Ryanair’s days as the "Budget King" are over
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Europe is home to some of the oldest, most storied airlines on earth. The likes of British Airways, KLM, and Air France have been around for more than half a century, and maintain a steady dominance in the region. But even so, there’s no European carrier that’s cemented itself more in the cultural Zeitgeist than Ryanair. The Irish carrier didn’t pioneer low cost travel, but they’ve certainly mastered it - offering rock-bottom ticket prices that are truly hard to ignore - and even harder to resist.
For decades, the carrier has remained untouched as the king of European budget travel. But that’s about to change - with an overlooked competitor coming for its crown. And the scary thing for Ryanair, is that this competitor has a very real shot of knocking it off its throne. Let me explain…
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Learn to use the right flags first 😂
6:20 my man you're either trolling like a king or bugging like mad
7:00 Also, it's Palermo, not Palmero, and it's the largest city in Sicily not Sardinia. Like come on, google exists
@@alunesh12345 Didn’t ask
Careful about European geography 😀 I didn't even notice the Mexican flag for Italy, but (1) Hungary definitely isn't Baltic & (2) it's pronounced Loo-ton
BTW for me: Norwegian > EasyJet > Ryanair > Wizz
yes I was quite taken aback my these too lol
I think he meant to say "Balkan", which culturally or ethnically Hungary still isn't, but geographically it just about is.
And for me it's easyJet > Wizz >>> Ryanair, haven't flown on Norwegian yet
Or Placing Madrid in Portugal and Barcelona in Valencia lol
He's a thick prick Yank, to be expected when you have to function on 1 braincell like most of them........
06:21 It's the Mexican flag, not the Italian one...
Regarding the low cost carriers, I've flown on Ryanair and Easyjet, and I usually find Easyjet more comfortable
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That’s a Hungarian flag my friend as the guy said in the beginning wizz is coming from Budapest so the Head office is there and it’s Hungarian airlines 💪🏻💪🏻🙏
@@nathanmolnar8064 Hungary?😂
@@nathanmolnar8064 no, Hungarian flag has horizontal stripes!
@@nathanmolnar8064 I'm Mexican, believe me, that's my countries' flag XD According to the legend, when Aztecs found an eagle eating a snake on the top of a cactus, that's how the knew where they had to settle... that'ts what is in the middle of the flag.
6:21 Dude thats the Flag of Mexico, not Italy...
🤣
This man also pronounced Luton wrong
@@armoredgaming2352 well he is American after all 🤷
Seen a map at 7:05? What the hell is Palmero? Palermo is not on that island. Also Wizz doesnt have a base in Pisa
Lmao
Based on industry statistics, Ryanair flew 14.2m passengers in April 2022 with a 91% loading factor, vs Wizz carrying 3.6m passengers with a 84% loading. Comparing 2019 through 2021, Wizz % of Ryanair passengers rose from 26% to 29%, however year to date it has dropped back to 25%. In addition as of the end of December 2021, Ryanair had liquidity of 3.7 Billion Euros Vs Wizzair of 1.4Billion Euros. So indeed prorata to business size, Wizzair has 38% of numberical liquidity of Ryanair, vs 29% of passenger numbers, but this would not seem that much out of kilter. Finally in their financial year to end of March 2022, Ryanair lost 355million Euros vs Wizz at 645million Euros. Ryanair is forecasting a profit rebound for 2023, but Wizzair is still predicting losses. Viewing all of the data over the past 10 years, no doubt Wizzair have grown from a small niche player to the 2nd largest low fares airline in Europe, however again based on more recent data both pre covid, covid and now post covid, the data is not supporting your arguement about Wizzair taking over as Budget airline king from Ryanair anytime in the foreseeable future. Stockprice forecasts for both companies would also not support your case.
@Donal Crotty
I Agree with you. I did a detailed comparison of the financials of both these airlines and Ryanair outperformed Wizz Air in most, if not all of the financial indicators. Wizz Air may have the youngest fleet there is, with strong liquidity and least carbon footprints of all the EU LCCs but still it has a long way to go to take the King head on. West Europe is still Ryanair's bastion of operations and Wizz Air is no where near ousting Ryanair as the biggest LCC of EU
Thanks Donal 👍🏻
If EasyJet start nibbling Ryanair’s lunch they retaliate hard and usually blow them clean out of the water, Michael O’Leary is probably the toughest guy in the business , he knows his stuff and was apprenticed by Tony Ryan a billionaire when people didn’t know what a billion was..He was the king of aircraft leasing for over 30 years but a mistimed public offering in Hong Kong in the early nineties left his group GPA vulnerable and was taken over by GE..However he was the main backer of Ryanair and rebuilt his wealth quickly, no Wizz kid 🥴 is gonna take him out because he is at least 2 years ahead of everyone else..
He posts very simplistic videos. Makes it look like it’s true... I won’t follow him no
@@renanruiz8484 yeah load of bollix really. Leeeezurreeee nope it Leisure
Of course its not like travelling with Lufthansa or KLM. But I like it that way, because I don't want to pay to enjoy the 2 hour flight, but to enjoy the 1 week vacation in Italy and only paying 20 dollars for the flight.
It's exactly like flying Lufthansa. They offer the exact same service nowadays
Cant say I have ever enjoyed a Ryanair flight.
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Flew Air France (KLM) this week. Honestly had more space in both Ryan Air and Easy Jet due to their narrower seats. Felt very cramped in the Air France Plane. Food on the plane was also terrible. Give me the toasted ham and cheese panini on Ryan Air any day.
@@alunesh12345, come on, it's not a sin to criticize Lufthansa!
Luton is pronounced Loo-tn Like Toilet Loo, not Lut-on, love your channel anyway, just remember most towns/places here in England are not pronounced in American English at all, but mostly come from old English names some even from way back in Saxon times.
