November saw some issues related to pickle fork cracks on Boeing aircraft, which led to three Ryanair-operated aircraft being grounded. Did this issue have a significant effect on your fleet operation? Our mechanics identified a small number of findings on some aircraft that needed to be repaired and that was for Boeing to repair.
From that point of view, it had no impact on us because it was only a small number of aircraft, and occurring during the winter season meant we had some spare aircraft available.
Nearly all of our heavy fleet maintenance is done in the winter, so we could afford to send these aircraft to Boeing to be repaired and see no impact. Given growing internal base maintenance requirements, how is Ryanair looking to address concerns about MRO capacity in its network?
Upon reviewing our heavy maintenance capacity across sites in Prestwick UK with five maintenance bays, Kaunas Lithuania , Wroclaw Poland and Seville each with two bays , we analyzed where it made sense to grow further and decided that we will expand the hangar in Seville by an additional two bays in Ryanair grounded its entire aircraft fleet after the novel coronavirus pandemic led to global travel restrictions. How has this affected your maintenance operations?
We have chosen to put aircraft in short-term storage or in active parking. Idris adds that MAS wants its outsourcers to improve, innovate and make their operations more efficient. If we share the same values and culture, it is easier to react or realign future direction in accordance with the challenges. Sanjiv Puri, managing director of ITC Infotech, agrees: "Progressively, people have realised cost saving is just an event and you have to continuously improve operations.
Mature outsourcers look at partnerships, collaboration and more proactive involvement in managing the relationship so that value is actually delivered.
Puri explains: "For example, one would start by developing a loyalty or CRM solution, the next step someone could be asked to support it, then the infrastructure, so why don't you handle all the transactions that the system does as well? This is certainly an area that Mercator is considering: "We are increasing our footprint in the CRM and loyalty space and beginning to consider whether or not people should outsource their loyalty programmes," says Alexander.
Consolidation is also the name of the game. Instead of one partner developing the system and another providing the transactions, increasingly airlines are looking to consolidate their options. Pandey believes partners will progressively be called upon to see what platform solutions they can provide, particularly in the back office.
It is only one small step further on this consolidation route to partners providing software as a service. We host it and people only pay for it as they use it. The pay-as-you-go approach is particularly attractive for airlines with legacy applications that are costly to run or no longer support their business model, but who do not want to make huge upfront investments.
IBS Group head of central and eastern Europe Paul Drury adds: "Tier two and three airlines are incurring huge costs to keep these systems running. For the types of systems we're replacing, the new monthly costs are relatively insignificant.
Inevitably this trend will demand that outsourcers have much deeper understanding of their airline clients' business. Says Lakshminarayana: "We offer business process outsourcing that's more vertically integrated. We do not offer run-of-the-mill transactions. We have tremendous experience in delivering operations services - revenue accounting, administration of fares it requires a lot of experience in the airline industry.
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But leg space is OK and now it was winter, so the leather seat and seat back were acceptable I prefer fabric. No recline and no seat pocket. New aircraft in the fleet have the modern thin seats with more legroom, this was the legacy seats. Would I do it again? Yes, if the schedule is the best and the flight is below three hours, I would book Ryanair. If they offer the best connection. Hello Bjorn, congrats on managing to avoir ryanair for 10 years! The stated purpose of the CEO is to offer free tickets to the passenger, such as a public transport, fully funded by royalties.
The argument is simple: the more we attract air traffic to you the more you pay us. It is a new business model that is on the horizon.
Ryanair flies to most primary airports these days -alongside the secondary airports where original growth model was based —. They have not ruled out this business model.
Do you know if this is correct? Legroom acceptable, that says it all, on a short flight why would you pay more for less space and a bread roll a la legacy carriers. LCCs are often the most comfortable. Big part of net profit margin is very low corporate tax rate in Ireland. Compare pre and post taxation rates. Ireland is best by far EU domicile for a company.
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