Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (16th Sept) announced a new Winter route from Manchester to Grenoble as part of its UK Winter ’21 Schedule. Ryanair will operate a weekly flight from Manchester to the popular French ski destination – Grenoble, from the 18th December to the end of March ’22.
UK customers can now book a well-deserved winter break or adventurous ski holiday to the alpine villages surrounding Grenoble this winter season. As travel recovers to pre-Covid levels, Ryanair’s growth continues to lead traffic and tourism recovery across Europe.
To celebrate the launch of this new route, Ryanair has launched a seat sale with fares from €19.99 which must be booked by midnight Saturday 18th September on the Ryanair.com website.
Ryanair’s Director of Commercial, Jason Mc Guinness, said:
“Ryanair remains committed to re-building Europe’s aviation and tourism industry, restoring connectivity as Ryanair continues to grow in Europe and air travel returns to pre-pandemic level. As Ryanair takes delivery of 55 Boeing 737-8200 ‘Gamechanger’ aircraft this Winter, we are delighted to add this new route from Manchester to Grenoble, operating a weekly flight from 18th December.
We are launching a seat sale to celebrate the new Winter route to Grenoble, with fares available from just €19.99 for travel until the end of March 2022, which must be booked by midnight Saturday 18th September 2021. Since these amazing low fares will be snapped up quickly, customers should log onto www.ryanair.com to avoid missing out.”
New Aircraft, New Bases & Lower Costs, Sees 5 Year Traffic Growth Jump 50% From 150m To 225m Guests P.A.
Ryanair Holdings plc, today (Thurs, 16th Sept) holds its AGM at its Airside Offices in Dublin.
Based on proxy votes already received, Shareholders have approved all resolutions and will receive a detailed update on the Airline Group’s post-Covid recovery plans over the next 5 years. Subject to no adverse Covid developments, and vaccinations remaining at 90%+ across Europe, Ryanair will take delivery of 210 B737 Gamechanger aircraft over the next 5 years. These aircraft will deliver industry lowest costs, reduced emissions, and will enable Ryanair accelerate its post-Covid growth, as opportunities open up at primary and secondary airports all over Europe, particularly where legacy carriers have failed or reduced fleet sizes as a result of Covid and State Aid.
Ryanair Group airlines now expect to deliver more rapid traffic growth over the next 5 years, and have raised their 5 year growth forecast from 33% to 50%. As a result, Ryanair’s pre-Covid traffic of 149m is expected to grow to over 225m guests by March 2026, which is 25m passengers p.a. higher than the previous target of 200m.
Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary said:
“The performance of the B737 Gamechanger aircraft this summer has exceeded our expectations. Operational reliability, fuel consumption, and lower CO2 emissions have so far exceeded guidelines with very positive passenger and crew feedback to these new, more fuel efficient, quieter aircraft.
With these new deliveries, Ryanair will open 10 new bases across Europe this year as we work with airport partners to help them recover traffic & jobs post Covid, and take up slot opportunities that are being vacated by competitor airlines who have collapsed or significantly reduced their fleet sizes.
Ryanair expects to create over 5,000 new jobs for pilots, cabin crew and engineers over the next 5 years, and the Group is excited to have, earlier this week, opened a €50m Aviation Training Centre in Dublin, with 2 further high quality training centres planned for Spain and Poland over the next 5 years.
The Covid-19 pandemic has delivered an unprecedented blow to Europe’s aviation and tourism industries. Only Ryanair has used this crisis to place significantly increased aircraft orders, to expand our airport partnerships, and to secure lower operating costs so that we can pass on even lower fares to our guests, so that together with our airport partners, we can recover strongly from the Covid pandemic and deliver higher than expected growth in both traffic and jobs over the next 5 years.”
Over 200 Vacancies Among Buzz’s Network
Buzz today (15th Sept) announced a major recruitment drive for Cabin Crew for its Sofia, Vilnius and Kaunas bases as Buzz recovers and rebuilds from the Covid-19 pandemic. Buzz is hosting a Recruitment Open Day and invites all interested candidates to the Best Western Premier Sofia Airport at 10:00am next Wednesday, 22nd of September, with their CV in hand.
Buzz has just taken delivery of its first Boeing 737-8200 “Gamechanger” aircraft – which will help the airline lower costs, cut fuel consumption and lower noise and CO2 emissions. This investment in new aircraft deepens Buzz’s environmental commitment as part of Europe’s greenest, cleanest major group airline and also creates these new cabin crew job opportunities.
Buzz’s Head of Inflight, Tomasz Ostojski said:
“We are delighted to announce new cabin crew jobs for Bulgaria. These exciting opportunities offer candidates the chance to secure the best cabin crew jobs in aviation and the chance to work with Europe’s largest group airline, where hard work is rewarded with fast track career opportunities. Buzz Cabin Crew enjoy free training, great pay, industry leading five on, three off rosters, outstanding career development and world class training.
