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Ryanair continues to sell flights at bus price and still earns a lot of money. Your business starts after check-in

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An any of April. Madrid-Milán for 15 euros. The passenger clicks “accept” without thinking. At five clicks – 10 kilos pole, seat selection, priority boarding -, The amount already exceeds 60. Uugh. Ryanair is enough that arithmetic as simple as relentless to show off record benefits while their rivals scratch cents or directly lose money. Where is the magic? Why does its cost structure seem unbeatable? Accounts against intuition Ryanair’s last fiscal year closed with a benefit of almost 2,000 million and a solid growth over 2023: 1,920 million euros of net profit. Year -on -year growth of 34%. 13,440 million euros in income. 183.7 million transported passengers. Average occupation of 94% in its airplanes. All according to Your annual report of 2024. By 2025 it plans to go further, and it is already on the way to exceed 200 million travelers. In a sector where even Lufthansa (4%) or Air France-KLM (2%) barely reach margins of a digit, Ryanair moves comfortably in the environment of 14-15%net profitability, according to Capa analysis. Let’s see why. It does not give benefits to fly, but for everything else Ryanair has been refining a mantra for years: disaggregate the trip to the last screw and collect for everything that happens before, during and after the seat of the plane. There are several concepts there, but first of all, one stands out: that of the Auxiliary incomewhich reached 4.3 billion euros in 2024, one third of the billing, and 23.4 euros per passenger, according to their results report. What are they? Luggage. From the cabin suitcase to billing. From 12 or 13 euros to 75 euros according to the season. Seat and priority. Choose place, travel with the family or the group in contiguous seats or embark first, part of 3 or 4 euros and can reach 35 euros. Sales on board. From snacks and drinks to raffles or Duty-Free. Third Party Commissions. Hotels, rental cars, insurance … Everything is inserted in the purchase flow to capture margin without even their own inventory. Subscriptions and gift cards. As choice fidelity programs. We could put in the equation even to institutional advertising. A reef. Cantabria is paying 18 million euros in four years for Ryanair to “promote” the brand on its website and maintain routes, he revealed eldiario.es. This proposal touches the Freemium And in fact nine years ago The CEO said That “within five to ten years, prices will be free, in that case the flights will be full”, referring to the possibility of monetizing both the aforementioned roads, and with the distribution of airport income. It is not something that has happened or seems that it will happen, at least within the period. The cost that fits in a backpack Ryanair presumes that Fly costs 34 euros per passengernot counting the fuel. The figure comes from an internal slide projected in Milan and exhibited by The Flight Club. If we crumble it … Staff: 8 euros. It lowers it with multipurpose crews and flexible contracts. Airport and Handling: 8 euros. It resorts to local subsidies, bases in secondary (cheaper) airports and the payment of minimum rates Property and maintenance. 8 euros. Its homogeneous fleet of Boeing 737 that lowers with mass orders that derive in large discounts. Routes and navigation. 6 euros. It resorts to point flights, without connections that make the final price more expensive. Others. 4 euros. Little for a minimal business structure and the use of free or low cost viral marketing. To compare: Easyjet, your rival Low Costhas a cost of more than double, 79 euros per person. Wizz Air leaves it at 52 euros. Always without counting the fuel. The traditional ones, such as Lufthansa, can go above 160 euros. That is what we add the increasing number of people who fly with Ryanair. There are four key levers that are worth highlighting: Unique and dense fleet. Those mentioned 737 (has more than half a thousand of thema good part of those of 197 places) consume 16% less fuel per seat and add 4% capacity. Simple mathematics. Express rotation. Since an airplane touches wheels until it takes again as soon as half an hour passes. That allows each plane to fly more hours and distribute amortization on more flights and more seats. Digital approach. He Check-in face -to -face costs 55 euros. A deterrence for most, a tariff for the accommodation in the analog. The result is that 99% do it online and Ryanair barely needs counter. AND wants to go further. Low profile airports. Stansted instead of Heathrow, Beauvais instead of Charles de Gaulle. Rates can be up to 80% cheaper and times direct and indirect public aid in order to preserve routes can compensate. The undercover subsidies, by the way, are overcoming borders and Morocco is following that wake. Spain, perfect laboratory The relationship of Spain with Ryanair is unique. This airline It controls almost 20% of flights that land or take off in Spain. The following in the ranking, at a certain distance, are also Low Cost. Besides, Spain is Ryanair’s second marketonly behind Italy and above the United Kingdom, with 2,416 million euros in revenue last year. However, the Fine of 179 million euros to airlines Low Cost imposed by the Ministry of Consumer in November also Ryanair splashed fully, who was charged 108 of those millionsreceivable hand luggage. O’Leary, the CEO, in its unbridled line, He called “Crazy Communist” Minister Pablo Bustinduy at a press conference threatened to cut routes in protest of what he considered an “illegal” fine. These types of orders are not isolated, but a usual play: it is enough to pronounce that threat to, very often, get the authorities to give up, although sometimes it does not happen and in fact Spain is getting tired of them. Is what has happened for example In Valladolid and Jerez this year. Some airports depend on their traffic in 60%, Ryanair knows it and plays with it in his favor to … Read more

