Ryanair

[tikay]

re: your ba shares

didn't warren buffet say that no industry has pissed share holder capital against the wall quite like the airline industry?

Yup. After I purchased my BA Holding.

He was wrong about Ryanair's Shares though - what a great investment they were!

Ryanair is modelled on (copied frrom, in fact) an American Low-Cost Airline, SouthWest Airlines, which Buffett thinks is a quite splendid exception to standard industry thinking. As are Ryanair, with Easy-Jet rather less so.

[Rooky9]

The impact of 9/11 and it's contribution to the low cost airlines growth is also pretty interesting. You have to admire what is probably best described as balls I guess.  It's all such simple stuff too, yet you still get companies trying to go against porter's Market strategies and failing badly!

[WYSINWYG]

I think I had a nearmiss incident last night, went through the cheap flight general websites, which took me to edreams dot com, pretty good deals on there. I very nearly booked the flight on there but it appeared to be a 'No frills', so I went to Ryanair direct. Ryanair's website plastered with info about EU lawsuit with airfare screenscrapers, mentioning edreams directly. Wonder if they'll even honour flights booked via edreams and the like any more?

Some pretty tasty deals on offer at the mo however, return to Faro mid december for 20 quid all in, I won't begrudge them the 40 percent debit card fee...

[Pyso]

Never mind the economics of Ryan Air, I'll be impressed when they do a landing which I actually feel confident I'll survive.