Ryanair announced a decision to use an option it had on 25 Boeing 737 MAX 200, pushing its current order to 135 aircraft. That option is priced at $3 billion. The first plane should be delivered before spring 2019. The additional Boeing 737 MAX 200s will help Ryanair to reach its objective of 200 million […]
With a fleet of 429 Boeing 737, Ryanair is both one of the biggest airlines in the world and a loyal customer of Boeing. However, that loyalty could be changing in a near-future, as Ryanair acquired Laudamotion, a company flying 15 A320, and planning to buy even more. Using a single model of plane is […]
Europe’s biggest budget airline is to close its base at Glasgow in November. Ryanair will move the aircraft that currently operates five routes from Glasgow to Edinburgh. It blames Air Passenger Duty (APD), the £13 tax on all departing passengers aged 16 or over. The airline’s chief commercial officer, David O’Brien said: “Ryanair regrets these […]
Ryanair pilots have voted in favor of a strike due to an ongoing dispute between the company and its employees about the right to collective bargaining, according to IMPACT trade union. According to the agency, several trade unions across Europe are preparing for strikes in connection with the demand for negotiations on the conclusion of […]
Ryanair named Peter Bellew – the current Chief Executive Officer at Malaysia Airlines – its new Chief Operations Officer (COO). Ryanair applauds the return of its ex-employee, who will now be tasked with solving the consequences of the pilot rotation fiasco. Malaysia Airlines, however, claims that Bellew’s leave came out of the blue. He is […]
A Ryanair plane has been escorted by two RAF Typhoon fighter jets and diverted to Stansted Airport, London. The security measures were invoked after a suspected bomb-hoax. Ryanair’s Boeing 737 was escorted by two RAF jets after Lithuanian authorities received what is suspected as a ‘hoax security alert’. The plane was diverted from its Kaunas […]
Ryanair is facing enforcement action from the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) for “persistently misleading passengers” about their rights, after 34 routes were suspended and a second wave of flight cancellations, affecting 400,000 passengers, was announced. In a letter to the Dublin-based carrier, the CAA stated that the airline’s CEO, Michael O’Leary, was wrong to […]
Hundreds of Ryanair pilots may be forced to give up their holiday plans to keep planes flying as the carrier scrambles to cope with a public relations disaster after it announced it will be cancelling up to 50 flights a day until October 31, citing a “mess up” in how it schedules time-off for pilots. […]
Airline faces passenger revolt, slump in share price and compensation bill of £30m as it admits it ‘messed up’ Ryanair has promised to publish details by end of tomorrowof all the flights it plans to cancel over the next six weeks following a passenger revolt, a slump in its share price and an expected compensation […]
Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (19 July), called for an end to the repeated delays in the delivery of a second runway at Dublin Airport and urged the Attorney General’s Department to expedite the simple piece of primary legislation (the statutory instrument) to make the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) the competent authority to monitor noise […]
