Don’t forget to add on the £30-60 “taxes and charges” so you get a truer picture of the fares available.

Notice how it’s only 600,000 more passengers on those routes from the time they start them until the end of time, and not an annual 600,000 pax. So it seems blindingly obvious that they are lumbered with an enourmous 738 order and are doomed to spend forever and a day adding “thin” and “thinnner” routes.

Butif they mean annually, it’s just 66% loads (calculation performed on a steam-driven abacus). Bit less than what they carry at the moment => yield won’t be too great if there are plenty of free seats!

As Robertt says, what a load of cack. £45.00 return taxes charge is what BA.com is quoting for MAN-ABZ with Ryanair.com quoting taxes of £25.96 with a total fare of £30.94 return all-in. It’s the same for all the routes out of MAN. The £16 ‘fuel surcharge’ doesn’t do any favours for BA.

The 600,000 pax per year is a pessimistic standard forecast which estimates 300,000 pax per aircraft per year. Ryanair will have absolutely no problems placing aircraft ever (TOP SECRET..watch out for even more orders before the year end). Pax loads in Spain and Italy are at bursting point and they will see lots of new bases in the near future. 🙂

It’s the maturity of the UK market which means that priority is with the UK regions at the moment in order to prevent rivals from getting a grip on the market. MOL has stated that he still sees ‘huge potential’ in the UK regions ie outside London.