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  • Ryanair launches over 700 winter routes for 2021-2022

    Ryanair launches over 700 winter routes for 2021-2022

    Ryanair launched its Winter 21/22 schedule, covering some of the most popular destinations for trips taking off from late October.

    Ever popular with its customers, Ryanair has launched routes to the likes of sunny Cyprus, Gran Canaria, the Greek islands, Sicily and Malaga for Winter ’21.

    Avid skiers who missed out on their trip to the slopes can dust off their skis with popular destinations such as Turin, Milan and Salzburg set to welcome visitors once again next winter.

    Also, Ryanair has launched a seat sale with fares available from €29.99 for travel from October ’21 – March ’22, available for booking on the Ryanair.com website only until midnight, Sunday 14th Feb 2021.

  • Ryanair reports Q3 loss of €306m as traffic falls by 78%

    Ryanair reports Q3 loss of €306m as traffic falls by 78%

    Ryanair reported a Q3 loss of €306m, compared to a PY Q3 profit of €88m. Q3 traffic fell from 36m to just 8m (-78%).

    Despite the results, In Dec., Ryanair increased its firm order for the B737-8200 ”Gamechanger” aircraft by 75 to 210 aircraft. 

    These environmentally friendly aircraft have 4% more seats, but burn 16% less fuel and lower noise emissions by 40%.

    Christmas & New Year traffic was severely impacted by UK travel bans imposed at short notice by many EU Govts on 19 & 20 Dec. 

    These flight bans, and travel restrictions, saw the Ryanair’s Dec. traffic fall by 83% to just 1.9m passengers. 

    Ryanair expects the latest lockdowns and pre-arrival Covid test requirement to materially reduce flight schedules and traffic through to Easter. 

    The group’s full-year (FY21) traffic forecast was therefore reduced to ”between 26m to 30m” passengers.

    The Covid pandemic has caused the closure of EU airlines including Flybe, Germanwings, Level and Montenegro Airlines.

    Norwegian has already entered a creditor protection examinership and Eurocontrol predicts more EU airline failures in 2021.

  • Ryanair to invest $200m in a new base at Venice Treviso

    Ryanair to invest $200m in a new base at Venice Treviso

    Ryanair new base at Venice Treviso will open on the 30th March 2021, with 2 based aircraft, an investment of $200m, and 45 routes connecting the airport both domestically & internationally to over 20 countries across Europe.

    Ryanair will deliver increased connectivity with the Veneto region across its 3 airports of Venice Marco Polo, Verona and Venice Treviso, with 60 routes in total, that will deliver over 3m customers p.a. and support over 2,000 jobs.

    S21 in Venice Treviso:

    • 2 based aircraft ($200m investment) from 30th March 2021,
    • 45 routes S21 (6 domestic / 39 international),
    • 18 new (3 domestic, 15 international), including leisure and business routes such as Alghero, Alicante, Frankfurt-Hahn, Paphos, Pescara, Riga, Tel Aviv, Thessaloniki, Trapani.

    S21 in Venice Marco Polo:

    • Tot. 6 routes S21 (4 domestic / 2 international),
    • Increased frequencies on 3 routes, including Barcelona (up to 10pw), London Stansted (up to 19pw) and Palermo (up to 12pw).

    S21 in Verona:

    • Tot. 9 routes S21 (5 domestic / 4 international),
    • Increased frequencies on 2 routes, including Birmingham (up to 2pw) and Cagliari (up to 4pw).
  • Ryanair orders another 75 Boeing Max-8200 aircraft

    Ryanair orders another 75 Boeing Max-8200 aircraft

    Ryanair signed a purchase agreement with Boeing for 75 new MAX-8200 aircraft, which increases its firm order for the Boeing aircraft from 135 to 210, with a total value of over $22bn.

    Ryanair expects to take the first deliveries of these new aircraft from early 2021. These will be delivered over a 4-year period between spring 2021 and December 2024.

    Ryanair, which (prior to the Covid-19 crisis) was on track to carry over 150m passengers last year, will use these new aircraft to grow its services into new EU countries and markets.

    Ryanair and Boeing have agreed revised delivery dates, and have also agreed compensation for the direct costs incurred by Ryanair over the past 18 months due to delivery delays.

    The Boeing 737 MAX-8200 aircraft will be the most audited, most regulated in aviation history.

    This new 197 seat aircraft delivers 8 more seats per flight, yet burns 16% less fuel, and lowers noise emissions by 40%.

  • Ryanair reported losses after summer season for the first time in the last 30 years

    Ryanair reported losses after summer season for the first time in the last 30 years

    Ryanair reported losses of 226 million euros in the third quarter of 2020, compared to a profit of 910 million euros in the same period in 2019, amid travel restrictions imposed by European Union governments.

    It is the first time in the last 30 years that the Irish airline has reported losses in the summer season.

    Revenue fell by 78% to €1.18bn as traffic fell 80% to 17.1m. With almost zero Q1 traffic, the vast majority of H1 revenue was earned in Q2.

    On Monday, Ryanair shares were down 1%, while low-cost airline easyJet and International Airlines Group (owner British Airways) fell by more than 5% after the British government imposed a new national lockdown.

