RYANAIR CELEBRATES 20 MILLION PASSENGERS AT SHANNON AIRPORT

13 Aug 2024

Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (13 Aug) celebrated over 20 million passengers through Shannon Airport since it began operations to/from Shannon in 1987. Ryanair was the first low-cost airline to operate at Shannon Airport and over the past 37 years, has grown its operation from a single route to/from London Luton to 26 routes connecting 10 countries across Europe. Ryanair has invested heavily in the region, including its 3 Shannon based aircraft – an investment of $300 million and supporting over 1,250 local jobs, including 90 highly paid aviation jobs – as well its state-of-the-art 3-bay maintenance facility – a €10 million investment which created a further 200 high-skill local jobs.

This Summer Ryanair is operating a robust schedule at Shannon Airport with over 90 weekly flights across 26 routes, including an exciting new route to Gran Canaria, providing customers in the mid-west with unbeatable choice at the lowest fares when booking their Summer ’24 getaways.

Ryanair’s Head of Communications, Jade Kirwan said:

“We are delighted to celebrate over 20 million Ryanair passengers through Shannon Airport. This significant milestone showcases Ryanair’s continued growth and investment at Shannon, where Ryanair has operated proudly since 1987, delivering growth, investment, and jobs for the mid-west.

This Summer, Ryanair is operating a robust schedule at Shannon Airport with over 90 weekly flights across 26 routes, including our new Gran Canaria route, on our 3 Shannon based aircraft – an investment of $300m and supporting over 1,250 local jobs. We look forward to carrying millions more passengers on Ryanair’s low-fare flights to/from Shannon over the years to come.”

RYANAIR CELEBRATES 10 YEARS OF OPERATIONS IN BUCHAREST WITH 15 MILLION PASSENGERS

09 Aug 2024

Ryanair, Europe’s No. 1 airline, today (09th Aug) celebrates the double milestone of reaching 10 years of operations at Bucharest airport and 15 million passengers, since our first ever flight in 2014. As part of Ryanair’s Summer schedule in Otopeni, Ryanair is operating its biggest ever schedule with over 370 weekly flights across 35 routes, including 3 new exciting routes to popular hotspots Leeds, Malaga & Skiathos.

To celebrate these significant milestones in Bucharest, Ryanair has launched a seat sale with fares starting from €19.99 available for booking only on ryanair.com until Sunday, 11th of August.

A Ryanair’s spokesperson said:

“We are delighted to celebrate 10 years of operations and 15 million Ryanair passengers through our Otopeni base. These significant milestones resound Ryanair’s continued growth and investment in Bucharest, with 2 aircraft based at the airport this Summer – an investment of $200m, supporting over 1,500 local jobs. This Summer Ryanair is operating our biggest ever schedule to/from Otopeni Airport with over 370 weekly flights across 35 fantastic routes, including Ryanair’s 3 new summer routes to Leeds, Malaga & Skiathos.

While other carriers reduce capacity, Ryanair continues to grow in Romania by over 20% this year. Ryanair has the resources to expand even further in Romania subject to competitive costs at Romanian Airports. We look forward to working with our airport partners to continue delivering more low-fare growth to Romania in the coming years.”

RYANAIR ANNOUNCES APPROVED OTA PARTNERSHIP WITH OMIO

09 Aug 2024

Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (09 August) announced its latest “Approved OTA” partnership with Omio, the leading global transportation platform – who will now be authorised to provide Ryanair’s low-fare flights to their customers, enhancing traveller choices and experiences for those seeking value and convenience.

This is great news for Omio customers who want to access Ryanair’s low fares, unbeatable choice of 240+ destinations, and impeccable service. Similar to Ryanair’s existing “Approved OTA” agreements, this latest deal guarantees Omio customers who book Ryanair flights via Omio, that their correct contact and payment info is 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’s CMO, Dara Brady, said:

“We are pleased to announce our latest “Approved OTA” partnership with global transportation platform, Omio. Through this new agreement, Omio customers will be able to book Ryanair’s low-fare flights, with the guarantee of full price transparency and full access to their booking. We look forward to working with Omio and carrying their customers onboard our market-leading network of Ryanair flights in the coming months.”

Veronica Diquattro, President B2C Europe at Omio said:

“This is a major milestone in our collaboration with Ryanair. Travellers will have direct access to Ryanair flights on Omio, which enables customers with options and empowers choice. By combining Ryanair’s wide range of budget-friendly flights with Omio’s extensive travel options, Ryanair and Omio’s alliance helps our goal for travellers which is to offer seamless, convenient, and multimodal travel experiences to people worldwide.”

RYANAIR CELEBRATES OVER 10 MILLION PASSENGERS AT BOURNEMOUTH AIRPORT

07 Aug 2024

Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (07 August) celebrated carrying over 10 million passengers through Bournemouth Airport since it began operations to/from Bournemouth in 1996. Ryanair was the first low-cost airline to operate at Bournemouth Airport and has grown its presence from a single route to/from Dublin to a 20-route operation connecting 9 countries across Europe with its 2 Bournemouth based aircraft – an investment of $200m and supporting 600 local jobs, including 60 highly paid, high skilled aviation jobs.  

