Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (22^nd Apr) launched its Summer 2025 schedule for Oslo Torp, offering 14 exciting routes to top holiday destinations like Alicante, Dubrovnik, Pisa, and Zagreb, as well as highly-sought-after city break destinations like Manchester, Milan, Krakow, and Riga. Ryanair’s exciting new schedule for Oslo Torp offers Norwegian citizens more choice at the lowest fares in Europe when booking their Summer 2025 getaways, while driving invaluable inbound tourism and supporting over 800 local jobs at the same time.

Ryanair’s strong Summer 2025 schedule in Norway comes as part of our continued expansion in the region. While the Government’s decision to reduce the Aviation Tax to 60 NOK per passenger starting in January 2025 is a step in the right direction, if the Govt wants to see meaningful traffic and tourism growth in Norway, they must fully abolish the Aviation Tax, as their Swedish neighbours have done. Sweden’s economy is already benefiting from this decision, with Ryanair responding with 2 extra based aircraft ($200M investment) and an additional 10 Ryanair routes for Summer 2025. Lower access costs are the only way to drive growth.

To celebrate the launch of its Summer 2025 schedule for Oslo Torp, Ryanair has launched a limited-time seat sale with fares from just 179 NOK, exclusively at www.ryanair.com.

Ryanair’s CMO Dara Brady said:

“Ryanair is pleased to announce our Summer 2025 schedule for Oslo Torp, with 14 routes including popular destinations like Alicante, Dubrovnik, Krakow, Manchester, Pisa, and Riga giving Norwegian citizens/visitors even more choice at the lowest fares in Europe.

However, further growth can only come if Norway takes action to abolish its uncompetitive Aviation Tax. Although reduced to 60 NOK per passenger since January 2025, Norway is still much less competitive than other EU countries, like Sweden, who have fully scrapped the Aviation Tax to stimulate traffic and tourism growth, and as a result, are benefiting from 2 extra Ryanair aircraft and 10 extra Ryanair routes for Summer 2025. By following suit, Norway could attract more airlines, like Ryanair, to invest and deliver low fare connectivity, traffic, jobs and economic growth that would position Norway as a key aviation hub in Scandinavia.

To celebrate the launch of its Summer 2025 schedule in Oslo Torp, Ryanair has launched a limited-time seat sale with fares from just 179 NOK, exclusively at www.ryanair.com.”

Torp Sandefjord Airport ‘s Traffic Development and Communication Manager, Tine Kleive-Mathisen said:

“We are very happy that Ryanair offer such a great variety of popular destinations from Oslo Torp, from sun and beach destinations in Spain, Italy, and Croatia to city-breaks in London, Manchester, Riga as well as a variety of beautiful cultural cities in Poland.

We fully agree with Ryanair and their appeal to completely get rid of the Aviation Tax (as in Sweden) which has been reduced to NOK 60 within Europe as this is important to maintain a competitive environment to attract routes to Norway as to develop and maintaining an attractive route net and to grow tourism in our country. We operate in a competitive and international market to attract capacity. The margins are small, and we need competitive framework conditions to secure further positive development.”

RYANAIR’S LOW FARE FLIGHTS NOW AVAILABLE TO EXPEDIA CUSTOMERS

Following the announcement of their “Approved OTA” partnership in July last, Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (14 Apr) announced that its low-fare flights across the airline’s industry-leading network of 230+ destinations are now available to book on Expedia Group – one of the world’s largest travel technology companies – providing Expedia Group customers with more choice and value for their European travels.

This partnership also enables Expedia Group customers who book Ryanair flights to have their correct contact and payment info provided to Ryanair, ensuring that they have access to their myRyanair account and receive important flight information directly without needing to complete Ryanair’s customer verification process, which unauthorised OTA customers must continue to do.

Ryanair CMO, Dara Brady, said:
“We’re pleased to announce that Ryanair flights are now available to Expedia Group customers to book, with full price transparency and direct access to their booking. We look forward to working with Expedia Group and carrying their customers onboard Ryanair’s market-leading network of low-fare flights and routes this summer and beyond.”

Expedia Group Chief Commercial Officer, Greg Schulze, said, “Our partnership with Ryanair marks a significant milestone in enhancing travel options for our customers. By integrating their extensive network, including unique routes across Europe, this collaboration offers our customers in the U.S. and Europe expanded choice and value, ultimately making every journey a lasting memory for our travelers.”

Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (Tues, 8 Apr) confirmed that it has filed legal proceedings in the Polish courts claiming over €3,000 in damages against a passenger who disrupted flight FR7124 from Berlin to Marrakesh on 9 January. This passenger’s inexcusable behaviour forced this flight to divert to Seville, where the aircraft landed, and the passenger was offloaded causing 170 passengers and 6 crew to face unnecessary disruption. It is completely unacceptable that passengers who work hard to enjoy a trip away with family/friends are robbed of the pleasure due to one passenger’s failure to behave. In addition, Ryanair has issued this disruptive passenger with a 5-year travel ban and has reported him to the Guardia Civil.

