Ryanair: Rome Ciampino – Marseille

Marseille (MRS) to Rome Ciampino (CIA) is one of the new routes from Ciampino Airport in Rome that Ryanair (FR) has launched with the beginning of the winter season. The route is operated three-times weekly with, as ever, Ryanair's single type of aircraft, the Boeing 737-800 with 189 seats. 

This is one of the routes that Ryanair used to operate wen it had a base in Marseille. Although it was abandoned last year due to disagreements on taxes with the French government, Ryanair maintains a large presence in Marseille's MP² low cost terminal. Summer flights are operated to Cagliari in Italy, in addition to the recently launched flights to Milan Bergamo.

.2.4.../ FR9795/ CIA09.45-11.15MRS/ FR9796/ MRS11.40-13.10CIA

.....6./ FR9795/ CIA11.55-13.25MRS/ FR9796/ MRS13.50-15.20CIA

These flights will probably attract mostly tourists, due to the fact that they are not really very well-timed for business trips and Air France operates this route at higher frequency from its new Marseille base, with flights are to Rome Fiumicino, Rome's larger airport.
Marseille (MRS) vers Rome Fiumicino (FCO), une nouvelle ligne Ryanair (FR) qui vient d'être inaugurée, sera effectuée trois fois par semaine en Boeing 737-800 de 189 places. C'est une des lignes que Ryanair opérait lorsqu'elle avait toujours une base opérationnelle à Marseille. La ligne cible surtout le trafic loisirs entre ces deux villes, les vols Air France étant mieux optimisés pour les voyageurs affaires.

Ryanair: Bordeaux – Rome Ciampino

Bordeaux (BOD) to Rome Ciampino (CIA) is a new route offered by Ryanair (FR) since 30 October 2011, to be operated with the company's 189-seater Boeing 737-800 aircraft on a four-times-weekly basis.

Ryanair already operate a small number of routes from Bordeaux Airport's low-cost terminal 'Billi' and Rome Ciampino will be the sixth destination Ryanair serves from the airport, the second destination in Italy after Bologna.

The flights could potentially be of use to business travellers, however on the whole the route will likely attract leisure passengers in much higher numbers. The schedule enables a variety of trip lengths.

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..3...7/ FR7188/ CIA16.20-18.05BOD/ FR7189/ BOD18.30-20.20CIA

Ryanair's main competition on the route will be Air France's route to Rome Fiumicino, with daily flights operated by Regional. easyJet also operate flights to Milan Malpensa from Bordeaux.

Ryanair vient d'inaugurer une ligne entre Bordeaux (BOD) et Rome Ciamipino (CIA). La ligne est desservie quatre fois par semaine depuis le 30 octobre dernier en Boeing 737-800 de 189 places.

La ligne pourrait attirer une partie du marché affaires vers Rome, mais une ligne vers l'autre aéroport à Rome, celui de Fiumicino, par Air France/Régional est opérée 7 fois par semaine, plus adapté à la clientèle affaires. La ligne devrait cependant attirer un bon nombre de voyageurs loisirs des deux côtés de la ligne. Les horaires des vols permettent des séjours de durées variables.

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