& when mentioning "Itsly" shows a full frame flag of Mexico ;)
Kilduf calls it Lootin'
I was going to mention the same thing lol
Actually so glad you pointed this out!
FFS, one would think a little bit of research was done....😅
I enjoyed the video. However, I work for one of Wizzair's close competitors and want to correct a few things. Wizzair has high liquidity because the owner of Wizz has a very good relationship with the Hungarian government which essentially bankroll the airline. You mention Ryanair may have its thrown taken away. But last time I checked Ryanair increased its programme this year by 15% and operated over 3000 flights in one day last week alone, which is a record for the airline group. Compared to Wizzair's 800 flights and easyJets 1600 flights. I think Wizzair will need to further increase it's fleet to have any chance of topping Ryanair. I do think however Wizzair will push easyJet very close... Final thing to note is Ryanair hedges fuel and Wizz doesn't. So lets see what happens in the next 18 months....
Very insightful, thanks for sharing this!
Wizz Air’s CEO also has good relations with countries on Balkans. They get money for operating some flights from Bosnia, Macedonia and Romania. Also they have a base in Abu Dhabi almost at governmental costs, as well as fully sponsored expansion plans to Saudi Arabia. Josef Varadi (CEO) does really good thing of getting a lot of connections in business and politics. Wizz Air operates less flight also because they don’t make ultra short-haul flights like London - Paris, Barcelona - Majorca, Dublin - Manchester. EasyJet as well. Wizz Air has barely any of these short flight and operate on longer routes. Also they have noticeable amount of 5h+ routes, while Ryanair barely has any. So if comparing PAX*KM, difference will be less significant. Also Wizz Air is the European fastest growing airline, having over 400 orders which are delivered rapidly, while Ryanair only around 150 and after getting about 60 MAX 200 which were built but grounded due to MCAS issues now deliveries to Ryanair are slower. Wizz Air will still not catch up Ryanair, except if there is some crisis, badly affecting Ryanair but not Wizz Air but they will get big enough to take away some destinations from Ryanair.
I love the fact that these budget airlines exist, and I hope one of them opens a subsidiary in the us (except that the 9/11 security fee will be like 25-50% of the ticket price lol). I've flown Ryanair and it wasn't as bad as people make it to be. You're not paying to watch movies or get free snacks, you're paying to get from point a to point b.
The tax structure in the US prevents airlines from offering tickets as cheap as the ultra low cost carriers in Europe.
Airports in Europe are privately owned for profit. In the US airports are operated by local government and they are cash cows. The taxes you see on your ticket are just for what you are charged. The airports also charge the airlines and the airline passes that on to you.
Hotel taxes, entertainment taxes and airport fees are ways to raise money without upsetting voters because most of it is paid by visitors.
@@hewhohasnoidentity4377 There are still things in Ryanair's model that are not being applied to low cost airlines in the US.
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@@hewhohasnoidentity4377 Sorry, you're mistaken. Ryanair doesn't fly to the privatised airports because they are too expensive with regards to landing fees. They will in fact pit two small airports (usually owned by local governments) against each other to see who can provide the lowest airport landing fees, as low as free, thus receiving a lot of indirect subsidies from small, local governments.
It used to be alot worse before 2008 era, I've flown it all my life every year
Min 6:21 I don’t want to be a know it all but I’m pretty sure that’s the Mexican flag.
Yah. It's the mexican flag
It's that country they speak Mexican
Italy! **enter the Mexican flag**
Thanks for that laugh today, I needed it!
I'm still thanking Michael O'Leary for setting up Ryanair. Flying frequently. Of course I wouldn't say no to more legspace or airport lounge access, but I don't mind, I'm getting cheaply from A to B and that's what I'm looking for. I used to be a heavy user of HLX, Easyjet and Germanwings, but they don't serve the routes I require - that is, if they even still exist.
Easy Jet still exists and Germanwings became Eurowings
easyJet are still around but more Gatwick and Luton based. Ryanair are more Stansted.
@@goldsilvertravel Yeah but Leary was first. Plain and simple. You have no idea what it would have cost to fly Lufthansa Frankfurt to Dublin one way - simply unaffordable before Ryanair kicked in.
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Richard Hammond you have painted, on your mini, the flag of MEXICO
Ryanair will probably always be my main airline as I live in Ireland and every second plane that comes into Dublin airport is a Ryanair jet.
My local airport is Stansted and ...ya sbout 80% of the flights are FYR.
Aer Lingus is much better and just as cheap (if not cheaper).
@@eoinoconnell185 ah no, ryanair is much cheaper, as long as you are not carrying loads of luggage it will most of the time be cheaper.
@@eoinoconnell185 A.L, possibly the worst airline in Europe, and not even Irish anymore.
@@bustertypsy Aer Lingus is one of the safest airlines in the world, only two crashs in it's history since 1936. Ryanair has never had a crash.
As a Romanian I fly a lot with both of them. No difference between them honestly. Price difference is small and depends on the day and destination to see what is cheaper.
Wizz just have crazy extra fees like airport or auto check-in, fee for a small bag in the hold or trolley bag on the plane, their food and drink is so over-priced too.
@@goldsilvertravel same is with Ryanair. And personally I prefer to pay for auto check in from wizz compared with Ryanair where if you want to make sure you have a seat, you need to pay for it. If I am alone, I don't really care where I sit and wizz helps me get one for sure
I flew Wizz Air last month (Eindhoven - Tirana and back) and I wasn't too satisfied. I had a huge delay on the first leg of 2,5 hours because the plane was overbooked. Two people had to get off the plane, which is what happened. We were longer on the ground than in the air. On the way back again a delay of 2 hours. The crew was very unfriendly and unwelcoming and we weren't properly informed during all the waiting. It's the low cost life folks! :)
Interesting to hear Wizz overbooks flights, and that they didnt manage the problem by not issuing boarding passes and removing people from the plane instead. I think this will never happen on Ryanair flights
@@mrnotgoood It happens on every single airline in the world, airlines just assume not everybody will turn up and they always overbook the flights. However how the removed passengers are being compensated is a whole different story on every one of them..
easyJet, the first low cost carrier, is by far the best. It has a good corporate attitude, which Ryanair does not.
