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islands canary closing its all bases possibly ryanair

Ryanair possibly closing all its bases in the Canary Islands
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This has been translated via Google from another site;-
The Irish airline Ryanair fulfills its threat and this Wednesday, January 8, it closes its Canary Islands bases without having yet notified the dismissal of its workers. Specifically, the airline closes the bases of Tenerife South, Gran Canaria and Lanzarote, as well as that of Girona, after the agreement between the airline and the unions did not prosper. In total, from today more than 432 workers will remain on the street. Of these, 327 will be cabin crew and 105 are pilots. In Tenerife South and Girona, the airline will lay off 100 workers in each of them; in Gran Canaria, 69 layoffs; and in Lanzarote, 58.
as reported by the ABC newspaper, although the unions believe that these dismissals should be considered void, because it has not even been notified, the truth is that there are no schedules planned beyond this Wednesday and the unions have already assumed the outcome of this conflict. In fact, workers are expected to receive dismissal letters today.
According to Canarias 7, at the end of this Tuesday Ryanair sent a memorandum to the workers placing them so that today they go at 17 hours to the headquarters of the airports of Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura to deliver the credentials, the uniform and the terminal of sales. It is expected that at the time of delivery of the material the airline will give the staff the dismissal letter.

The Irish airline justified the closure or reduction of several of its bases due to the uncertainty of Brexit, as well as the late delivery of up to 30 MAX 737 aircraft this winter
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I believe this was announced in the tail end of last year. At least they are not closing/stopping flights to Fuerte (yet).
That would be a complete pain, flying from Scotland we have limited options as it is ☹️☹️
Although blaming it on Brexit is a fallacy, if the sun stopped shining that would be blamed on Brexit as well. 
Funny how actual flights to mainland Europe (which one would think would be the main result of Brexit haven’t happened to any great extent).
I saw a post & a couple of comments on Facebook a few days ago about 1/2 empty flights to Fuerte in the last wk or so, not good for tourism but I guess it’s a quiet time of year all over.
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It,s   O,Leary shooting his mouth off again, anything that gets Dire air in the news is fine by him.
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Air Lingus pulled the plug on fuerteventura for the summer. And they also had full planes. I think a shortage of new planes is the problem. 
That last rant reminds me of the old days in a place far from this forum.
I just had a look at Ryanair and it looks like it’s business as usual from U.K. airports to the Canaries. Is someone stirring the pot.
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Had noticed Aer Lingus had pulled the Dublin to Fuerte summer schedule which left Ryanair the only direct flight from Dublin for 2020 . Just hope this is not like Bulgaria some years ago where people were left with holiday homes they couldn’t get to because Ryanair ceased flights.🤬
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(08-01-2020, 09:39 PM)Derry Wrote: Had noticed Aer Lingus had pulled the Dublin to Fuerte summer schedule which left Ryanair the only direct flight from Dublin for 2020 . Just hope this is not like Bulgaria some years ago where people were left with holiday homes they couldn’t get to because Ryanair ceased flights.🤬

It happened in fuerteventura some years ago when the local wise guys tried to hold on to Money they had agreed to pay to Ryanair. They paid it eventually and in cash I believe.
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All very disheartening news. The competition between AL and Ryanair really helped with pricing and making flights a little less full and mad. 

Will be gutted if there are no more direct flights from Dublin! With talk of further development on the island, is there some kind of push to tour companies only and limiting the amount of AirBnB and owner-occupied holiday properties, so fewer incentives being offered to the likes of AL and Ryanair? Are they trying to discourage non-tour repeat visitors?
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Ryanair has a serious problem with no new aircraft (at least not the Max) likely until 2021. At the same time they've started new routes . That means the older routes are all competing against each other. 

The Canaries are far enough away that the planes likely can only do one return flight a day. 

All you can do is think about connecting some place. I know it's a pain but it's not likely getting better any time soon.
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I had read RA are 150 planes short due to the 737 Max issue,  if that is the case they don't need all the airport bases for servicing etc. Fuerteventura didn't have a base so that shouldn't affect us apart from any rationalizing of schedules.

Have to say it is the supply and demand situation, last week booked our June / July flights from to Manchester with RA (avoiding school holidays) £140 dearer Angry Angry Angry than last year but still cheaper than Jet2.
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Just a thought, but if the 737 max were allowed to fly again would anyone chance using them?
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