If the question is “I can wear a free hand suitcase with Ryanair”, the response of justice is: it depends

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Win and lose. And along the way a fine continues to float a fine and the consequences derived from it. The sanction to Ryanair receives an extra cost in the hand suitcase continues to leave us sentences and one thing is clear: neither the justice itself agrees. A fine. It all starts last November. One is confirmed Historical fine to four operators. Of these, Ryanair is the most affected. The sanction is 107.78 million euros and is imposed to breach the rights of passengers to carry a hand suitcase without extra cost. At least that is what the government that sanctions the company through consumption. Ryanair, on the contrary, has another opinion. Yes, it accepts that there is a regulation that allows free hand luggage to be carried out but it shields that there are no established measures for it. As there is no “standard” suitcase, they charge to carry the luggage that can be transferred to the winery. What are Ryanair’s conditions? First of all, what we have to know is that Ryanair does let a lump to the cabin. But that is, exclusively a lump that does not exceed the measures of 40 x 20 x 25 cm. That size does not comply with those considered as cabin bags that extend up to 55 x 40 x 20 cm and 10 kg of weight. In that case, in carrying with us a trolley to the cabin of the plane, we will have to pay the fee Regular or priority that opens the door to that usual suitcase in the planes and a second lump such as a backpack or a bag. This game with the diffuse areas of the law, that of not being defined in any regulations what are the exact measures of a suitcase, is the one that the Irish company grabs to defend its position before the demands of the users. Ryanair wins. At least in Seville. There, the company has made the resource of a client who was forced to pay for the cabin suitcase does not prosper. Section 2 of the Mercantile Court of Seville has dismissed the demand filed by the traveler, they explain since The world. The client understood that they were charging 12 euros on a round trip (six per trip) illegally. However, the Sevillian court buys the defense of Ryanair: it is not true that it is prevented from flying with a free suitcase, what Ryanair prevents is accessing with a suitcase superior to the dimensions of 40 x 20 x 25 cm. And they point out that the client was allowed “to carry a lump of reasonable dimensions.” Ryanair loses. At least in Salamanca. There, the company has to return 147 euros to a passenger receivable the cabin suitcase in five different routes between 2019 and 2024, they point out in eldiario.es. The affected person is a Facua partner, an association through which they have filed their demand. In this case, the passenger denounced that the company had forced him to choose the rate Priority to be able to access the cabin of the plane with your hand luggage in which it only wore basic clothes and equipment. The judge has based her decision that “hand luggage is an indispensable element of passenger transport (…) cannot be subject to price supplement,” they collect in The world. Beyond specific cases. What we have, in addition to two contradictory sentences, is that the battle between Ryanair and the Government continues. On the one hand, from the Executive they defend the consumption decision and, on the other, Ryanair continues to show that the sentences in which they obtain favorable results They are certification that the company “fully complies with the legislation of the European Union.” The problem for passengers is that the pulse between Ryanair and Government has overflowed and is affecting peripheral airports, where the company had a substantial role in air traffic and where is marching as a pressure measure To the Executive. In fact, the company has insisted that if Aena’s rates do not fall in the future (the excuse to reduce the presence in these places) will continue to derive its operations To other places. Operations like its new line to Morocco that despite the low volume of occupation keeps open thanks to a government doping. Doping that, by the way, We have also applied in Spain. Photo | Fotis In Xataka | Choosing seat to fly has become a luxury. Now Ryanair has his own subscription to assure you

