Following in the steps of a well known orange competitor – this time to Fez and Marrakech from Hahn.
http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/news.php?yr=06&month=apr&story=rte-en-120406
Ryanair, Europe’s largest low fares airline, today (Wednesday, 12th April 2006) announced nine new routes from its Frankfurt Hahn base to Granada and Murcia in Spain, Trieste and Verona in Italy, Krakow and Wroclaw in Poland, Kaunus in Lithuania and Fez and Marrakesh in Morocco. The new routes will operate at least 3 times weekly from the 25th October 2006 and bring the total number of destinations served by Ryanair from Frankfurt Hahn to 36. In addition to the 9 new routes, Ryanair will also increase frequency on the London service from 4 to 6 flights daily and the Oslo service from 1 to 2 flights daily. Today’s new services will increase the annual passenger numbers at Frankfurt Hahn by over 1 Million to 4.3 Million passengers in 2007.
From October 2006, Ryanair will base 2 additional Boeing 737-800 in Frankfurt-Hahn as part of the $1 billion multi year expansion bringing the total number of based aircraft at Hahn to 9.
So what do people make of that then?
By: philgatwick05 - 17th April 2006 at 20:23
Im sure FR love that long a flight – should be able to get around the plane a good 3 or 4 times with cart!
Or the crew to have a decent nap! 😀
Only kidding I found them to be brilliant in what can’t be easy circumstances.
By: andrewm - 17th April 2006 at 20:19
Im sure FR love that long a flight – should be able to get around the plane a good 3 or 4 times with cart!
By: redsquare - 17th April 2006 at 17:38
This is only possible (5th Freedom Rights) due to the recently signed Open Skies deal Morocco signed with the EU allowing any EU airline to fly from anywhere in the EU to Morocco with Montenegro, Croatia and Turkey to follow shortly.
These flights will also be the first Ryanair flights over 3 hours in flying time. I wreckon they’ll be between 3h20m and 3h40 each way. Also interesting to note that they’ll be daytime flights and not overnighters. In any case it will interesting to see the results of these flights come October.
Another part of that announment is the change from Verona Brescia (VBS) to Verona Villafranca (VRN), I wonder whether the Stansted route will follow that move.
By: philgatwick05 - 17th April 2006 at 15:26
Lets not FR vs. EZY bash here anyone else agree?
Didn’t think anyone was!?! 😀
anyone else agree?
Yep definately.
By: wozza - 17th April 2006 at 15:02
Lets not FR vs. EZY bash here – I reckon that the North African tourist market is booming at the moment and soon enough (give it 5 yrs) we’ll see several services from several Lo-Cos (not just EZY and FR) flying to countries such as Morocco – this is just the start of many carriers entering the North African market – anyone else agree?
By: philgatwick05 - 17th April 2006 at 15:01
Both 4 x weekly so scheduled I think
Thanks 🙂 – What aircraft?
By: Pablo - 17th April 2006 at 14:58
Is that scheduled or charter?
Both 4 x weekly so scheduled I think
By: philgatwick05 - 17th April 2006 at 13:14
Dont also forget TOM are starting LTN/MAN-Marrakesh next winter
Is that scheduled or charter?
By: bmi-star - 17th April 2006 at 13:11
I think there are a number of Moroccans in Germany too, so they might use the service to go back home etc
By: Humberside - 17th April 2006 at 13:05
Dont also forget TOM are starting LTN/MAN-Marrakesh next winter
By: tomfellows - 17th April 2006 at 11:12
Blatantly copying EZY there I think, yet I think they’ll delay any decision on operating from the UK to Morocco until they see how EZY do.
Fez is an interesting one. GB Airways recently pulled out from there from Gatwick.
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