New flights to Alghero: Cheap flights carrier Ryanair will launch seven new flights to Memmingen next month

Flights from the southern German town of Memmingen Allgäu, just off the fronierts of Austria and Switzerland, will travel to Alghero (Sardinia), Alicante, Barcelona (Girona), Barcelona (Reus), Dublin, Stansted and Pisa.

"Memmingen, which is approximately 100km west of Munich, provides Ryanair with a first and ideal gateway to southern Germany and the Bavarian region," Ryanair Officials said..

Just a few weeks ago Ryanair announced flights from Alghero to Graz (Austria), Billund (Denmark), Eindhoven (Netherlands) as well as national destinations Parma, Verona und Ancona.

More Route and Flight Cuts at Dublin. No cuts for Dublin Alghero

Ryanair, Ireland’s largest airline, today (16th Mar) announced a further series of route, flight and frequency cuts at Dublin Airport from July, as the impact of the €10 tourist tax and other Government price hikes cause numbers at Dublin to decline – down 12% in February alone. Ryanair confirmed that these latest cuts were being implemented in response to the decision of the Government owned Irish Aviation Authority to increase ATC charges by 12% this summer, at more than 12 times the rate of inflation.

From July 2009 Ryanair will close four routes from Dublin to Basel, Doncaster, Oporto and Teesside, and reduce frequencies on eight more routes from Dublin to Aberdeen, Biarritz, Billund, Bournemouth, Carcassonne, East Midlands, Malaga and Rome (Ciampino). These cuts will result in one additional based aircraft (five in total) being switched from high cost Dublin Airport to a low cost Ryanair European base in July.

Ryanair flights from Dublin to Alghero are not concerned by cuts and reductions, so far.

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New flights to Alghero from Billund, Eindhoven, Hamburg Lübeck, Graz, Parma, Verona and Ancona

Ryanair announced new flights to Alghero starting from June: Billund in Denmark and the Dutch airport of Eindhoven as well as the German airport of Hamburg Lübeck and Graz in Austria are on the 2009 summer schedule. New national destinations are Parma, Verona and Ancona.

Ryanair To Go 100% Web Check-In From October and closes all traditional airport check in desks

Ryanair, Europe’s announced it will move to 100% web check-in from 1st October 2009. This move will allow all passengers, including those travelling with checked baggage, to check-in online thereby avoiding time wasting queues and delays at airport check-in desks.

Ryanair’s web check-in service is open from 15 days to 4 hours before the scheduled departure time of each flight. Web check-in can be accessed via ryanair.com using booking confirmation numbers or flight details to retrieve each reservation.

Having printed their boarding cards at home passengers without check-in bags can continue to proceed directly through airport security while those with check-in bags can simply present at one of Ryanair’s “drop desks” before proceeding through airport security to the boarding gate. This will free passengers from wasting hours at airports prior to departure and will dramatically reduce travel times for all Ryanair passengers.

Ryanair will phase in the introduction of its 100% web check-in as follows:

· Phase 1: From 19th March 2009, Ryanair’s web check-in service will be extended to (a) non EU/EEA citizens, (b) passengers travelling with checked baggage and (c) reduced mobility customers.

Customers choosing web check-in and travelling with only carry-on bags will continue to enjoy this service free of charge. A web check-in fee of £5/€5 per person/per flight will apply to passengers travelling with checked baggage, while customers who wish to use airport check-in will be charged an airport check-in fee of £10/€10 per person/per flight at the time of booking.

· Phase 2: From 1st May 2009 all new bookings will be required to use web check-in, and the use of traditional airport check-in desks will be phased out over the summer months. The web check-in fee of £5/€5 per person, per flight will apply to all new bookings (except promotional fares) from 1st May 2009. In order to dissuade passengers from using airport check-in desks, the fee for airport check-in will double to £20/€20 per person/per flight at the time of booking.

· Phase 3: From 1st October 2009 airport check-in desks will no longer be available at any Ryanair airport. All passengers will be required to web check-in and those who have checked in bags will use the airport “bag drop” desks, if required. From this date, children under the age of 16 will no longer be able to travel unaccompanied and passports and national ID cards will be the only accepted forms of photo ID on Ryanair flights.

Ryanair insults bloggers about o Euro booking screenshots. Is it a Marketing strategy?

Jason Roe wrote in his blog about what he thinks is a bug in RyanAir’s website. Some RyanAir employees saw it and left some pretty rude comments.

Ryanair's (Social) Marketing Strategy is some sort of “Any publicity is good publicity” and Guerillia Marketing actions.

This Blog post fom Jason Roe caught attention in the UK, Germany, Italy and many other countries and guaranteed free coverage for Ryanair! However, there are not going to be any customers that ever booked a Ryanair flight because they offer customer-oriented and friendly service and user-friendly and well designed website. Then again - isn't strange that blog author Jason Roe announces his presence at the Irish Blog Awards? Did this news posting help the Blogger to gain attention as well?