Spain made the subsidies covered to Ryanair an art. Now another country follows its path: Morocco

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Ryanair will stop offering 800,000 places This summer of 2025 in Spain. It was an announcement that fell like a bomb in the middle of the dispute that government and airline have open in relation to the rates that Aena charges the companies that operate in their airports. According to Ryanair, Las Aena rates They are abusive and from the company that manages Spanish airports they defend themselves ensuring that they are essential to guarantee, among other services, the security or cleaning of the facilities. The problem is that Aena had these frozen rates from 2021 and thus had to remain until 2026. However, last year they rose and although The CNMC frozen the rate againnow companies pay 4.9% more than before. In the middle of the dispute, Ryanair was also fined by the State for breaching, in his opinion, the regulations of the hand luggage. Together with other low-cost companies such as Vueling, Norweigan, Easyjet or Volotea, the Irish company was punished but it was also the one that took the worst part: a sanction of 107.78 million euros. This cluster of circumstances led the company to press where it hurts the most in Spanish air mobility: Provinces airports. Ryanair announced that he partially abandoned the airports of Vigo, Santiago, Zaragoza, Asturias and Santander. But, above all, he announced that he was completely left by Jerez and Valladolid. The movement has not been there because In its February statementRyanair already announced that he considered taking action in the same direction if the context did not change. A threat that has recently reiterated. However, then Eddie Wilson, his CEO, already pointed out that “Aena’s decision not to encourage airlines to use the missed capacity of their regional airports has forced Ryanair to relocate aircraft and capacity in more competitive European markets, such as Italy, Sweden, Croatia, Hungary and Morocco, where governments encourage actively growth. “ Now we check the consequences. Empty seats “Ryanair’s airplanes They will attend where there is business opportunity, whether by direct market or by public subsidy. “This is how Víctor P. currás summarizes in The Faro de Vigo The situation with which they have been found in the Galician city with the 61% reduction of the activity of the Irish company in its city. When Wilson pointed out that they would fly to countries “where governments incentive” did not lie. Ryanair has closed a line between Vigo and Barcelona that maintained an average occupation of 90% in favor of a New route to Morocco where just 9% of the seats are busy. These flights are those corresponding to the route that Ryanair has opened with origin in Madrid or Lanzarote and destination Daklha, a Moroccan city in the Sahara that is trying to promote itself as an active tourism. It is another measure within a project you want Transform the city into an economic complex reference in the area. The intention is to turn the city into a showcase for the world during the 2030 World Cup (What Morocco shares with Spain). This is the reason why Ryanair flies with such a low occupation to the Moroccan city. Fatim-Zahra Ammor, Minister of Tourism of Morocco, announced the arrival of the company A few months ago. Behind, obviously, a juicy subsidy in the form of an advertising contract for Ryanair. They collect in the Galician environment that the occupation rate has been poor. The best data has arrived from Madrid with just over 50% occupation. However, the reserved places have been deflating on the Route of Lanzarote to the point of not even reaching 10% of the total offer. This way of acting is nothing less new. In fact, in eldiario.es They explained well that the subsidies camouflaged as advertising contracts to keep the routes in provincial airports alive are a constant for years. By suppuerto, Ryanair has benefited in this way to act. Three examples. The Cantabria government delivered 18 million euros in public promotion to Ryanair. Vigo maintained a route with London in exchange for a disbursement of 625,000 euros in the form of an advertising contract. With the suppression of this connection, Vigo wants sanction the airline with more than 17,000 euros for breaking the contract unilaterally. In 2019, Ryanair maintained routes in Spain by value of 239 million euros of public moneyaccording to ELECONOMIST. Ryanair now applies in Morocco the same formula he has applied in Spain. The company has used Spanish airports in the provinces to press and, aware that New aircraft will not reach them In the short term, these advertising contracts are especially juicy when reorganizing their routes. Photo | Nastya Dulhiier In Xataka | Ryanair does not “fine” if you lose your flight: simply relieved you in the following for a cost of 100 euros

