Who are the movers in Europan Low Fares aviation and who try not to rock the boat

The main Low Fares encumbents ( = they with the Lowest Costs) in the European landscape are taking wildly different approaches to the first full winter of the CoVid19 pandemic. 

Wizz is seeking opportunities where they appear and quickly moving into markets where the (semi) incumbent is in trouble. Sample in Norway where they have announced and quickly started their first domestic routes and announced even more to come when Norwegian went to the courts for protection. By the time any other seeking opportunities come looking post vaccine, Wizz will already have operated on the routes for more than 6 months.

Ryanair on the other hand has spent the CoVid19 crying about different governments actions, and their response to pandemic changes is to kick the toys out of the pram and abandon routes and airports. Exactly as they used to do when an airport tried to introduce new charges. You haven't seen them really anounce an entry into any really new market, just adjusting frequencies in those they already are established in. That is definately not neither rocking the boat nor moving the market. And even without the new ExMax's they have plenty of planes that should fly more.

EasyJet that not really is in the position of the 2 previously mentioned due to much less saved up capital, have had to take an overall company size reducing approach. But they are also more than the others hit with a tripple wammy in form of pandemic, Brexit and an ongoing disagreement with their major shareholder and founder.


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