the Press conference on 16th January in Maastricht has not been made public

http://www.dichtbij.nl/maastricht/zakelijk/artikel/2601391/oprichter-ryanair-komt-naar-maastrichtairport-met-nieuws.aspx

Besides the press conference in Maastricht, MOL will visit Dresden, Santander, Lisbon, Porto, Marseille and Beauvais this week!

In this link, an analysis is made about the (possible?) new bases at Marrakech and Fez.
http://www.anna.aero/2013/01/14/routeflash-ryanair-to-open-its-first-african-bases-in-marrakech-and-fez/

ROUTEFLASH!!: Ryanair to open its first African bases in Marrakech and Fez

Exclusive: anna.aero has discovered that Ryanair will open two new bases in Morocco, less than six months after a spectacular public row with the state airports company, ONDA, in which it declared: “Ryanair cannot accept cost increases as it seeks to deliver more growth to Morocco; ONDA has now lost sight of the key to the success of our partnership.” Clearly relations have thawed considerably, to the extent that aircraft will now be based in the country, probably from April this year.

As base number 56 and 57 you would think that this would not be a big deal for the low-cost world, however the Irish carrier’s decision is significant as it represents the first time any European low-cost carrier has made the decision to base aircraft outside of its home continent. Our data elves can only think of Tiger Airways (based in Singapore, but with operations in Sydney and Melbourne) and Air Arabia (based in Sharjah but with bases in Alexandria and Casablanca) as being the only low-cost carriers with aircraft based in a different continent. (Before anyone writes in, we maintain that Ryanair’s three Canary Islands bases in Tenerife, Lanzarote, and Gran Canaria are technically in Europe).

Competing airlines on the rack, at RAK

Currently Ryanair is the third largest carrier at Marrakech, trailing slightly behind easyJet and national carrier Royal Air Maroc in terms of both weekly frequencies and seats. Even if Ryanair decides to base just one new aircraft at the airport, it would seem likely that it will become the dominant airline, although this will depend on the number of new routes that it plans to launch versus just simply reinstating the schedule on existing routes.

Looking at the biggest routes in Marrakech market today, Ryanair either already operates, or has plans to operate, to the largest markets: Paris (it already serves Beauvais four times weekly); London (two flights per week to London Luton restart on 02 February, and two flights per week to London Stansted from 03 February); Madrid (daily flights); Marseille (thrice weekly); and Milan (it serves Bergamo twice weekly).

Will Ryanair go domestic?

The obvious gaps in the existing network would be some services to Scandinavia, and more capacity into France to serve the obvious social links between the two counties. However, the biggest single market from Marrakech is domestic — with 28 weekly frequencies and over 3,200 weekly seats — is to Casablanca. So, with aircraft based at the airport, it will be interesting to see if Ryanair uses this opportunity launch domestic services within Morocco.
The situation at Fez Saïss Airport is very different. It is seven times smaller than Marrakech, and Ryanair is already the #1 airline in terms of weekly seats and flights – it only has five airlines serving the city probably most famous for the tarboosh felt hat. Route opportunities that Ryanair may well look to exploit could include re-starting London Stansted flights again (which were canned during the spat over charges last October with ONDA), Madrid (currently not served at the airport), more frequencies to France (Paris, Marseille and Montpellier are currently operated across all serving airlines) as well as Scandinavia.
As we close for press, there are also rumours that Michael O’Leary will be using the company jet this week to announce bases 58 and 59 at Lisbon and Santander. Typically Ryanair would normally start a base only after it has trialled the destination with some inbound flights from other bases, but currently it has no operations at Lisbon and if this plan comes to fruition it will become its third Portuguese base after Porto and Faro. The low-cost carrier already has a 17 route network from Santander operating domestically in Spain, as well as the three routes to the UK, two in Italy and one each in Germany and Belgium. Santander would become Ryanair’s eighth base in mainland Spain.

Rumour of base n°58 at Lisbon.
http://www.luchtzak.be/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=49558&sid=ce34ea562b0df2547541376c3ff8f232

And maybe # 59 Santander, Spain!

I think that now is the moment for Ryanair to start off from Ljubljana. Passengers down 12%, Adria Airways (biggest carrier) in trouble, Wizz already there... Maybe?

No base in Lisbon yet - possibly in 2014. Talks between Ryanair and ANA, Lisbon Airport owner, are already taking place.

http://economico.sapo.pt/noticias/ryanair-ja-negoceia-com-vinci-base-em-lisboa_160260.html (Portuguese)

Where will they get the planes for all the rumored bases?

Cutting less profitable routes elsewhere, since FR don't have more new planes in the pipeline for several years.

Rumours that tomorrow will be officially launched routes from Targu Mures airport (TGM) to Dublin and Pisa.

Tommorow Michael O'Leary will hold a conference at Marseille airport. New routes to be announced ? "New" seasonal base ?

Tomorrow pressconference at Marseille (9:30), Targu Mures (12:00), Beauvais and Maastricht.

Argu Mures is now called Transylvania. http://www.brasov.net/ryanair-cel-mai-mare-operator-aerian-low-cost-incepe-colaborarea-cu-aeroportul-international-transilvania-targu-mures/

Looks like MOL only came to Maastricht to tell that Ryanair will sue KRO for their documentary KRO Reporter on Ryanair. Oh.. and to tell that they will carry over 500.000 pax in 2013, which we already knew. Disappointing press conference.

Tomorrow press conference in Alghero and probably in Dresden too! Hopefully we'll see some more route launches

where do you have the information with Dresden? Any source?