Ryanair tense the rope more and threatens the government with removing more regional airport flights

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This summer, Ryanair will offer 800,000 places less in Spanish airports. It is the announcement that the company made last January as a counterweight measure to what it considers abusive Aena. Now, the company threatens the government again with withdrawing journeys from its less busy lines. 800,000 seats. They announced him last January and the plan is already being carried out. Ryanair will offer 800,000 seats less this summer with the elimination of routes within Spain or the reduction of some of the existing ones. In its statement, the company indicated that the reason for this reduction in the offered journeys were “the excessive rates and the lack of effectiveness of the ‘incentive plans’ of the AENA monopolistic airport operator, which are completely ineffective to support the growth policy of the growth of regional airports.” The affected airports. In its statement, Ryanair specified which airports are those that would suffer a reduction in the offered routes and in which would completely close their operations: Jerez: Closing Valladolid: Closing Vigo: 61% less journeys Santiago 28% less journeys Zaragoza: 20% less journeys Asturias: 11% less journeys Santander: 5% less journeys Where it hurts: Ryanair knows the force it has In these airports and, therefore, it has been their pressure measure against the rates that Aena charges in them. In Valladolid, for example, the number of trips has been drastically reduced and the company’s departure is dismissal. Valladolid is just an example of the fall in international operations caused by Ryanair’s departure. In Santander, for example, his departure causes that only the Canary Islands, Madrid and Barcelona can fly. International trips will be injured in death. Jerez aspired to recover the number of travelers before the COVID-19 pandemic in 2025 but Ryanair’s march It should prevent this from happening. What is paid. Ryanair is aware of the fragility of these routes. Their volume is low, so, they say, they prefer to reorganize these planes and send them to routes that have been growing. In fact, if the company had been operating in these places, it is because there were many facilities by Aena (which Ryanair does not consider enough) and for the interest of regional governments. Airlines charged rates have a cost of 10.35 euros per passenger and are used to guarantee basic services such as cleaning or safety at airports. From Aena they insist that They are “of the lowest in Europe”although in 2021 a freezing was announced until 2026 but in 2024 they rose 4.9%. At the end of last year, CNMC frozen prices again by 2025. Yes, but bonus. However, in airports with less passenger volume, Aena’s fees have multiple bonuses in order to attract a greater number of airlines, to the point that the company can pay only two euros per passenger, according to the AENA last proposal. But, in addition, there is another reason why companies maintain flights in these airports: undercover subsidies. In eldiario.es They explain how regional governments deliver under advertising contracts. So, The Cantabria government delivered 18 million euros Ryanair last summer and Vigo disbursed 625,000 euros to guarantee the Vigo-London route For three years. “Terminal Decadence”. With these words, Eddie Wilson, CEO of the company, has described, which in his opinion is getting the government with regional airports. Words have expressed them in an interview to electionomista.es and in it he has threatened to get more flights from Spain if the course of policies in relation to rates is not changed. “There will be more cuts in the winter of 2025, and even more in the summer of 2026, because it makes no sense to continue investing in deficit operations. The rational decision is to move the traffic where the access costs are falling, not increasing, so we will continue to do so little by little. We have no plans to invest in regional airports because its price structure is broken,” says Wilson in his interview. Without specifying what these cuts would be, Wilson points out that “regional airports are underutilized by 70%, so something does not work. Or people do not want to go to the regions, or airlines do not want to put airplanes there.” More tensions. From Aena, he collects the digital medium, ignores Ryanair’s threats and emphasize that “when Ryanair recovers their presence, we will be institutionally receiving them with open arms”, in the words of its President Maurici Lucena. And emphasize that current policies “allow deficit airports to remain open in optimal conditions without appealing Spanish taxpayers.” At the same time, from Vigo they have sanctioned the company with 17,414 euros of fine for unilaterally reducing the flights scheduled last summer. The company has resorted to but Vigo’s City Council has rejected its writing. In addition, Vigo understands that he has breached the aforementioned contract of advertising when considering that the company has unilaterally broken it, so a sanctioning file for this reason is also underway. And it is not the last controversy that the company has starred in recent weeks. Although the decision aimed to apply this summer, Ryanair has announced that next winter will apply a zero paper policy with which he aspires to bind passengers To use only digital shipping cards and use your mobile phone. Photo | Nejc Soklič In Xataka | Spain has tired of Ryanair’s practices. And the airline is going to hit where it hurts the most: the provinces airports

