Ryanair, our self proclaimed “Europe’s No.1 airline”, announced a new weekly London Stansted ski route to and from Dole, France commencing in December 2018. Ryanair’s Stansted Winter 2018 schedule includes 124 routes in total with three other new routes to Belfast, Edinburgh and Nantes.
Ryanair’s Robin Kiely declared “Ryanair is pleased to announce a new London Stansted to Dole route commencing in December 2018, which will operate once weekly as part of our Winter 2018 schedule. Customers can now book their trip to Doleas far out as March 2019 getting to the slopes on the lowest fares this winter. To celebrate, we are releasing seats for sale from London Stansted from just £19.99 for travel until October 2018 which are available for booking until midnight Saturday (30 June). These seats are sure to sell quickly so customers should log on to Ryanair.com today to avoid missing out.”
London Stansted’s Mark Davison said: “It’s great news that Ryanair is adding another new service to its extensive route network already available from London Stansted. Dole is an exciting new destination which I’m sure will prove to be very popular with passengers looking for even more choice when heading off to France.”
Ryanair acquires Austrian Airline
Last month Ryanair welcomed the EU Commission’s decision to approve Ryanair’s proposed acquisition of a 75% interest in Austrian airline, Laudamotion(Ryanair currently owning 24.9%). Ryanair has entered into partnership with Niki Laudato offer competition, lower fares, and more choice for consumers in Austria, Germany, and Spain, which is where the majority of Laudamotion services currently take place.
Laudamotion is currently under threat by Lufthansa who are attempting to remove the 9 aircraft Lufthansa was obliged by the European Commission to provide to Laudamotion in order to allow Laudamotion to restart services.
This is the latest in a series of efforts by Lufthansa to destabilise and damage Laudamotion, which has seen: Lufthansa fail to deliver 2 of the 11 aircraft they were required to under the EU Competition decision concerning Lufthansa’s acquisition of Air Berlin. Some of the aircraft that Lufthansa had committed to deliver being delayed until after the summer 2018 season, further reducing Laudamotion’s ability to take up slots and offer S2018 flights and services. Laudamotion only able to operate a 19 aircraft fleet in summer 2018 by wet leasing 10 B737 aircraft from Ryanair. Lufthansa Group delay payment of over €1.5m of wet lease payments properly due to Laudamotion, for flights which Laudamotion operated for Lufthansa in March, April and May.
Ryanair remains committed to bringing competition and choice to Austrian, German and Spanish markets through this investment in Laudamotion and called on the competition authorities to halt Lufthansa’s repeated abuses of its dominant position, which are designed to harm competition and consumers.
Ryanair’s Chief Legal & Regulatory Officer, Juliusz Komorek said:
“We welcome the EU Commission’s decision to approve Ryanair’s proposed acquisition of a 75% interest in Laudamotion. Ryanair remains committed to bringing competition, choice and low fares to the Austrian, German and Spanish markets through our investment in Laudamotion. We urge the EU competition authorities to take action and prevent any further attempts by Lufthansa to damage competition through its anti-consumer behaviour.”
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– Reduced checked-in bag fees – lower €25 fee, bigger 20kg bag allowance
– Connecting flights at Rome, Milan & Porto with more airports to follow
– Ryanair Rooms with 10% off Travel Credit
– Ryanair Transfers – wider choice of ground transport with new partner Car Trawler
– Punctuality Promise – 90% of Ryanair flights will be on time
– Price Promise – find a cheaper fare and Ryanair will refund the difference + €5 to your My Ryanair account