Ryanair is committed to ensuring that all passengers and crew travel in a safe and respectful environment, without unnecessary disruption caused by a tiny number of unruly passengers. Ryanair has a strict zero tolerance policy towards passenger misconduct and will continue to take decisive action to combat unruly passenger behaviour on aircraft for the benefit of the vast majority of passengers who do not disrupt flights.

A Ryanair spokesperson said:

“It is unacceptable that passengers are suffering unnecessary disruption as a result of one unruly passenger’s behaviour. Yet this was regrettably the case for passengers on this flight from Berlin to Marrakesh in January last, which was forced to divert to Seville as a result of an individual passenger’s disruptive behaviour, causing €3,000 in damages. We have now filed civil proceedings to recover these costs from this passenger.

This demonstrates just one of the many consequences that passengers who disrupt flights will face as part of Ryanair’s zero tolerance policy, and we hope this action will deter further disruptive behaviour on flights so that passengers and crew can travel in a comfortable and respectful environment.”

RYANAIR MAR TRAFFIC GROWS 10% TO 15.0M

Ryanair Holdings plc today (Wed, 2 Apr) released Mar 2025 traffic stats as follows:

Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (Thurs, 27 Mar) welcomed the decision by the Malta court to convict a passenger who disrupted flight FR5205 from Cologne to Malta on 22 March last by smoking onboard and refusing to follow crew instructions. The passenger pleaded guilty in court and received a €2,000 fine. 

Ryanair is committed to ensuring that all passengers and crew travel in a safe and respectful environment free of unnecessary disruption caused by a tiny number of unruly passengers. Ryanair has a strict zero tolerance policy towards passenger misconduct and will continue to take action to combat unruly passenger behaviour on aircraft for the benefit of the vast majority of passengers who do not disrupt flights.

A Ryanair spokesperson said:

“It is unacceptable that passengers, many of whom are travelling with young families, are forced to suffer unnecessary disruption because of one unruly passenger’s behaviour. Ryanair supports Malta court decision to issue a €2,000 fine to an unruly passenger who disrupted flight FR5205 from Cologne to Malta on Sat last (22 Mar). This underscores our commitment to maintaining a safe and respectful environment for both crew and passengers on all Ryanair flights.

Ryanair has a strict zero tolerance policy towards passenger misconduct, and we will continue to take action, including travel bans, supporting investigations by local law enforcement authorities, and pursuing civil damages to combat passenger misconduct onboard our flights.”

FIRST TIME ANY EUROPEAN AIRLINE HAS CARRIED 200M PASSENGERS IN JUST ONE YEAR

Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, welcomes onboard its 200 millionth passenger for 2024/2025; The 84-year-old Maria Cornelia Vos, who flew Fuerteventura to Madrid yesterday (Wed, 26 March), landing at 12:35 local. 200M passengers in one calendar year is a historic new record for Ryanair, and it is the first time ever that any European airline has carried 200M passengers in just one year.

Ryanair’s CEO Michael O’Leary said;

“We are delighted to welcome Mrs. Maria Cornelia Vos as our 200 millionth passenger this year. Ryanair is proud to have carried 200M passengers in 2024/2025 and we are pleased that these 200M passengers have saved on average €5billion, compared to the average air fares of our competitor airlines.”

Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (Wed, 19 Mar) confirmed that it has initiated a private criminal prosecution through the Spanish courts against a passenger who disrupted flight FR2001 from Lanzarote to Santiago on 17 January last. This passenger’s inexcusable behaviour caused a 40-minute departure delay and unnecessary disruption to 137 passengers. The passenger, who claimed to be a UN diplomat with “diplomatic immunity”, attempted to take a seat that was not assigned to him and became verbally abusive when crew asked to see his boarding card. He was removed from the flight by the Guardia Civil. 

Ryanair has a strict zero tolerance policy towards passenger misconduct and is dedicated to taking decisive action to combat unruly behaviour for the benefit of all passengers and crew. Ryanair will continue to uphold its commitment to providing a safe and enjoyable travel experience for everyone.

A Ryanair spokesperson said:

“It is unacceptable that passengers, many of whom are on a family holiday, are suffering unnecessary delay as a result of one unruly passenger’s behaviour. Yet this was regrettably the case for passengers on this flight from Lanzarote to Santiago in January, during which a disruptive passenger caused a departure delay due to his misconduct.

We have initiated a private criminal prosecution against this passenger, in which the court may impose a sentence of 3-12 months’ imprisonment or a fine of 6-18 months’ salary.  These are just some of the potential consequences under Ryanair’s zero tolerance policy for passengers who disrupt flights.

We hope this example will deter further disruptive behaviour on Ryanair flights, so that passengers and crew can travel in a comfortable and respectful environment as is their right.”