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Mr Orlando
13-04-2007, 02:34 PM
Yes I said £6 (six pounds)

About time, a few papers today reported that Ryanair is hopeing to introduce a few bargin price flights to the US. See Below for the Article in The Sun

RYANAIR plans bargain flights to America from just £6 a ticket.

Boss Michael O’Leary yesterday said he hopes to have routes from the UK to six US cities within four years.

The feisty Irish airline chief said the no-frills carrier will make its money on food, duty free and in-flight entertainment.

But the usual hidden taxes and fees on flights will add at least another £80 on top for the return trip.

The cheapest bargain flights to New York at the moment are over £230.

Also, just like their European short-haul routes, Ryanair jets would land at smaller, ‘secondary’ airports near the big cities.

Port of call ... Ryanair hopes to fly to smaller
airports outside of Boston, New York and Washington


Those being considered include Baltimore which is 32 miles from Washington, Providence for Boston (59 miles) and Long Island instead of JFK, New York (50 miles).

O’Leary said: “We’re working on plans to start flying the Atlantic. We’ve been approached by a number of US airports who are very keen.”

The news comes after Canadian low-fare airline Zoom announced flights from Gatwick to New York from June for as little as £129 one way.

martin1
13-04-2007, 02:38 PM
could be interesting a price war looms me thinks

karrie
13-04-2007, 04:27 PM
mmm sounds good to me!

Simon Veness
13-04-2007, 06:11 PM
It will be very interesting to see if Ryanair can actually turn their ideas into actual flights. Many people (notably Freddie Laker with his Skytrain operation) have tried to operate cheap transatlantic flights, and no-one has yet found the magic formula. Flyglobespan are the current latest entrants, but not on the scale that Ryanair have suggested they would be. Sadly, they do not include Florida in their plans at the moment, but it might still be a useful access point to the USA, with the low-cost airlines there already are here. Several airline commentators have said, though, that they don't think Ryanair can convert their short-haul methods into long-haul success, so it will be highly informative to see how they progress.

martin1
13-04-2007, 08:20 PM
good luck to them if they can get it off the ground(pardon thhe pun)it should be good for passengers as the big airlines will probably **** themselves and hopefully cut their prices

KillerPenguin
25-04-2007, 04:18 PM
this should be good - if it actually happends

marg21
25-04-2007, 08:05 PM
would be good 2 see but hey we can only sit and wait

dmrevis
25-04-2007, 08:34 PM
forget the USA, i wish a budget carrier would operate to Orkney!

Mr Orlando
25-04-2007, 08:51 PM
Yeah but the airlines go by demand !!!


I think the most demand will be to the US than Orkneys :p lol

dmrevis
25-04-2007, 08:58 PM
Suprisingly not. People here are always looking for easy jet or ryan air etc to start a route to the mainland but the stupid council and HIAL wont upgrade the runway. They have a monopoly and want to keep it that way.

spider
26-04-2007, 04:49 AM
im not bothered that the big companies **** themselves but it may make them rethink there stratagies.maybe cut there profits down in other areara such as fuel charges and the car insurence scam.heres hoping