Easyjet will be gone in 12 months .its a mess
it's by far the best... but only if you're lucky enough to book one of the few flights they don't actually cancel 🤣
I cannot agree with this. I have a ton of experience flying Ryanair and easyJet and Ryanair outperformed EJ close to 100% of the time in almost all categories, including such things as better boarding experience, more legroom, a better app and better customer support. EJ is bound to fail and will soon be replaced by Wizz and Ryanair.
Ryan air was started b4 easy jet
As someone from Luton (localy pronounced Loo'un ;) ), I tend to fly easyJet as they are based in and first started out from LTN - Wizz taking those Monarch slots and setting up a subsidiary here means it's not just Ryanair they're fighting.
Personal preference, mainly due to destinations available from LTN would be easyJet > Wizz > Vueling > Ryanair
Lol, British pronunciations always crack me up. Or should I say Bri-ish :D
@@v5k456jh3 like a native!
even easyjet charge for a trolley bag now though. The only UK airline that doesn't is BA, far as I know.
I really like jet2. The seats are great and I love the liveries.
same
Jet2 .. is like a big secret... never gets mentioned but consistently beats everyone else.
my only niggle is they use starbucks for thier onboard coffe , it is terrible costa is way better
Wizzair isn't all success though. In 2020 they tried to enter the norwegian domestic market, counting on then-struggling Norwegian to go bankrupt, and being able to undercut competitor prices. This failed spectacularly though as they more or less got bullied out of the country by boycotts from companies, municipalities, and even the prime minister, in protest against Wizzair's horrible labour and union policies. Also, their inexperienced pilots couldn't handle northern norwegian winter conditions, leading to many flights in a short period of time getting cancelled or being forced to turn back to Oslo, when competitors landed as normal.
In summary, because of Norwegian not folding as expected, extremely bad PR even before they got started, and loss of confidence due to cancellations, Wizz had to pull out of the market only 8 months after they started.
I used to fly Wizz Air every few weeks in 2003, visiting my girlfriend (now wife) in Hungary from Luton. I flew so often, I was once recognised by cabin crew (I think they only had a handful of planes at the time). It was regularly around £50 return including a full size suitcase. Those were the days.
I flew with Ryanair about 20 years ago. I was blown away by the €10 round trip ticket, but had to really go out of the way to get to the airports they flew out of. I wanted to go from Milan to Hamburg for Christmas but the flight went from Bergamo to Lübeck - which meant hours of bus and train transport on each end. Still, I was able to do the whole trip for less than $100 during a busy holiday season which was fine by me. At the time Ryanair was pretty new and had pretty limited options as far as destinations go.
Ryanair was over 15 years old 20 years ago
@@cbr7170 That’s pretty crazy. At the time it wasn’t as big at least as there were several competitors. My relatives had barely heard of it and were pretty shocked at prices I got.
Good challenge but optimistic. Ryanair often made sense because of their direct routes rather than prices. E.g. between high density German and Italian destinations. Service-wise Ryanair improved from the utter nuisance it was - less horrible branding and inflight ads, less shouting, less checkin traps....but don't expect a Eurowings experience yet
I flew to latvia with Wizz a few years back and what was most impressive was no seat allocation and loading from the middle to each end which was a much faster procedure and also a smooth flight Ryanair was flying similar times at similar prices so some family members went on that one for time reasons and that was fine Hardly anyone had heard of Wizz but their Livery was similar to monarch
Living in eastern Europe i have used both Ryanair and Wizz and for those prices i think they are absolutely fine. Every once in a while you can find crazy deals like 66 euros for a Bucharest-Tenerife round trip with Wizz(that's a 6 hours flight). Or a 10 euro Bucharest-Milano roundtrip with Ryanair. Both companies are fine for the prices you pay, however you need to pay for checked in bags, handbags (anything bigger than a rucksack) , food, water and seats(if you want to sit next to your partner/friend etc). Leg room is smallish, the seats don't recline and flights never leave on time but they arrive on time (99% of the time).
My wife and I fly on Ryan all the time. We do not mind sitting apart. Both of us like to catch up on our reading and know we will together for the entire trip.
It's funny but Ryanair has above average legroom by modern standards, especially among low costers. Their legroom is 30 inches, this is more than Norwegian, easyJet and Wizz (slightly less than 30" in this case). It also matches the legroom of some long haul carriers such as British Airways, and Aeroflot (until it was killed by sanctions, it used to have lots of 29 and 30" planes).
Well, I was Ramp Agent at Hamburg Airport and the security cabin check of Ryanair consists of a quick look through the cabin, without even moving, and a "thumbs up" straight afterwards.
On turnaround there are 3 cabin crews that visually check portion of the cabin, collect rubbish (or most of it) and give thumbs up to each other before give it to ground staff. All for the sake to do between 8 and 12 sectors per day with the same aircraft.
That's Ryanair's way.
Wizzair is kinda weird though
All the flights from Italy to Estonia leave within 10 minutes of eachother from Milan, Rome and Naples, making it almost impossible to have a flight arriving in Estonia at another time, coming from Portugal, because the connections are usually through Italy.
