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Post by jake3 on Apr 17, 2012 0:04:47 GMT 1
 Ryanair are to axe routes to Milan - Rome - Rimini - Almeria and to cut back on others. Not looking good.
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Post by liverpoolman1 on Apr 17, 2012 7:49:47 GMT 1
So where is your news source? There is nothing on the news section of the Ryanair website to back up your claim. Putting items such as this without verification is non-productive so where is your source?
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Post by baldyman26 on Apr 17, 2012 8:17:59 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2012 9:11:07 GMT 1
I'm currently going through the movements for the March review and can confirm that none of these routes have been operated since the start of the summer scheds and Almeria was axed before it even started. I thought this had already been discussed here.
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Post by liverpoolman1 on Apr 17, 2012 9:31:49 GMT 1
I found a reference to the cuts in the Echo report. It is odd that it is not on the Ryanair website and if the Echo is correct - and I have no reason to suspect that it is not - then the effect of APD is patently obvious to everyone except the Chancellor. I wrote to my local MP about the proposed - now effective - increases and received the usual patronising crocodile-tear-stained letter as a reply. Our European competition is rubbing its hands with glee as the Government scores anther own goal. Example of how it effects us all is that a recent visit to China revealed that a family were booking to visit Europe but chose France as their centre of travel as they were shocked by the £1000 APD plus addition to their standard air fare. The last thing LJLA needs is an airline pulling routes.
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Post by baldyman26 on Apr 17, 2012 9:46:07 GMT 1
Alot of "spin" going on here, and as always Ryanair are spinning the fastest. I think they are doing something similar at Edinburgh, axing routes that are not running, axing 100's jobs that arn't there to create maximum publicity and get their own way. The Governments pockets are being lined nicely by this APD, and it won't be changed anytime soon. I do think Ryanair are going about it in the wrong way, but thats the way they work. Does anybody know if behind closed doors, the management at Liverpool are getting worried, or are fully in the loop and playing along with Mr O'Leary. As far as I am aware, the airlines get exactly what they want at JLA (and probably make a fair profit too), with little argument, so why burn their bridges other than for publicity ??
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Post by viscount on Apr 17, 2012 11:01:44 GMT 1
Went to bed last night quite depressed at yet further cuts to the summer programme, only to find this morning that the cuts were the same ones discussed on the forum several months ago and have already been axed weeks ago.
While I am not a person who usually sees conspiracies, I do wonder if it is the supposedly 'Liverpool Echo' and their reporters that are creating the current "spin" rather than O'Leary's men. Last week it was how dangerous to fly into Liverpool (pilots disabled by laser pen attacks) - a topic picked-up by TV NW news coverage the next evening; now the Airport has no routes as they have all been cut several times over. My exaduration, but it seems to be the way the "spin" goes, indeed as reflected in this (erroneous) thread title.
Liverpool Airport management, I would have thought, should be a little more pro-active in trying to put out good image news, rather than minimal responses to 'bad news'. The only media I've heard about the new 'business' lounge is on this forum.
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Post by LPL on Apr 17, 2012 11:36:30 GMT 1
I'm currently going through the movements for the March review and can confirm that none of these routes have been operated since the start of the summer scheds and Almeria was axed before it even started. I thought this had already been discussed here.It has been, weeks ago on the Ryanair thread. |
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Post by LPL on Apr 17, 2012 11:40:09 GMT 1
While I am not a person who usually sees conspiracies, I do wonder if it is the supposedly ' Liverpool Echo' and their reporters that are creating the current "spin" rather than O'Leary's men. Last week it was how dangerous to fly into Liverpool (pilots disabled by laser pen attacks) - a topic picked-up by TV NW news coverage the next evening; now the Airport has no routes as they have all been cut several times over. My exaduration, but it seems to be the way the "spin" goes, indeed as reflected in this (erroneous) thread title. Correct about the Echo, maybe its more to do with them being part of a group that not based in the city now. Last year you will remember it was security queues, nothing has been printed about the situation now. Wonder why? |
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Post by LPL on Apr 17, 2012 11:44:07 GMT 1
Liverpool Airport management, I would have thought, should be a little more pro-active in trying to put out good image news, rather than minimal responses to 'bad news'. The only media I've heard about the new 'business' lounge is on this forum. They have on various sites that link to this page ( www.liverpoolairport.com/premiumlounge/ ) on its website. |
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Post by viscount on Apr 17, 2012 12:05:41 GMT 1
Liverpool Airport management, I would have thought, should be a little more pro-active in trying to put out good image news, rather than minimal responses to 'bad news'. The only media I've heard about the new 'business' lounge is on this forum. They have on various sites that link to this page ( www.liverpoolairport.com/premiumlounge/ ) on its website. I was more thinking of media that reaches people, rather than has to be sought out and found by people. |
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Post by LPL on Apr 17, 2012 13:26:25 GMT 1
I was more thinking of media that reaches people, rather than has to be sought out and found by people. One of the sites is Facebook, a site for reaching people that has very few, if any, peers. |
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Post by baldyman26 on Apr 17, 2012 14:34:38 GMT 1
Whoever is spinning the spins, or blowing out of proportion, the management at LJLA don't do anything to say that the story is infact a load of tosh, and actually put the facts straight..
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Post by LPL on Apr 17, 2012 15:30:26 GMT 1
Whoever is spinning the spins, or blowing out of proportion, the management at LJLA don't do anything to say that the story is infact a load of tosh, and actually put the facts straight.. Is it LPL mangement job to tell the Echo how badly they do their job? Its not the airports fault that the Echo is repeating a story that makes it look to the public Ryanair have cut 12 routes instead of the six they have actually done. |
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Post by andyh on Apr 17, 2012 17:28:57 GMT 1
I suspect that if Ryanair had a problem with LPL we would know very publicly - just ask BAA at Edinburgh. My view is that RYR's agreement with MAG depends on them carrying a minimum nr of pax through the year, regardless of whether they would use LPL given the choice. As such they are siphoning off pax which at the moment are harder to come by as higher APD is making people think twice about booking flights. As the economy picks up and financial pressures ease, I suspect routes will be restarted.
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Ryanair are to axe routes to Milan - Rome - Rimini - Almeria and to cut back on others. Not looking good.