Throughout the pandemic, Buzz has worked closely with our people to save jobs and we are delighted to start planning for a return to growth over the coming years as we recover from the Covid-19 crisis. Suitable candidates should have excellent customer service skills and love to travel!’’.
Editor’s note: Candidates interested in these opportunities should attend the Recruitment Open Day with their CV. Details below:
Date: 21.09.2021
Time: 10:00
Venue: Best Western Premier Sofia Airport, Blvd Brussels 11, 1592
Over 200 Vacancies Among Ryanair Group’s Network
Ryanair Group today (15th Sept) announced a major recruitment drive for Cabin Crew for its Budapest base as Ryanair recovers and rebuilds from the Covid-19 pandemic. Ryanair Group is hosting a Recruitment Open Day and invites all interested candidates to the Airport Hotel Budapest at 11:00am next Thursday, 23rd of September, with their CV in hand.
Ryanair Group is set to take delivery of additional Boeing 737-8200 “Gamechanger” aircraft this Winter 2021 – which will help Ryanair lower costs, cut fuel consumption and lower noise and CO2 emissions. This investment in new aircraft deepens Ryanair’s environmental commitment as part of Europe’s greenest, cleanest major group airline and also creates these new cabin crew job opportunities.
Tomasz Ostojski, Head of Inflight said:
“We are delighted to announce new cabin crew jobs for Hungary. These exciting opportunities offer candidates the chance to secure the best cabin crew jobs in aviation and the chance to work with Europe’s largest group airline, where hard work is rewarded with fast track career opportunities. Ryanair Group Cabin Crew enjoy free training, great pay, industry leading five on, three off rosters, outstanding career development and world class training.
Throughout the pandemic, Ryanair Group has worked closely with our people to save jobs and we are delighted to start planning for a return to growth over the coming years as we recover from the Covid-19 crisis. Suitable candidates should have excellent customer service skills and love to travel!’’.
Editor’s note: Candidates interested in these opportunities should attend the Recruitment Open Day with their CV. Details below:
Date: 22.09.2021
Time: 11:00
Venue: Airport Hotel Budapest, 2220, Vecsés, Lőrinci u. 130/a
5,000 New Pilot And Cabin Crew Jobs To Be Created, Over Next 5 Years As Ryanair Returns To Growth
Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (Tues, 14th Sept) announced a new agreement with Airline Flight Academy (AFA) at the opening of a brand new €50m Aviation Training Centre in Santry, close to Dublin Airport. This new Training and Simulator Centre contains 3 full motion simulators, 1x 737 MAX and 2x Airbus A320, together with 2 fixed base simulators (1x Boeing 737 and 1x Airbus A320). Additionally, this new AFA Centre contains a state of the art cabin crew training and emergency evacuation device, as well as a specialist cabin fire training centre. The AFA Centre contains over 15 large classroom training centres and 5 individual pilot briefing/de-briefing rooms. Access to these new facilities will enable Ryanair to recruit and train over 5,000 new pilots, cabin crew, engineers and ground operations professionals over the next 5 years – jobs which will be necessary for crew to operate Ryanair’s 210 new Boeing 737 Gamechanger aircraft, which will enable Ryanair to grow annual traffic to 200m p.a. by 2026.
Ryanair has chosen Airline Flight Academy to be its exclusive cadet training partner. Under this agreement, Airline Flight Academy will operate and run this new €50m Training Centre, and will play a central role in recruiting the next generation of aviation professionals, including pilots, cabin crew, engineers and ground operations professionals for Ryanair’s next phase of post Covid growth and expansion.
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar said:
“After what has been an incredibly difficult 18months, today’s announcement is a real vote of confidence in the airline industry as it rebuilds after the pandemic. This €50m investment in a new training centre and the creation of 5,000 jobs across Europe, will mean fantastic opportunities for pilots, cabin crew, engineers and ground ops professionals over the next 5 years. It’s incredible growth and makes me really optimistic for the future. Congratulations to the team involved.”
Ryanair’s CEO Eddie Wilson said:
“We are honoured to welcome Tánaiste Leo Varadkar to the opening of the Airline Flight Academy Training Centre here in Santry. We have invested over €50m in this state-of-the-art Training Centre, and our agreement with AFA will deliver over 5,000 highly trained pilots, cabin crew, engineers and ground operations professionals over the next 5 years. Ryanair will create over 5,000 new jobs thanks to the expansion of our Boeing 737 fleet, with 210 MAX Gamechangers to be delivered over the next 5 years which will enable Ryanair to grow to carry 200m passengers p.a. by 2026.