I flew Norwegian from Oakland Metropolitan (KOAK) to Stockholm Arlanda (ESSA) in 2014 back before they had to scale back. It was a great experience, free wifi, lots of legroom, I could go on. It was my first flight on a 787-8 (this was before the 787-9 was released)
easyJet has actually become a quite nice airline. It's a pity they are closing most routes from Berlin (where I live)
I came back just the other day for a domestic trip in italy and I've flown Ryanair one way and wizz the other.
I can say that wizz felt even more aggressively low cost: the boarding process started while the passengers from the flight before were still getting off the plane, the seats where smaller and more lightweight, and they had an extremely fast takeoff and landing to maximise time at cruise speed and altitude. And it was an a320neo.
They are indeed trying hard to compete
Extremely fast take off and landing? What do you mean?
I found Norwegian excellent and was sorry to see them having to scale back as they were the only low budget airline that flew direct from Ireland to Finland where my partner is from.
Wow! No LCCs apart from them flying directly to Finland (from Ireland)! That 8s bonkers
@@sailaab finnair do direct flights since Norwegian pulled the service but they are no way as cheap as Norwegian were unfortunately.
Norwegian has almost disappeared in my country (Spain)
@@alfrredd same as here in Ireland which is a great pity....
Ryanair flies 3 times a week from Dublin to Lapland Rovaniemi, so that’s not entirely correct.
Hey Coby. That is a great video! I'm from Austria, just a couple of hours away from Vienna. For all of my US trips for example (just returned from LAX couple days ago) Austrian Airlines is the airline that I choose. Low cost airlines are an option for me especially for short flights. Ryanair and Wizz are very present in Austria but Wizz shortly announced to keep their flightplan out of Vienna smaller than other low cost airlines and focus on high profit destinations. Both Ryanair and WizzAir are not bad at all but I prefer Ryanair to be honest - just because the comfort on board is a little bit better.
I have flown Ryanair, Wizzair and Easyjet. Wizzair is definitely a favorite due to newer and more comfortable planes. Flying Ryanair often feels like riding a village bus that smells like kerosene.
Mmmm….kerosene
Really? I've only flown with Wizz once and it was as uncomfortable as it could be.
Hardly true. Ryanair’s 737 fleet are all brand new from Boeing and then sold to other airlines relatively young. Most have the new generation SKY interiors which are comfortable and look great. All airplanes sometimes have a kerosene smell, especially at engine start when unburnt fuel momentarily gets in the air conditioning . That’s what airport gate ramps smell like anyway.
Average age of Ryanair is 5years
proven the youngest fleet in Europe.
Currently I'm flying 3 brand new 737-8200 1-3 months old.
Will be interesting what Wizz Air do with the order of A321XLR's, and where they are flown.
The boss claims they have no interest flying them Trans-Atlantic between the US and Europe.
Maybe connect the Middle-East with Europe and some northern African countries with Europe
You should watch my video on why Ryanair won't fly to America because Michael Oleary said a similar thing about its Maxs
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@@alunesh12345 Ohhh for God sake shit up and go and spread the work else where.
Europpen from the caribbean here, I only flown multiple time on Vueling, Trasavia and EasyJet, it was fun. Ryannair has a tendancie to operate in “secondary “ airport often far from the city they are targeting and to me it’s time consuming and painfull as a traveller
And misleading the Paris airport they bring you to isn’t even in the Paris region its in the Picardy region
@@oscarosullivan4513 exactly my point YES Bauvais isn’t even in the Ile-de-France. It’s way better to go with Vueling, Transavvia or EasyJet via Orly or CDG
@@cyrildu972 How they get away with it
Back when Ukraine was in its calmer days and I would want to fly somewhere, I remember that Wizzair was basically east europe's ryanair. But i was frustrated that despite all agreements made that shouldve ensured travel with these carriers would be cheap, it would often overprice UIA. Also in our heads we basically had this forumation: wizzair for east europeans, ryanair for west europeans, and easyjet for brits wanting to go to magaluf.
I personally liked flying with wizzair and my recent flight from charleroi to warsaw was safe and pleasant. Lovely Ukrainian crew on board. The Ryanair flight I had from Kyiv to London was also nice and straight to the point. As long as we got somewhere safe I was okay and the pilots safely landed in London despite the rough weather.
I've been on about 36 Ryanair flights, for work, in the last 18 months and honestly it's not as bad as people make out. At the end of the day, you're paying peanuts, considering how much goes into air travel. I've had one cancellation, which was down to an Italian ATC strike, and only a number of delays which have started to become common this year due to understaffing.
Of course I'd like to pay more and go with someone like BA but they're having just as many problems when it comes to getting the thing off the ground.
So I started using WIZZ when they flew from my local airport (Brno-CZ) to London Luton. Unfortunatley they withdrew this service but I was hooked. I still use them from either Bratislava - LTN or Vienna - LGW which is around 2 hours away. My last winter holiday to Egypt's Red Sea from Vienna cost $25 return! I've noticed that when they open a new route they sell seats at ultra low prices $2.99 to Israel (Eilat) and Just before Xmas I flew ($2.99) from The Canaries* (What Florida at the same latitude is for US) - is the same for Europeans) Like their airplanes - staff - destinations
I’m an Italian (subscribed) follower of your channel, and I am very interested to seeing this video, so a new chapter of the budget airlines war is going to happen here in Italy... interesting 😏 by the way I’m not very surprised because ex Alitalia (now ITA) is not really beloved by Italians (especially the younger ones) for many reasons, there’s no trust in that company, and this opened the door for many low cost competitors
I personally prefer easyJet, I think they made a brilliant choice taking all Terminal 2 of milan Malpensa airport and they established as the “less hated” low cost carrier of the country
I'm Italian too.
I agree how easyJet is the "favorite" from all the budget airlines and would be the most flown if only Ryanair and Wizz didn't have a big monopoly on the routes
I think ITA is okay, can't judge now because they are only less than a year old
If they don't go broke in 5 years then we are going to be fine
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Having a younger fleet does not always = better profit. This is a common misunderstanding and Coby has fallen for it.
