Ryanair - Liverpool to Pisa

Oh no!! That was what happened with the Liverpool Ancona route... didn't show and then... didn't go!!!I thought that was a busy one that would keep going... not altogether convinced about Ryanair's plans, but no doubt there is method in his madness (or more profit in other routes).

we went from Liverpool to Ancona,  drove for 50 mins, visited a few places, bought a house, then................ now we fly to Rome and motor few a good few hours ,but its a fairly good autostrada and pretty direct although I dont like the autosrada Adriatico, too many wagons!! The worse thing is our flight leaves at 06:30 and although we only live 10 mins from Lpool airport, and my wife wont drive in Italy, I`m b......y knackered at the end of the journey.I hate Ryanair with a vengence and if there was an alternative, (believe me when I say we have checked everything!) I would use it, even if it cost me more. I`ll stop now before I really go off on one!! 

We are just about equi distant between Liverpool and Manchester, and tried jet2.com in May flying Manchester to Rome, went very well, in fact we paid the extra to have numbered seats, quite novel after some years of cheap flights not to have the scrum to sit together..  Can just about cope with Ryanair for a weekend trip, too much hassle if you are taking baggage...

I have just come back and I am wondering what is going to happen. The flight was  almost full and last winter's flights were reasonably busy. I have looked at other Pisa flights and most seemed not to be scheduled. Hopefully there will be some loaded. Could it be to do with the rescheduling of the manchester Ryanair flights they have withdrawn?Liverpool airport say they don't have Ryanair flight confirmations yet. If anyone finds out please let me know.

I bought a carry on case to Ryanair's specifications, and thought no-one would be stinger than Mr O'Leary so didn't even check measurements in May... had to pay £15 to have it put into the hold.... as I say to my kids, always check the small print...

Just got an email to say my partners flight from Pisa/Dublin/Pisa already booked for mid November has now been cancelled.Oh well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Ryanair Birmingham, to Pisa flights seem to be running through the winter ( at least they are on the web site for booking) Leeds Pisa seem to be on for next spring but the Liverpool Pisa flights are not showing up yet. The other Northern alternative is to go via Paris or Munich with one of the scheduled  carriers

As I understand, Ryanair's business model is based upon a rapid turnaround of their aircraft. Landing charges are almost secondary despite what may published in the press.  If an airport cannot deliver a fast changeover then this will throw out their schedule. I believe this was the reason they pulled Calabria and why Pisa may be a problem.

We have checked flights from Bristol to Pisa via Easy Jet, which used to fly 3 times a week during the winter and now find that from Nov to April they will only fly once a week on a Saturday. I think cut backs are affecting evry airline this winter; which is suprising as when I flew din JAnuary and Feb this year evry flight was packed....

The issue with Ryanair is not how busy the flights are - they can always fill flights if they charge very low prices - but how much revenue they are getting per flight.  It is simply not sustainable to be flying with planes full of people who have paid on £5 for their seat, hence the cancellations of what people think are popular routes. We first visited le Marche on flights from Liverpool that cost £73 for 4 of us at Easter - clearly that was never going to last -sadly for us the flight was pulled the week we signed the papers to buy our house.  We now go via Rome if it is a short trip or drive if we are going for 2 weeks.  Not ideal but you have to make the best of what is available.  At least with Tuscany there are a lot of options - in Le Marche there is only Stanstead to Ancona or the various rome options and summer is not much better than winter. Chris

Not being able to book for Christmas Pisa-Liverpool, I toyed for a few days with the idea of Pisa-Birmingham which still seems to operate twice weekly in winter. Decided to make the booking  after all but as I pressed the final OK confirmation button an ERROR page came up (again) which told me I may be booked and would be re-directed but never was. Next morning had to phone the service number costing €1.83pm and although only on for a few minutes was told I was not booked and to try again. In my annoyance I grudgingly started to re-book thinking the price may have gone up in the meantime and to my surprise it was €55 cheaper!!!!!!!!!! Don't you just love 'em?