PPRuNe Forums - Ryanair - 6 (2024)

If Zweibrucken airport was trying to market itself to the people of Saarbrucken, it was doing a lousy job. Not only does Saarbrucken have its own airport (with Luxair having their 2nd base there after Luxembourg), but the bus times from Zweibrucken airport to either Saarbrucken or the nearer Homburg were pretty lousy for anyone wanting to visit from London.

To those who want to go from London to Saarbrucken on an LCC, even before the Zweibrucken route was canned, going via Hahn seems to be the least worst option. Then again, given that the minibus on the evening of 11 July from Saarbrucken, Homburg and Ramstein to Hahn had a grand total of 4 passengers, I suspect not a lot of people want to make this journey.

Re Ryaniar for winter 2009/10 at the UK bases.

Anyone in the know at Ryanair able to say if there is a further winter release.

Most UK bases I have checked have based aircraft reductions for the winter period on the current released programme, EMA, BRS and BHX to name three I have looked at.

Not asking for destinations etc but at present the reductions are high, perhaps something to do with incresing taxes.

Centre cities

I'm flying with Ryanair on Monday, so I did my on-line check in tonight.

I was asked questions like 'Have you packed your bag yourself?' 'Could anybody have put things in your bag?' etc.

when evidently I haven't packed it yet... too much laundry to be done.

I'm not knocking Ryanair for this at all, as anyone, you would think will always state the 'correct' answer, whether on line or a check-in desk.

What's the point? I'd be grateful if any check-in workers would let us know if anybody has given the 'wrong' answer and what happens to them if so?

Hi johnnychips -

Well I've never had to give the "wrong" answer via online check-in, but I have at the airport. A couple of years ago I checked in at MAN for my Jet2 flight to Pisa and was asked, "Are you carrying anything for anybody else?"

"Yes , I am" I replied, as indeed I was. A bag full of home comforts for a friend based in Pisa for a year to study Italian at the university there.

The poor trainee check-in girl looked stunned and scarcely knew how to reply, but her supervisor soon stepped in and directed me to have my luggage x-rayed nearby prior to acceptance for the flight. And that is all that really needs to happen; an extra layer of security checking for the affected luggage.

Hope this answers the question.

SHED.

Yes but you well know they meant were you given stuff by a 3rd party to carry on.

I agree though that the question can be interpreted a couple of different ways and depends on the mood of the Pax and Checkin operator.

Best was going with a couple of mates on a flight and everyone getting asked did you pack the bags yourself.

One guy to his enternal shame never got to answer as another mate stated loudly, "of course he didn't his mum packed it for him", the look of Pity from the checkin girl said it all.

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Hi Racedo -

The stuff DID belong to a third party (the student who had asked me to bring it on the flight) and I WAS carrying it on. Hence what I "know well" is that the only legitimate answer to the security question put to me was: "YES!"

Why do you presume to second-guess me about the composition of my own luggage? Do you suggest lying when asked the security questions? Maybe that is what you do?

SHED.

Shed

Carrying something for someone else or carrying on behalf of someone else are two vastly different things.

Buying the items yourself, they are then your items even though you may pass onto someone else. What you do with them after reaching you destination is up to you.

Carrying a package of goods given to you by someone else for another party is discloseable.

I always grin at the question
"could anybody have tampered with/put something in your luggage without you knowing about it....?" :rolleyes:

I've just realised how daft this question is. I wonder what would happen if I said, "well how the hell do I know?"

"Yes" is technically the correct answer unless you've taken your case to bed with you on the night before the flight and you're a light sleeper... :}

Racedo -

I don't recall mentioning BUYING anything. I conveyed the property of a third party from Manchester to Pisa at their request and answered the security question as put to me (ie. not your rephrased alternative) with the only conceivable honest answer - period. You are extremely arrogant to presume that you can interpret events at which you were not present better than the people who were actually there. Are you quite deluded? I fully understand the question which I was asked (thankyou very much) and there were only two possible answers: YES (true in this case), NO (untrue in this case). So I answered yes. Now just what is your problem with that? Do you have a mission in life to promote dishonesty and the misleading of security staff? Or is it just that you are an expert in everything, including conversations/events at which you were not present?

SHED.

Ryanair opens several routes from Oslo Rygge (RYG) and Sandefjord (TRF) to Italy, Spain, France, UK and Belgium

Ryanair opens new routes to Rygge (RYG),Alicante (ALC),Bergamo (BGY),Bremen (BRE),Brussels (CRL),Gerona (GRO),Madrid (MAD),London (STN),Oslo (TRF),Paris (BVA),Rome (CIA),Krakow (KRK),Lodz (LCJ)

So Ryanair beefing up their present in Oslo Torp and also introducing Oslo Rygge. Interesting.
Don't think they are going to be bases though...

• Rygge Airport: 65km South East of Oslo
• Sandefjord Torp Airport: 115km South West of Oslo
• Oslo International Airport: 50km North of Oslo

all the routes from Rygge are current bases so probably free capacity there. Two of the routes from torp tho Lodz(3/7) & Krakow(4/7) arent bases .

Any idea where this W pattern is going to originate from?

Also with such a large number of routes why not base at Torp?

One hindrance is the fact that Norway is not in the European Union and how Ryanair employees based there would probably need different (non-Irish and more costly) contracts.

http://www.pprune.org/5017647-post4692.html

Picked that one up couple of weeks ago and not sure what idea is but could mean BCN may come on in near future.

I have checked the Torp schedules to see how the LCJ & KRK
work but obviously some more changes needed.

LCJ is operated as a "W" from Torp and Krakow is operated as
if it was Krakow based but I could not find where the Krakow
aircraft originates from to do the Torp (unless I have missed
something).

However the one thing I did notice was that BHX-TRF is no longer
on sale for winter following BHX-NYO, BLQ and OPO.

The difference here is that BHX-TRF has had awful load factors
lin the main and it should not really be a surprise if it has gone.

Pete