Younger fleet normally = more aicraft repayments or lease payments. These payments eat into the profit margin.
Older aircraft may burn more fuel (to be honest the difference here is in the single digits of percentage) but they are bought and paid for by in large. Meaning no lease payments or repayments.
American Airlines and Delta kept their 30+ year old DC9s and MD80s in their fleet many years longer than expected because they were paid for and needed only maintenance spent on them. They found this was more cost effective than continually purchasing new aircraft that came will training, parts, lease/payment and other sundry expenses.
Then you have to consider just how much the airline is actually paying for their aircraft. M'OL has stated on several occasions he "r*ped" Boeing for his fleet. Meaning he is paying very likely less for his 737s than anyone else and will almost certainly be paying less per 737 Max than Wizz will be paying for their A320/A321NEOs.
The numbers are not known to me. But I would hedge a bet that Ryanair still has an operational cost advantage over Wizz and will still be able to undercut them on any competing route.
In summary, your title is misleading and at this time factually incorrect.
I flew a lot with all airlines in the video Ryanair, Easyjet, Wizzair, Norwegian , GermanWings, Vueling. I personally have greatest confidence ( more than 100 flights) in Ryanair, Easyjet and lowest in Wizzair ( costed me a handful of ruined holidays, more than 10 cancelled flights and no basic respect for the clients no chance in paying fees)
The advantage Wizzair have is the fact that they have sometimes lower prices and they are conveniently situated in a region full of travel eager population and maybe their more aggressive approach in Middle East and Eastern Europe. But their total lack of predictibility may obliterate these advantages.
And one more thing , the video is full of wishful thinking for Wizzair , almost a promo!
At the minute wizz air is cancelling flights due to “low staff numbers due to Covid” this was earlier this week and easyJet also were cancelling
Just as an FYI ryanair is currently expanding exponentially. Its main hub, Dublin, has so many flights and passengers travelling through that the airport simply cant handle it. the demand to travel in ireland is higher then it was in 2019 with new flights being added to new destinations and airlines constantly. It will not struggle to keep up. Trust. And also extra competition is better for the consumer so congrats to everyone :)
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European here. I've flown Ryanair lots of times. Just a week ago I returned from a trip to England with them. My flights cost £200 (Poznan in Poland to Bristol), with reserved seats, priority boarding and 10kg carry on plus another small bag. That's not as cheap as it was pre-Covid, but what is? I've always considered RA to be a bus. No frills, not the cleanest, but with amazingly quick turnarounds and usually early to arrive. I had one nightmarish experience with Whizzair, but no problems whatsoever with RA. Whizz may have benefitted from its liquidity during Covid, but RA is back at full thrust, and my money would be on them to prevail.
European here, we fly regularly with Wizzair and we never had any major issues other than slight delays in the flights. We use Wizz anytime over Ryanair, mainly due to the comfort of flying with A320 over 737. Wizz's expansion to UAE plays also a big role and change in the tourism in as you can fly from e.g. Budapest to Dubai for 70-80 euros. However, easyjet is the most comfortable budget airline to fly with.
Just an FYI. It’s pronounced L-oo-ton not lu-ton
Haha the way you pronounce "Luton" is funny. It's pronounced "Lewton".
Another great, informative video. :D
I frequently fly with Wizz Air. They are cheep and I am able to book tickets for return trip for only around 80-100$. It means a lot, because I really can't afford to fly around Europe if the prices are 300-400$ for return trip.
But low cost has it's limits. You can only fly with backpack, any additional luggage is premium. That is not problem for myself, since I can travel for 4-5 days with only a backpack, but I understand the people who can't. Even then, the price for luggage is not too bad (around 50$), but then it's not as cheep. Some other things are also different - you need to check-in online, because airport check-in are not free (which is fine with me, I check-in online anyway), you don't get anything for free during the flight (snacks, water), and (and this is the biggest flaw for me personally) the seats are fixed and can't be moved backwards.
But for 1,5 / 2 hour flight it's ok, it's cheep and that is what matters for myself.
I never flown with Ryan but I guess it's the same thing more-less.
Flown easyJet multiple times had no issues and they had great service and staff. We recently booked an easyJet holidays from Gatwick to Marrakech in Morocco on an A321 neo.
Will be interesting to see what the financial results are for 2022. Ryanair is heavily fuel hedged this year compared to 2023. Comparatively Wizz has lower staff costs.
One thing, Wizz did layoff staff, including pilots (Ryanair didn’t). Wizz re-hired pilots at much lower costs. At some point the consumer shall be more conscious about wanting to pay such low-fares.
Wizz rehired pilots at the same cost as before covid
There is also one more political aspect to it. Wizz as Hungarian airline has access to Russian imported fuel as Hungary continues buing Russian oil despite most of the countries refused to do so. Side effect is that Russia sell oil to Hungary at least 30% discounted so that means wizz might be able to have better fuel price at homebase than ryanair, combined with newer fleet might be significant.
@@andwegrzyn Less than 10% of Wizz aircrafts are based in Hungary. Also fuel is hedged and contracts have predetermined price sometimes. Not to mention it's not guarnteed that Hungary is able to produce Jet fuel from Russian oil by itself
My favorite is Norwegian, because Free Wi-Fi. Yes, it's kinda slow when the flight is jam packed, but it's better than none. It gets faster if there's few passengers using it too.
I cannot stress how easy it is for airlines to slap a 20-dollar fee on their Wifi. To have a LOW-COST airline just offer it largely for free is a treasure beyond price.
I accept that everyone has their own priorities. Mine is to get from point A to point B on time with the minimum of fuss and at the best price.