  • Ryanair to cut winter capacity from 60% to 40%

    Ryanair to cut winter capacity from 60% to 40%

    Ryanair released its revised winter schedule. Due to increased flight restrictions imposed by EU Govts, air travel to/from much of Central Europe, the UK, Ireland, Austria, Belgium and Portugal have been heavily curtailed.

    This has caused forward bookings to weaken slightly in October, but materially in November & December.

    In light of these weaker bookings, and Ryanair’s plan to operate with a 70% load factors, Ryanair has further reduced its winter schedule (Nov – Mar) taking capacity down from 60% to 40% of prior year.

    Ryanair expects to maintain up to 65% of its winter route network, but with reduced frequencies.

    In addition to the winter closure of bases in Cork, Shannon, and Toulouse, Ryanair has announced significant base aircraft cuts in Belgium, Germany, Spain, Portugal and Vienna.  

    With this greatly reduced winter capacity and load factors of approx. 70%, Ryanair now expects full year (FY21) traffic to fall to approx. 38m guests, although this guidance could be further revised downwards.

  • Wizz Air and Ryanair to launch new routes from UK to Romania

    Wizz Air and Ryanair to launch new routes from UK to Romania

    Wizz Air has announced two new routes from Iași and Craiova to Birmingham in Great Britainm, starting from 23 and 24 October 2020. Tickets are available at fares starting from RON 89.

    The flights from Iași to Birmingham will commence on 23 October and be operated twice/week, on Wednesday and Sunday, while flights from Craiova to Birmingham will start on 24 October and will be available on Tuesday and Saturday.

    This is the second route from Craiova to Great Britain and the eight in the Wizz Air network from Craiova, while from Iași, the new service is the third connection to Great Britain, taking the entire network of routes from Iași to 20. 

    Ryanair to launch a new route from Oradea to London Stansted

    Ryanair announced a new London Stansted route to Oradea, with a twice weekly service commencing in December 2020, as part of Ryanair’s London Stansted Winter 2020 and Summer 2021 schedules.

    Ryanair has launched a seat sale with fares available from just £14.99, for travel until the end of January.

  • Ryanair cuts flight capacity in October by another 20%

    Ryanair cuts flight capacity in October by another 20%

    Ryanair announced that it would cut its October capacity by a further 20% (in addition to the 20% cut already announced in mid-August).

    Ryanair now expects its October capacity to fall from 50% to approx. 40% of its October 2019 levels, but expects to maintain a 70%+ load factor at this reduced schedule.  

    The airline confirmed that these capacity reductions were necessary due to damage caused to forward bookings by continuous changes in EU Government travel restrictions and policies, many of which are introduced at short notice.

    In some countries (most notably Ireland), where the Govt have maintained excessive and defective travel restrictions since 1 July, Covid-19 rates have risen in recent weeks to 50 per 100,000 pop. – more than double those of Germany and Italy – where intra-EU air travel was freely permitted since 1 July.

  • Italy is the most most popular Ryanair destination for Erasmus students

    Italy is the most most popular Ryanair destination for Erasmus students

    Ryanair and the Erasmus Student Network celebrated today, 15 September, the launch of their fourth year partnership.

    This partnership offers Erasmus students a dedicated ESN booking platform on the Ryanair.com website, where they can avail of 10% flight discounts on 4 one-way flights and a free checked-in bag with every flight booked.

    Italy and Spain are the most popular destinations over the last three years with over 95.000 bookings made on flights to Italy and 80.000 to Spain.

    Erasmus Student Network include people from over 500 Universities across almost 50 countries.

  • Ryanair to add more flights from Liverpool to Vilnius

    Ryanair to add more flights from Liverpool to Vilnius

    Ryanair announced it will add more flights from Liverpool to Vilnius, in light of strong demand from both British and Lithuanian consumers.

    Ryanair will now fly 3 times weekly (+1) from Liverpool to Vilnius from the 25th October as part of its Winter 2020 schedule.

    Ryanair’s British customers can now book a trip to Vilnius as far out as March 2021. The airline launched a seat sale with fares available from just £19.99, for travel until the end of December 2020, which must be booked by midnight Thursday (17 Sept).

  • 50% off over 750.000 seats on Ryanair flights

    50% off over 750.000 seats on Ryanair flights

    Ryanair is launching 50% off over 750.000 seats for travel in September and Octomber for overs 240 destinations.

    Customers only have 2 days to avail of these special fares and must book their flights before midnight, Wednesday, 9th September.

    Ryanair’s Alejandra Ruiz said: “Customers can book this unmissable half price deal to top holiday and city break destinations across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.”

  • AIR SALE! 1 million Ryanair seats at only 5 euros

    AIR SALE! 1 million Ryanair seats at only 5 euros

    Ryanair launched its biggest seat sale of 2020 with fares as low as €5, across 1 million seats, for 48 hours only.

    Any of Ryanair’s 240 destinations can be booked for less than the cost of a pint.

    To avail of these 48 hour special fares customers must be quick and visit the Ryanair.com website to book their flights before midnight, Wednesday, 2 September.

    Ryanair’s Dara Brady said: ”To avail of these special fares customers must be quick and visit the Ryanair.com website to book their flights before midnight, Wednesday, 2 September, for travel in Sept & Oct”.