Ryanair ground accident

I seem to recall reading that once a flight reaches a certain delay ex-base Ryanair’s policy is to cancel so as to protect it’s punctuality statistics. I would think inbound flights are a different matter as the aircraft needs to be brought back to base regardless.

1L.

I don’t know for certain either way about this to be fair. You could well be right.

The one thing I do know is that my friend who is a Q400 pilot for Flybe has warned me that there are certain flights out of Manchester to avoid at all costs as low loads will regularly lead to cancellations in order to merge flights. Monday evenings and Friday mornings spring to mind. The games the airlines play are interesting, and I guess in this case, BE can do something RYR can’t do because they have higher frequencies and lower loads.

We call you Flymaybe all the time, but only affectionately. I like FlyBe, have some great crews as well :).

Yeah, i’ve just started working in Dispatch at NCL and we handle FlyBe, majority of the Flight Deck crew are realy good apart from the one was late going due to crew turning up 10 mins before the STD, and then later that day blaming it to tech problems, not once did he mention to me before he closed doors, that he had a problem!

their number of flights delayed by more than an hour is better than yours at 2.6% vs. 3.9%.

I seem to recall reading that once a flight reaches a certain delay ex-base Ryanair’s policy is to cancel so as to protect it’s punctuality statistics. I would think inbound flights are a different matter as the aircraft needs to be brought back to base regardless.

1L.

There’s no justification for calling them Flymaybe, we have one of the best punctualities in the UK considering we fly over 81,000 flights, with an average delay of 10 minutes. This fairs better than any airline with over 35,000 flights per year bar bmi who’s average delay is nearly 9 minutes.

We call you Flymaybe all the time, but only affectionately. I like FlyBe, have some great crews as well :).

at NCL we have a habit of calling them FleeBy, not sure why to be honust lol.

ROFL

we had doubled in size “overnight”.

I keep doing that. I really should lay off the pies!

It was chaos engine after the takeover, purely because we had doubled in size “overnight”.

I know, that’s why I acknowledged that.

It was chaos engine after the takeover, purely because we had doubled in size “overnight”.

Of course it’s defensive, because there’s no statistical backup for rdc’s comment 😉

Anyway we digress

I accept you’ve got better, but your name was well deserved for a while, albeit for 18 months following the purchase of BA Citiexpress when it all went a bit aray for BE.

I think your average delay anyway is only something like 0.5mins better than RYR, and their number of flights delayed by more than an hour is better than yours at 2.6% vs. 3.9%. Since you’re RYR bashing (albeit I think it’s with a pinch of salt) then you have to accept they are better than you in some areas. :diablo:;)

Of course it’s defensive, because there’s no statistical backup for rdc’s comment 😉

Anyway we digress

There’s no justification for calling them Flymaybe, we have one of the best punctualities in the UK considering we fly over 81,000 flights, with an average delay of 10 minutes. This fairs better than any airline with over 35,000 flights per year bar bmi who’s average delay is nearly 9 minutes.

Slightly defensive (fly)mayBE? :diablo:

Evil I know but it had to be done! 😀

There’s no justification for calling them Flymaybe, we have one of the best punctualities in the UK considering we fly over 81,000 flights, with an average delay of 10 minutes. This fairs better than any airline with over 35,000 flights per year bar bmi who’s average delay is nearly 9 minutes.

RyanAir outdoes itself again!

In WHAT way? This incident has happened on many occasions to many other airlines, including some of the most “highly regarded” flag carriers. What a ridiculous comment!

It does, and has happened to other airlines but I can’t recall many where 2 a/c from the same company have collided 😉

Pakistan International, 2xB777s 13th April 2007
Alitalia 2x Md-82s 26th August 2006
I’m sure there will be more, particulalry in the USA where many airports don’t have common user gates, and consequently aircraft moving around each other are likely to be of the same airline, just as at GRO where at this time of year, many of the operations are dominated by RYR.

“A collision between two Ryanair planes” doesn’t necessarily imply or state both were at fault, in which case I see no difference whatsoever whether they’re from the same airline or not as far as slagging the airline off is concerned. 😉

Paul

Exactly.

If we can’t slag off ryanair who can we slag off? 😀

FlyMayBe????

Or Lufthansa who have a bad habit of bumping into other people’s aircraft, such as at LCY where they decided to nudge a BA Avro (21st April 2008), or at MAN where they decided to brush up against a Futura B737-800 (5th Aug 2008)

If we can’t slag off ryanair who can we slag off? 😀

FlyBE? :diablo:

Fair point you have, just trying to provide an alternate viewpoint! :p

Paul

If we can’t slag off ryanair who can we slag off? 😀

It does, and has happened to other airlines but I can’t recall many where 2 a/c from the same company have collided 😉

“A collision between two Ryanair planes” doesn’t necessarily imply or state both were at fault, in which case I see no difference whatsoever whether they’re from the same airline or not as far as slagging the airline off is concerned. 😉

Paul

It does, and has happened to other airlines but I can’t recall many where 2 a/c from the same company have collided 😉

RyanAir outdoes itself again!

This kind of incident has happened many times before to various airlines, so would you care to explain your ostensibly ‘Ryanair specific’ feelings further?

Paul

RyanAir outdoes itself again!