I can manage for 3 hours without internet. I usually bring my phone and tablet loaded with music, videos, and podcasts to keep me entertained.
Also, I live near Dublin, from which Ryanair flies to 100 plus European destinations, so Ryanair is by far my No. 1 choice, followed by Aer Lingus.
8:04 Yeah. It's interesting how - from Kraków - Wizz Air flies to the main airports of Rome and Milan (Fiumicino and Malpensa), yet their fares are cheaper than Ryanair's, which flies to Ciampino and Bergamo.
Not convinced that Wizz is going to overtake Ryanair any time soon. The biggest problem would be acquiring over 100 new aircraft to achieve fleet parity with Ryanair and that’s assuming Ryanair don’t take delivery of any frames during that period. Realistically Wizz is likely to remain behind Ryanair and EasyJet for the foreseeable future. Incidentally, my favourite low cost carrier is EasyJet although, like other airlines they have been having a torrid time recently with an industry wide labour shortage.
Wizz Air for me. Feels like a trendier version of Ryanair. Plus members get even lower prices!
Doesn't mean they will overtake ryanair. Also, in the last decade since I stopped working for them, they have acquired or set up 4 new companies. Ryanair UK, Ryanair Sun of Warsaw, re-branded to Buzz, Lauda Air and Air Malta. My guess is this Cory is not the sharpest branch on the tree and I'm also guessing Wizz, especially after the latest news in Doncaster from the CEO and his attitude to staff, he won't get new staff in the UK and WizzAir will not overtake RyanAir in my lifetime!
next time get to know well where is Barcelona because you have located it in Valencia💀
and then the mexican flag instead of the italian one
I only flew with WIZZ once, and it was a surprisingly pleasant experience
Due to the destination (Tenerife) travelled, and the departure/return dates, we could only fly Ryanair. It would have been OK for short haul, but too uncomfortable for medium haul. All the add-on charges put the price up.
We are just hoping that the current airport chaos improves so we can once again travel in a proper airline (Virgin Atlantic-our favourite) to the USA
One thing to consider here (as always) is safety. With the Wizz CEO's comments of late I think I know which airline I'd rather fly with...
What has he said?
Yeah but I trust the A320 wizzair aircraft much more than the 737MAX that Ryanair is taking delivery of
@@ernestcarpentier then you obviously are not very well educated in aircraft or aircraft history. Typical human, judge something based off what they read in a newspaper one time!!!
Easy jet treats it’s pilots best, and also customers so i love them
Easy jet have created their own problem with respect to cancellations.
During the covid restrictions of the last 2 years, all airlines suffered…EasyJet to save money offered alternative contracts to flight deck crews in respect of a reduction of hours they fly. So now the demand of flights have or nearly have returned to pre- covid times. But the flight deck have not returned to 100% of flying allowance leaving the airline with a shortage of pilots. Some pilots are happy with their reduction of hours.
Hence why flights have been cancelled
@@canaryseasider ok, after reading some stuff maybe the passengers part wasn’t as true, however, i do know pilots and flight attendants (everyone else maybe) are treated very well especially during the pandemic.
My favourite is probably easy jet. They are hated in a few ways but I just love their fleet which is much like wiz and their livery is pretty cool
When I have a choice I would choose Wizz over Ryanair because there is much more room space in Wizz planes and I need a loot of leg space to sit. On top of that Ryanairs's dark blue/yellow color style of interior is ugly and depressing.
Both airlines are doing scammy practices when you try to buy your tickets. Price being calculated by amount of attention to particular route meaning your morning check for prices would interfere with price you get so if your session timeout (which happens a lot because their websites are sluggishly slow) you will get higher price when you check it again 5 minutes later.
At some point they were battling over each other and ran some bots which overblown some wizz connection prices to few times the price of regular lines business class tickets.
7:01 You put Palermo on the wrong Island
And you used the Mexican flag in the place of Italy
What is with Americans 😂
not forgetting putting London in the south Central UK, not more to the east like it actually is
I'm just more interested in the fact you used the Mexican flag when talking about Italy 🤣🤣
Wizz has a good service for a 2-3h flight. You pay a little and get a normal seat and friendly crew. That's all I need for short flight.
Plus Wizz has younger fleet, so you have a chance to get a new nice-lookin cabin
And unlike the seats on Ryanair planes, the seat in front of you has a pocket to stow things in. I know it's not a super big deal, but it's a nice touch :)
Hi Coby, great video, I didn't know this aspect of strong liquidity!
From a customer perspective I can tell you that flying with Wizz is a much more comfortable experience. First being the Airbus a bigger plane it suffers less turbolences, so the "fasten belt" sign appears at least 60% less than in a Ryanair flight. Secondly the crew is much more silled and less stressed than their Ryanair colleagues. Furthermore Wizz is not a bazar with announcements every two minutes about stratch cards, perfumes and so on like Ryan and this makes a HUGE difference! on the quality of flight!!!
...and yes you're right prices are mostly lower, and Wizz have also a fidelity card which reduces the price by 10€ and costs 30€ for a year....so with the first trip is almost paid.
P.s A couple of constructive crriticism... You showed the Mexican flag instead of the Italian (6'22''), secondly Alitalia doesnìt exist anymore (now it's ITA Airways)
Coby....keep getting your dad the coffee.....or send the other stuff....ANONYMOUSLY. Strange message giving your dad....stuff for his....nether regions. :-) Your videos are well structured and informative. Thank you.
6:21 Mexican flag
Yup, Also at 7:04 Palermo is missplaced on the map, but whatever great video with tones of informations
But also if Wizz had the more effective Fleet, they have a problem with fuel:
Ryanair set long term contracts to save them
Fuel for preset prices.