This Summer Ryanair is operating its biggest ever schedule at Bournemouth Airport with over 120 weekly flights spanning 20 routes, including 3 new routes to Agadir, Lanzarote, and Nantes, providing customers with unbeatable choice at the lowest fares when booking their Summer ’24 getaways.

Ryanair’s Head of Communications, Jade Kirwan said:

“We are delighted to celebrate over 10 million Ryanair passengers through Bournemouth Airport. This significant milestone showcases Ryanair’s continued growth and investment at Bournemouth, where Ryanair has operated since 1996. This summer, Ryanair is operating 120 weekly flights across 20 routes on our 2 Bournemouth based aircraft – an investment of $200m and supporting over 600 local jobs.

We look forward to carrying millions more passengers on Ryanair’s low-fare flights to/from Bournemouth over the years to come.”

RYANAIR JULY TRAFFIC GROWS 8% TO 20.2M

02 Aug 2024

FIRST MONTH TO CARRY OVER 20M GUESTS

            Ryanair Holdings plc today (Fri, 2 Aug) released July 2024 traffic stats as follows:

RYANAIR CELEBRATES 20 MILLION PASSENGERS AT CORK AIRPORT

01 Aug 2024

Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (1 August) celebrated over 20 million passengers through Cork Airport since it began operations to/from Cork in 1987. Ryanair has a proud history in regional Ireland and was the first low-cost airline to operate at Cork Airport and has grown from a single route to/from London Luton to a 33-route operation connecting 9 countries across Europe, underpinned by Ryanair’s 4 Cork based aircraft – an investment of $400 million and supporting over 120 highly paid aviation jobs and over 1,700 local jobs at Cork Airport.

This Summer Ryanair is operating its biggest ever schedule at Cork Airport with almost 300 weekly flights across 33 routes, including 5 new routes to Barcelona, Brussels, Paris, Rhodes and Zadar, providing customers with unbeatable choice at the lowest fares when booking their Summer ’24 getaways while driving invaluable inbound tourism for Cork at the same time.

Ryanair’s Head of Communications, Jade Kirwan said:

“We are proud to mark this milestone of over 20 million passengers through Cork Airport. This significant milestone resounds Ryanair’s continued growth and investment at Cork Airport – an investment of over $400m, as well as supporting over 120 highly paid aviation jobs and over 1,700 local jobs at Cork Airport.

This Summer we are operating our biggest ever schedule to/from Cork Airport with almost 300 weekly flights across 33 routes, including Ryanair’s 5 new summer sunshine routes to Barcelona, Brussels, Paris, Rhodes and Zadar. We look forward to carrying millions more passengers on Ryanair’s low-fare flights to/from Cork over the years to come.”

THE GREENS BLOW BILLIONS ON RAILWAYS AND RTE…BUT WON’T FIX DUBLIN AIRPORT TRAFFIC CAP

31 Jul 2024

Ryanair, Ireland’s No.1 airline, today (Wed 31 Jul) criticised Green Ministers Eamon Ryan and Catherine Martin, who has proposed to squander €billions of taxpayer funds for pie in the sky railway plans for the next 30 years, or, in Catherine Martin’s case to subsidise RTE up to €5m per week for the next 3 years, but neither will lift a finger to fix the 32m traffic cap at Dublin Airport, which is restricting traffic and tourism growth into Ireland.

Ryanair again called on these 2 useless Green Ministers to take action for Irish air transport and tourism. Multiple airlines at Dublin Airport are now forced to take legal action to do what Transport Minister Eamon Ryan should have done years ago, which was to scrap this absurd 2007 traffic cap, which is no longer valid since there is no road traffic access problems at Dublin Airport.

As always, these useless Green Ministers promise railway and RTE “jam” tomorrow instead of fixing air traffic problems today.

Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary said:

“Yet again these 2 useless Green Ministers prefer to promise “jam” tomorrow instead of fixing todays transport problems. Dublin is the worlds 2nd most congested traffic city, yet their solution is more empty bicycle lanes. Instead of scraping the outdated idiotic 2007 32m traffic cap at Dublin Airport, Eamon Ryan on his way out the door has found €35bn for pie in the sky railway plans for the next 30 years. Equally, Catherine Martin, who as Tourism Minister has done nothing about the Dublin Airport traffic cap and confirmed €5m a week of taxpayer funds to subsidise the inefficient and loss-making State broadcaster RTE.

Green Ministers don’t work. Green transport policies don’t work. Ireland is an island on the periphery of Europe, and the future of our economy depends on the growth of low cost air access and inbound tourism. It’s time these 2 Green Ministers stopped wasting €billions on pie in the sky railway plans, or subsiding the loss making national broadcaster, and instead scrap this outdated and no longer relevant 32m traffic cap at Dublin Airport to allow airlines like Ryanair and others, continue to grow air access and tourism to Ireland.

These 2 Green Ministers for Transport and Tourism have failed Irish aviation and tourism, and we now call on new Taoiseach Simon Harris to do what Eamon Ryan has failed to do for 4 years and abandon this idiotic, outdated, and damaging 32m traffic cap at Dublin Airport.”