The AFA team have been a recruitment and training partner of Ryanair for many years, and we look forward to continuing to invest in this agreement, which has to date, enabled Ryanair to recruit and train over 18,000 highly qualified aviation professionals.”
IAA Aviation Regulator / CEO Designate, Diarmuid Ó Conghaile said:
“We welcome the expansion of Ryanair’s training operations. It is another positive sign for the future of aviation in Ireland and the support services required. The investment in a training and simulation centre will create jobs for highly skilled workers, which will benefit the broader Irish aviation sector as it re-bounds from the crisis of the past 18 months.”
Director AFA, Francis Farrell said:
“Airline Flight Academy are honoured to have been selected as Ryanair’s exclusive cadet training partner here in Ireland. We are excited to be chosen to operate and run this new €50m Aviation Training Centre in Santry, and have committed to delivering Ryanair over 5,000 highly trained pilots, cabin crew, engineers, and ground ops professionals using these state of the art facilities in Santry. Ireland has always been a centre for high quality aviation professionals and AFA’s agreement with Ryanair will create 5,000 new jobs, both here in Ireland and across Europe as Ryanair continues to recover and grow post Covid.”
4 Based Aircraft, 6 New Routes (28 In Total)
Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (8th Sept) announced its Winter 2021/22 schedule from Birmingham, opening six new routes (28 in total) – connecting Birmingham to more exciting European destinations from October. As travel recovers to pre-Covid levels, Ryanair’s growth continues to lead traffic and tourism recovery across Europe.
UK families and visitors can now book a much-deserved Autumn break to one of Ryanair’s six new routes from Birmingham including Bergamo, Lisbon, Bucharest, Shannon, Turin and Vilnius. To celebrate, Ryanair has launched a £19.99 seat sale for travel until the end of November 2021, which must be booked by midnight Friday, 10th September on www.Ryanair.com.
| BIRMINGHAM – 6 NEW
WINTER 2021 ROUTES |
| Bergamo |
| Lisbon |
| Bucharest |
| Shannon |
| Turin |
| Vilnius |
Ryanair’s Director of Commercial, Jason McGuinness said:
“Ryanair remains committed to re-building the UK’s tourism industry and strengthening connectivity as Ryanair continues to grow in Europe and travel returns to pre-pandemic level. As Ryanair takes delivery of 55 Boeing 737-8200 ‘Gamechanger’ aircraft this Winter, we are delighted to announce these six new routes from Birmingham this Winter – operating a total of 28 routes.
As travel continues to grow and consumer confidence in air travel returns, Ryanair once again calls on the UK Govt to scrap or suspend APD (air passenger duty), to allow airlines quickly recover connectivity, jobs and tourism in the aftermath of the pandemic. APD makes UK airports very uncompetitive versus Europe, where Ryanair continues to add capacity, having opened a number of bases in recent months in the likes of Zagreb, Stockholm, Billund and Riga. While Ryanair is committed to the UK and its Birmingham airport, the lack of Govt support continues to create further barriers to boosting traffic and growth.
We are launching a seat sale to celebrate the new Winter routes from Birmingham, with fares available from just £19.99 for travel until end Nov 2021, which must be booked by midnight Friday, 10th September 2021. Our customers can now book in a winter getaway to Bergamo, Lisbon, Bucharest, Shannon, Turin, Vilnius and many more. Since these amazing low fares will be snapped up quickly, customers should log onto www.ryanair.com to avoid missing out.”
Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (Mon 6th Sept) announced that its negotiations with Boeing for a MAX10 order (to follow its current deliveries for 210 B737-8200 “Gamechanger” aircraft) have ended without any agreement on pricing.
Ryanair will take delivery of over 200 B737 “Gamechanger” aircraft over the next 5 years from 2021 to 2025. These deliveries will see Ryanair’s fleet grow to over 600 aircraft capable of carrying over 200m guests p.a.
Ryanair and Boeing have been in discussions about a large follow on order for Boeing MAX10 aircraft over the past 10 months. However, last week it became clear that the pricing gap between the partners could not be closed and accordingly, both sides have agreed to waste no more time on these negotiations.
Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary said:
“We are disappointed we couldn’t reach agreement with Boeing on a MAX10 order. However, Boeing have a more optimistic outlook on aircraft pricing than we do, and we have a disciplined track record of not paying high prices for aircraft.
We have a more than sufficient order pipeline to allow us to grow strongly over the next 5 years with a Boeing 737 fleet, which will rise to over 600 aircraft and will enable Ryanair to capitalise on the extraordinary growth opportunities that are emerging all over Europe as the Continent recovers from the Covid pandemic.
We do not share Boeing’s optimistic pricing outlook, although this may explain why in recent weeks other large Boeing customers such as Delta and Jet2, have been placing new orders with Airbus, rather than Boeing”.