WizzAir buys most of their Fuel right on the spot wich made them more subsceptible for fuel price change as we see now as a result of the war.
So it’s not easy for Wizz to keep competitive with Ryanair at the moment, also if they’re really well backed up in cash by Indigo Partners.
Ryan air always does great for me tbh I fly from stansted never had issues when I visit friends in Sweden where as I’ve had family fly wizz and have terrible service one got stuck in Croatia because of wizz! But I think the best airlines I’ve flown is virgin Atlantic to Las Vegas and finnair had one of the coolest planes as it showed the northern lights as a display on the ceiling
The other opportunity wizz has is Ryanairs business model has no brand loyalty built in - they treat passengers like crap and are very slow to refund or compensate for delays if at all even where legally required to do so and whenever challenged their obnoxious little leprechaun CEO pops up and says “it’s cheap what do you expect?” - I can actually imagine an announcement on Ryanair along the lines “in the event of an emergency evacuation swipe your credit card to release the seatbelt!” If a competitor like wizz shows up with good timekeeping and similar (if not better routes and prices then nobody who normally flies Ryanair is going to think twice about jumping ship and oh yeah, wizz aren’t flying a fleet of planes tainted by a succession of crashes caused by manufacturing defect which is still pretty fresh in the public consciousness.
Brand loyalty? It is a budget airline!! If you want a "free" drink then pay more to fly with one of the older "national" carriers. Incidentally, Ryanair has never had a fatal accident, which can't be said of the other airlines...
I flew both Ryanair and EasyJet at the past. I felt very uncomfortable with Raynair cabin crew in terms of safety professionalism throughout the flight (and I had my share of short and long-haul flying over the years to judge). EasyJet on the other hand was always exceptionally good even at times of “crisis” such as bad weather and strikes etc. That said post pandemic I think we are at a new era of air travelling for both budget Carries and some legacy ones too!
Wizz pilots and other employees are saying that Wizz air is dangerous on account of pushing them too hard with extra shifts. They have also had strikes re low pay and harsh conditions. It will not take over Ryanair unless it upgrades their internal standards. Ultra cheap prices wont last.
I tried to book on Wizzair, I gave up because I couldn't get away with paying only the flight, every time I got to the "pay" section I realised that were always added, one or two extras that I did not asked for.
I mostly fly with easyJet, they have an extended network out of EAP and in my opinion are a real budget carrier, you get what you pay for. Ryanair is rather a cheat airline, staff seems not very motivated and they often use secondary airports, making the overall journey often longer than with easyJet. I only once flew with Weez and was pleasantly surprised about their work attitude. I really am looking forward for Weez dethroning Ryanair😇
enjoy looking forward to this, however long it may take lol
Hey mate you Put the Mexican flag over Italy just letting you know
I have flown wizz, easyjet and ryanair many times each, and i have consistently found wizz to have the best balance between comfort, price and punctuality
Wizz Air has been growing fast in the last year. I usually choose Ryanair for short flights, but recently flew with Wizz Air for the first time, and I would say Wizz Air products and services are cheaper. Wizz Air had better legroom and the cabin crew was super friendly. My flight with them to Abu Dhabi from Athens was around 30-40 EUR each way. I would say Wizz Air flight tickets might be more expensive, but the planes and service are better.
I’ve flown budget airlines for years, Wizz was by far the worst. Delays, rude flight attendants, filthy aircraft. My favourites are EasyJet who I’ve never had any problems with, but who tend to be priced slightly higher than Ryainair and Wizz.
Coby calls EasyJet a competitor of wizz and Ryanair when in fact it isn’t. Prices are higher, planes are cleaner, staff friendlier, and the whole experience slightly better
im from Budapest and personally, i would always choose the cheapest option possible, i am looking forward to this race!
I remember before COVID Wizz air established a base in Malmo next to Copenhagen. When Ryanair established a base in Copenhagen Wizz moved away from a lot of the routes ryanair flew from the more centrally located airport. This goes to show that Wizz was scared of Ryanair before the pandemic and exploited the situation to it’s advantage.
I flew with Norwegian airlines, I know you said you did too but it depends what model. I flew on the 787 Dreamliner. 10/10 airline. Service was great with nice screens. Went on Norwegian from JFK to/from AMS
EasyJet is by far the best of all of them. The convenience of them flying out of the main airport in many cities and more comfortable cabins makes it my favourite.
You’re also pronouncing Luton wrong
Flew wizz from Brussels to Bucharest and back twice so far. They are pretty good for the price you pay, and on board snacks are not extremely expensive. Would definitely recommend if you don't want to go to the dentist after landing (looking at you Ryanair)
I can confirm that Ryanair has SHITTY landings. I flew from Stockholm to London and back and on the way there the landing was okay but on the way back it felt like the airplane was going in half
Btw I like ur profile pic
They are famous for it! Now 737 will feel harder than airbus anyway, but.....
Literally, if you are willing to get from point A to point B and you major concern is the price, then it doesn't matter if it's Ryanair, WizzAir, EasyJet. All of them have the same restrictions in hand-baggage and the same "service". The only thing that changes is the colors and the aircraft manufacturer. Btw if the flight is delayed on the ground (like max. 30mins) then somehow the flights gets on-time on the destination. The pilots seem to care for the on-time reputation and try to fly are fast as possible!
Coby:" .....is Italy"
coby: Proceeds to show a Mexico flag.
6:22 THATS MEXICO
I think what is importent to note ist, that Wizz currently does not allow general tarif paiment and most importantly they do not allow unions.
But at the beginning it was the same for Ryanair, later they had to allow unions but they adopted to it. If wizz really wants to expand in Europe and the EU they need bases in western Europe like Germany Spain, netherlands etc. So they will also face these cost at some point by which Ryanair will have mastered avoiding other cost.
