Articles tagged “ryanair”

The explosive growth of LCCs has plateaued in Europe and U.S., but is still on the rise in Asia. Many airlines are already designing a hybrid of full-service and budget product offerings.

It’s not CEO Michael O’Leary who’s put his foot in his mouth this time. Ryanair is looking to take advantage of the recession to bolster its own business and, in true Ryanair fashion, classy enough to publish it in a press release.

Ryanair currently has bare-bones advertising on its own website, but it sees an opportunity to monetize customers and noncustomers visits to Ryanair.com by selling the data to advertisers. If you visit Ryanair.com, you have a marketing target on your back, but the airline's actions aren't much different from other carriers and hotels.

Ryanair sees ample room to grow in Europe, as its push into Slovakia highlights.

Well, then. CEO Michael O'Leary does have a certain je ne sais quoi when it comes to saying offensive things that break new ground. And this method gets much more press than, say, Delta's CEO does when he says particular routes are out of the question for the foreseeable future.

While there's no doubt the end of taxes would produce a small bump in inbound traffic, PricewaterhouseCoopers is out of its gourd if it thinks scrapping the tax would boost tourism by 40%. The biggest benefit to cutting the tax will be outbound tourism.

This case sets precedent that natural events do not fall beyond “extraordinary circumstances” so airlines are responsible for reimbursing passengers for money spent until their next available flight.

This may be the worst job in airline industry, or the most perverse fun, if that's what you're into. Ryanair and its U.S. equivalent Spirit Airlines aren't very social, though outspoken when it comes to bombastic PR.

Ryanair faces an uphill battle to take over the rest of Aer Lingus given the Irish government's opposition so far, and the long and the short (haul) of it is that Michael O'Leary is going to have to give up a lot if he's going to get this deal approved.

Focusing on the customer experience? Whether it is online hawking games or onboard, Ryanair doesn't care about it all that much.