The five essential accessories to travel comfortably by plane (although they fly with Ryanair)

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Traveling cheap has already become a hobby for many and social networks have been filled with traveler profiles and users sharing their experiences in different countries. If you are one of those who usually travel a lot in low cost companies like Ryanair or Vueling Or you have the purpose of traveling more, these are the five accessories that I recommend and that you can not miss in your adventures. Cabin backpack Cabin Metz by 34.95 euros: with 24 -liter capacity and suitcase type opening. Bluetooth headphones Anker P40i Soundcore by 45.99 euros: With autonomy of up to 60 hours and noise cancellation. Electronic book Amazon Kindle by 99 euros: With 16 GB of memory and 6 -inch screen. Mini External battery Veektomx by 19.20 euros: 10,000 mAh and USB-A and USB-C ports. Two pack Bluetooth locators by 15.99 euros: Compatible with iOS and Android devices. Two pack Anti -theft belts For trips by 13.99 euros: Adjustable and with hidden pocket. Three pack Coleteros To save money for 6.39 euros: With zipper pocket. Cabin Metz cabin backpack It is increasingly common to travel without billing, especially due to the high costs of including a suitcase in the plane ticket. For some time, cabin backpacks have been popularized and this Cabin Metz It is one of the ones I recommend. You can buy it for 34.95 euros. Tiktok has been the social network in which this type of backpacks have been popularized, but be careful because not all of them comply with the measures required by the airlines. This does measures 40x30x20 cm and has 24 liters of capacity. Only weighs 600 grams and its Suitcase type opening It allows maximizing space. It also has a large number of pockets. Cabin Max Metz Backpack 40x30x20 * Some price may have changed from the last review Aker P40I Bluetooth Soundcore Sound headphones Imagine that on your flight there are many children or that it even touches you a very talkative passenger to the side and you do not feel like talking to anyone. So, some bluetooth headphones are the solution. These Anker P40i Soundcore They are a good option and now they cost 45.99 euros. These Wireless headphones Anker offers an autonomy of up to 60 hours (more than enough time for any flight. They come with cancellation of adaptive noise and its Load case you can use as support for mobile; Something perfect in case you plan to watch movies or series on the plane. ANKER P40I SOUNDCORE Bluetooth wireless headphones with adaptive noise cancellation * Some price may have changed from the last review Electronic Book Amazon Kindle Many people take advantage of their trips by plane to read. With luggage weight restrictions, an electronic book such as the Kindle It is one of those devices that should not be missing in your suitcase or backpack. Now, at Amazon, you can buy for 99 euros. This Kindle It is the most basic model of Amazon. It has a 6 -inch screen with integrated reading light. Only weighs 158 grams and comes with 16 GB of internal memory. Its battery also offers autonomy for weeks. New Amazon Kindle (16 GB) * Some price may have changed from the last review Mini External Battery Veektomx Another essential gadget that cannot be missing in your trips, especially if you are to take many photos, is a External battery. This veektomx is ultra compact, so it will fit, without problem in your luggage. Now you can buy it for 19.20 euros. This mini portable battery It has a capacity of 10,000 mAh and only weighs 169 grams. It has a USB-A port compatible with QC 3.0 of 18 W and another UB-C that works with PD/QC 3.0 of 20 W. In addition, this USB-C port It works as entrance and exit. Veektomx mini external battery fast charging 10000mah * Some price may have changed from the last review Bluetooth locator pack Bluetooth locators are that type of gadgets that do not know their usefulness until the tests. When traveling, they are perfect for have your luggage under control At all times. Now, at Amazon, it has this pack of two of the Amoron firm is a bar 15.99 euros. These Bluetooth locators They are compatible with iOS and Android devices. With just pressing the alert button in the app, you will know where your backpack or suitcase is, since it emits a strong sound of 100 dB. Amorom Smart Air Tracker Tag 2 Pack * Some price may have changed from the last review TWO TRAVEL Belt for travel Traveling with money to a country where tourists are the white of scams, it can be something that worries. But, today, there are solutions to carry money in a totally safe way, like this Antirrobos belt. The Back of Two Cuesta now 13.99 euros In Amazon. This belt has a hidden pocketin which you can save your money and documents and be safe from the portero. It is a 120 cm long and totally adjustable belt. It is made of resistant nylon and has robust plastic buckle. Rafiyu 2 pieces hidden portfolio and anti -theft belt * Some price may have changed from the last review Three colleagues pack to save money Yes, you are not reading badly but there are coleteros in which you can keep money and avoid stealing the porterists During your trips. Now, at Amazon, you can get the pack of three units by 6.39 euros. Each of these colleagues has a zipper pocket in which you can save your money or other small objects. Not only can it be used in your hair, but you can also put it on your wrist. 3 pcs for velvet hair with zipper * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Freepik, Cabin Metz, Anker, … Read more