The most important thing holding back Ryanair at the Moment ist their low order for 737max, they could easily take a couple of hundred more in the coming years.
Then their ist the A321neo which truly is a very importan assed of Wizz to drive costs down, but if Ryanair can agree witch Boeing on good -10 deals they will also hate the 200+ seat plane.
I currently belive that while Wizz will grow rapidly Ryanir will still grow and if they get more planes to put pressure an Wizz in markets like poland they will still dominate.
Side note: at my small lokal Airport in Germany Wizz opened a base 2020, they closed it after just one year because it was to expensive. More importantly they planed to launch direct competition to Ryanair on some routes, they never started because the costbase at wich Ryanair operated was just superior.
(also at vienna they just bailed to Ryanair wich decided to force them by launching dozend routes at super low prices, yes wizz ist still there but they stoped expanding, while Ryanir is know setting its sight on Austrian to completly dominate vienna)
As much as I do not like some of the practices of Ryanir and their handling of staff and saleries, they are just the master of low cost, their profit yield far exeed that of any european airline and as consolidation in Europe continues they will only get stronger. Long term the EU market will be dominated by Ryanair, LHgroup, AF&KLMgroup, IAG, Wizz and maybe if they surwive Easy jet.
2:17 you accidentally confused Balkans with Baltics it happens sometimes
2:12 Balkan states right?
No baltic, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
Mexican flag while talking about Italy?
I flew every European major LCC and my preferable is Ryanair for legroom and mostly lowest prices. Wizz Air is oftentimes more expensive (every with Wizz Discount) and Easy Jet is barely ever cheap. Over LCCs in Europe are too local and have small market. For business model. Wizz Air is expanding rapidly, getting new A321neo almost every 2 weeks, I oftentimes fly on aircraft which were just delivered to Wizz Air (MXP - BUD), once there was even a plane with less than 20 takeoff-landing cycles!
In addition to what is said about Wizz Air advantages, because of more modern fleet they also pay lower taxes for ecological and noise emissions which will get higher and higher in Europe overtime. Wizz Air also gets governmental subsidies, most noticeably on Balkans and in the UAE, while Saudi government encourages them to expand their operational network there.
Favorite is WizzAir by far. From the customer side of things, Ryan is much stricter considering luggage control (e.g. is the cabin bag EXACTLY this long) . Wizz has a more relaxed approach.
As a Hungarian I've flown Wizz multiple times. I'd choose it all day over Ryanair. The planes are better, the crew looks more professional, the cabin is cleaner, they don't offer much extra over ryanair, but it feels better to fly them
Probably because they have fewer flights per day🤭🤭🤭 I avoid Wizz cos of the things in the east and the nazist friend that Hungary is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What most of the commentators below do not realise is that before Ryanair appeared in the mid-80s, it cost £600 to fly from London to Dublin (return) with either BA or Aer Lingus, and that was a lot of money in those days! The "national flag" carriers like BA, Lufthansa, KLM, SAS and Air France were horrendously expensive, really only for business class. Holiday-makers used charter flights. Thanks to Ryanair and the other budget carries who followed, people can move around Europe like never before.
O wizzair is def my fav cus 1st of all its the first plane i flew and it was exciting and i have to say that wizzairs colour pallet is way more gentle then ryanair. I mean its like that yellow is just attacking you on the oppodite the purple shaded of wizzair are just tucking you into a good flight especialy with their new neo version with those beutiful seats i actually have a plane booked from the netherlands(well germany cus thats the closest airport) to poland and i am excited and i have recently flown with ryanair aswell cus i was going on a short holiday ro england and now i will get to mske the comparison even better but as i said the colour pallet is already a huge deal for me. (I hope its gonna be a neo).
I think there is a few issues here Coby that you missed. First of all while MO'L is still in power ryanair are just as much hoarders as wizz, in fact they have had cash reserves for years and even when oil sank and they had already bought their fuel everyone laughed and Mo'L basically said everyone else is still losing. Secondly MO'L is a brute which makes him a great leader. He will do everything and anything to undercut the competition. He has no fear and loves the challenge. He has done this several times before where he'll leave an airport if he doesnt get his way. move to the one down the road get cheaper prices and then under cuts the comp. Wizz will put a fight no doubt and could win some routes. But With Michael at the helm he would rather lose money on those routes just to starve the competition . He did it to Aer lingus and Easy jet in ireland. and when they were gone the price rose and the cycle started again and third, the Grants that they got well its been paid off already also he will play the game with boeing to get way better deals than the comp. I think unless he trains his successor to be a brute thats when wizz will get the upper hand .
*Relatedly, vis-à-vis ticket-price comparisons between Ryanair and Wizz Air, the following is worth keeping in mind: even though the 'entry-level' ticket-price with 'Wizz' may be attractive, once One moves beyond the realm of 'small-bag under the seat in-front' territory, the 'Wizz' cabin and checked -bag prices are significantly highly than the equivalent bag-prices, with Ryanair - this is significant.
out of the 3 biggest low-cost european airlines, i've been on easyjet - (all before lockdown) and wizzair - (all after lockdown) but not ryanair
using the airports: Milan Malpensa, London Luton, London Gatwick & Vienna
Have flown several times with Ryanair, easyjet once , I slightly prefer easyjet.
Having said that Ryanair always delivers 🙌 never had delay with them and they have more routes.
I fully agree, both airlines are better than wizzair in my opinion. You get what you pay for at ryanair, and easyjet have great staff. However the new boeing sky interiors for the new gen of aircraft at ryanair make the experiance that bit better!
My main reason for preferring Wizzair over Ryanair is the airport selection. I don't gain much by flying "direct" if I then have to drive for over an hour to get home from Ryanair's airport in the middle of nowhere. Wizzair generally flies to better positioned airports in my opinion.