4.11.11

Ryanair: Marseille – Milan Bergamo





Marseille (MRS) to Milan Bergamo (BGY) is a new route that was launched by Ryanair (FR) on 30 October 2011. It is flown 10 times weekly (very frequently for a Ryanair route, especially a new one) with the standard 189-seater Ryanair Boeing 737-800 equipment. Bergamo airport is situated about an hour's drive outside of Milan.

The route links the second-largest cities of France and Italy, separated by 400km (250mi) of quite mountainous terrain. The trip can take up to five and a half hours by car. The route has a decent leisure and business potential, and the schedules take full advantage of this. Unusually well-timed for Ryanair flights, the scheduling permits day returns on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and a choice of flights which would be handy for weekend breaks. 

1.3.56./ FR6061/ BGY07.00-08.10MRS/ FR6062/ MRS08.35-09.45BGY
.2.4..7/ FR6061/ BGY14.10-15.20MRS/ FR6062/ MRS22.45-23.55BGY
1....../ FR6063/ BGY19.20-20.30MRS/ FR6064/ MRS20.55-22.05BGY
..3..../ FR6063/ BGY19.40-20.50MRS/ FR6064/ MRS21.15-22.25BGY
....5../ FR6063/ BGY20.55-22.05MRS/ FR6064/ MRS22.30-23.40BGY

Historically, the route has not seen a great deal of traffic. The route to Milan Malpensa (MXP), Milan's main airport has been continuously served for almost a decade by the almost-completely-unheard-of airline Twinjet (T7), which despite its name operates only tiny 19-seater Beech 1900D aircraft on a variety of marginal French routes. It has 9 flights a week (double-daily Monday to Thursday, one on Friday) but the pricing makes the flights only really suitable to business travellers.
A couple of years ago, Baboo (F7) started flights on the same route, with a double daily frequency on a triangle route from Geneva (GVA-MRS-MXP-GVA in the mornings, the opposite direction in the evenings)with considerably larger 74-seater Dash 8-Q400 aircraft. However, the route did not last more than a couple of seasons.
Now, Ryanair will also face competition from the recently launched Air France flights, which also operate directly into Malpensa airport. Originally scheduled to be operated with mainline Air France aircraft (therefore much larger aircraft), for an undisclosed reason (probably lack of demand because of Ryanair competition) the flights have been downgraded to the much smaller 46-seater ATR 42 aircraft of Airlinair, which link the two cities twelve times a week.


Marseille (MRS) vers Milan Bergame (BGY) est une nouvelle ligne de la compagnie à bas coûts Ryanair (FR), qui a été lancé le 30 octobre 2011. La ligne est effectuée avec un appareil Boeing 737-800 de 189 places, à raison de 10 vols hebdomadaires.
Ce vol reliera les deuxièmes villes de la France et l'Italie, qui sont distants de 400km. Les horaires de vols permettent un retour dans la journée les lundis, mercredis et vendredis, et un ample choix de vols pour partir un weekend.
La concurrence sur cette ligne vole sur l'aéroport de Malpensa (MXP), plus proche de Milan que celui de Bergame ; des vols sont proposés par Twinjet, 9 fois par semaine et par Air France, une nouveauté récente qui relie les deux villes douze fois par semaine.




Passengers boarding a Ryanair Boeing 737-800
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