Choosing seat to fly has become a luxury. Now Ryanair has his own subscription to assure you

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Offer the basics to travel. A seat and (for the moment) a hand suitcase. This is how operators have done business Low Cost When it comes to flying. Eliminate everything that the client can consider accessory to lower the basic prices of tickets. For the rest, you have to go through the box. But if you are fed up with all this, Ryanair proposes another option: Subscribe to his flights. A subscription to Ryanair. Ryanair Prime. This is the name of the new service that The company is offering on its website. For 79 euros a year, the Low Cost airline offers you a series of exclusive advantages within its membership: Priority sale on selected flights Exclusive discounts for some flights Free selection for the member and a companion According to the company, if we want to choose a seat every time we travel this subscription, it is profitable from three flights since we would stop paying 105 euros. That is, in case of flying three times the traveler would be saving 26 euros in total. If we fly twelve times, savings can reach 420 euros. The 12 flights. The mention of savings of those 12 flights is not accidental. As read in the Subscription terms and conditionsthe client can choose a seat up to twelve occasions for him and the companion. That is, it is understood that this benefit in the subscription only reaches the first 12 trips of the year. (Lot) small print. When promoting this service, the company has emphasized advantages such as travel insurance to cancel a flight as a result of an injury or disease (excluding COVID-19), the theft of the luggage or the delay of other flights. Of course, it is specified that those over 70 are excluded from disease coverage. It is not the only aspect that attention must be paid since the reserve of seats has its own peculiarities. Yes, it is true that the member can choose free seat for him and the companion but always and when they opt for seats that do not imply an extra cost in their selection. Ryanair points out that, therefore, it is not guaranteed that the member of the subscription and the traveler can travel accompanied by each other since it will depend on the available seats that allow a free change or the random assignment by the company. The seat business. When it comes to eliminating all the accessory of a flight, one of the first spotlights in which Ryanair attention was in the selection of seats. The company, like so many other low cost, knows that the client is willing to pay for them to travel accompanied, to have more leg space or to leave before the plane (choosing the front seats) once he has landed. In 2023, The Telegraph It echoed a study in which the airlines of the seat choice service were specified. According to him, Ryanair was the fifth company that took the most benefit, with 3,280 million pounds a year. But it was the Low Costa company that made the most money in this regard. Keep in mind that Delta (6,550 million pounds), United Airlines ((6,460 million pounds), American Airlines (6,320 million pounds) and Southwest Airlines (4,870 million pounds) offer much longer flights and the cost of choosing a seat is also superior. A seat and nothing more. As you can see in the superior image, Ryanair takes into account various services that are gradually more than the price of the ticket. With the basic rate it is possible to travel for 15 euros in a Madrid-Cagliari, for example, but you will not have the right to choose a seat and will have to adapt to the suitcase for the smallest possible hand luggage. In addition, rates play to offer and remove services to propose the most expensive alternative as the most interesting. Thus, the option Regular It allows to carry a larger cabin in the cabin (up to 10 kg) but this is not available if we want to bill a 20 kg suitc Plus. Nor is the priority shipment available in the latter used by the Regular. The controversy of the suitcase. As we see, the subscription service completely omits the possibility of carrying a hand suitcase on board which, without a doubt, is the company’s last great controversy. In Spain, Low cost have been fined For not allowing the passage with hand suitcases, Ryanair being with a fine of more than 107 million euros the most punished. The company defends itself by ensuring that it does allow access to the aircraft with hand luggage but that this It must be a maximum 40 centimeters high, 20 centimeters wide and 25 centimeters deep. These measures are equivalent to a bag or backpack but the typical troley used on trips is usually larger. In that case, if this last suitcase has not been added when making the reservation and does not enter the measures, The company charges a 46 euros supplement. However, the Ministry of Consumer does not consider that the basic rate contemplates the obligation to allow access to the plane with a hand suitc Insults answered Pablo BustinduyMinister of Consumption, by Michael O’Leary, CEO of Ryanair. But, above all, applying pressure with The exit of airports with lower traffic of the country. Photo | Markus Winkler In Xataka | Spain has tired of Ryanair’s practices. And the airline is going to hit where it hurts the most: the provinces airports

Going to space is going from a great aspiration of humanity to a “Ryanair with rockets”

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When Andy Davis opened his birthday gifts that afternoon of 1995, I was about to certify One of the most important changes of the cultural imaginary of the American twentieth century: the death of Western and the consecration of the astronaut as a great aspirational figure. Because, forgive me the expression, but how astronauts were cool. We talked about people who prepared for decades, who risked their life every fighter second and who achieved feats that we, simple mortals, could not even imagine. There was nothing more glamorous and guay than to be an astronaut. Now The thing has changed. The life cycle of all means of transport. When the train was invented, first There was curiosity. Then, fear. Later, luxury. And finally, The Rodalías de Barcelona either The Extremadura train. It is a law of life: a kind of Kübless model of the social perception of the means of transport. The same thing happened with the planes. From the first test flights we move on to Spirit of Sant Luisthen to the luxurious airplanes of the 60s And, now, a manifestly bad service that we usually associate with lowcost airlines, but that affects the entire sector. In space, we are living that process and we are living it very quickly. But why? In the background, what we are seeing is the logical development of the privatization of the space race. And, as we have been pointing for years, what has been privatized now is not space. The space has been privatized for many years. What we are living is the privatization of spatial sleep. Or, in other words, what we have seen is the birth of companies that are knowing how to take advantage of space rhetoric to find financing (winning the large agencies). Behind all that space rhetoric … The new space race does not “become an interplanetary species” or take “tourists to space.” The new special career goes, for now, to finance the development of an infrastructure Very expensive, very lucrative and that will be indispensable in the future. When Jeff Bezos said that the great battle is in whom it is responsible for taking out the devices from the earth (the basic infrastructure of the new space race or, as he said, The ‘Amazon Web Services’ of space) He was right, but fell short. There is Many critical services They will depend on what happens up there. Tourism (and the ‘banalization’ of space) is key in all this. Since Dennis Tito became the first space tourist In 2001 (and counting The six of Jesús Calleja’s last trip) About 84 people have gone to space to do something we could call “tourism.” That is to say, Jesús Calleja is a symptom of that progressive banalization of space, yes; But we already had many previous examples. The key is to take the analysis one step further: in understanding that the ‘democratization’ of space trips come to replace the spatial epic of the cold war years. It is its “aggiornamento”, its contemporary version: the story that serves to continue moving the gears of the development of the space industry. That is why it makes sense that a television star goes to space, so it makes sense wanting to lower costs, so it makes sense to take many people. Because as with the lowcostthe business is another. And, in normal conditions, it would be very interesting. After all, the twentieth century has taught us that every euro invested in space It is a euro invested in improving the conditions of this planet. Historically, The return of investment is huge And that has been one of the great levers that have allowed us to continue investing in it. However, as the years go by and we see that the business career derives quickly in A power struggleit is worth asking if the transfer of knowledge will remain so effective. If, in one way or another, the privatization of space will also be the privatization of all the good we can learn from it. Image | Club of the Future In Xataka | If the space industry wants to democratize tourism, it must overcome several challenges. Like space smells good

We already know how big the hole that Ryanair will leave in the small cities of Spain will leave: 640,000 squares

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He will leave Jerez and Valladolid. And will drastically reduce its operations in Vigo. It will also offer less flights at the airports of Santiago de Compostela, Zaragoza, Asturias and Santander. That is Ryanair’s decision made In response to AENA rates that consider excessive and the lack of incentives to maintain airlines. In total, it is estimated that 643,000 seats will be lost With the departure of the company Low-Cost of these airports or the reduction of their activity from this summer. The company’s numbers point to a reduction in the offer of 800,000 places But a small part of these seats will be compensated with the arrival of other airlines or the increase in their activity. Incentives and rates in the center of the conflict With Ryanair’s departure, it is also confirmed that it is the minor airports that more will suffer from summer. Valladolid is undoubtedly the city that in relative terms more passengers loses. This summer will have 96,000 seats less. It will go from the 154,000 seats offered in 2024 to just 60,000 places, which represents a reduction of 61%. However, in absolute terms, Santiago de Compostela airport is the one that will lose the most passengers from all over Spain. Next summer will have 334,000 less places, which is a reduction of 11.4% compared to last year’s programming. A blow to a city that has in the summer a wave of tourism arrived from the Camino de Santiago. Among the most affected airports, Zaragoza is another of the places where its departure will most be noticed, losing 113,000 seats that represent 18.5% of the operations. Santander, with 88,000 lost places, will lose 10% of its passenger volume compared to last year. Jerez will stay at 7%, with 52,400 places offered less. Other airports, however, manage to hold the stick that supposes the exit of the Irish company. Vigo, where Ryanair announced a reduction of 61% of its operations, will grow and offer this summer 64,700 seats more than in 2024, 8.8% higher than last year. Asturias will not run so much luck but cushion the impact with a reduction in the volume of travelers that is barely reflected in a 1.8% decrease (27,000 places less). In general terms, AENA will lose 643,000 places offered with the departure of Ryanair from some of its airports and the descent of its operations. An output that occurs after the company indicated AENA’s rates as abusive and incentives to operate in small insufficient airports. For their part, in Aena they have seen this movement as blackmail, according to Five days. Although in recent days the Irish company has generated even more noise with an aggressive advertising campaign in which Call “clown” to Pablo Bustinduy, Minister of Consumptionusing the fine receivable in the cabin As a claim, it was the operating rates in AENA and the lack of incentives in small airports that motivated the exit of these places. The rates charged by Aena are designed to guarantee the proper functioning of an airport, is the price to be paid for a company to provide the security or cleaning service, among others. On average, Companies pay 10.35 euros per passenger in Spain But in smaller airports they barely reach two or three euros because some incentives are applied to operate in these lines. For example, 100% of the rate of reduced mobility travelers or 100% of the safety rate is reimbursed, to make these spaces more attractive from the big cities. Decisions that are not enough for Ryanair who ask “A substantial reduction” Of the same or that, even, “if there is a regional airport with 500,000 passengers, which is given a discount to all the 50% airlines on the existing traffic and free for the next 50,000 passengers”, in the words of Eddie Wilson , CEO of Ryanair, during an interview with Five days. What Wilson does not do in that interview is one of the economic incentives from low -cost airlines that provide services at these airports and receive subsidies from institutions in the form of advertising to maintain their flights. They are contracts that, with its departure, the airline is breaking and that allowed, for example, that In Vigo a fluid line was maintained with London airport. Photo | Marty Sakin In Xataka | Ryanair’s breakdown is a warning for world tourism: plane tickets are very expensive

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