Ryanair Holdings plc today (2 Oct) released September traffic statistics as follows:
| 2019 | 2020 | Growth | |
| Ryanair Group | 14.1m | 5.1m | -64% |
| Rolling Annual | 150.3m | 79.9m (88% LF) | -47% |
Ryanair operated approx. 53% of our normal September schedule with a 71% load factor.
Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (29 Sept) announced a new London Stansted route to Oradea (Romania), with a twice weekly service commencing in December 2020, as part of Ryanair’s London Stansted Winter 2020 and Summer 2021 schedules.
British consumers and visitors can now book a getaway to Oradea as far out as October 2021, flying on the lowest fares and with a new set of health measures that Ryanair has rolled out to protect its customers and crew.
To celebrate, Ryanair has launched a seat sale with fares available from just £14.99, for travel until the end of January, which must be booked by midnight Thursday (1 Oct), only on the Ryanair.com website.
Ryanair’s Director of Commercial Jason Mc Guinness said:
“Ryanair is pleased to launch a new London Stansted route to Oradea (Romania), commencing in December, which will operate twice weekly as part of our London Stansted Winter 2020 and Summer 2021 schedules. Customers in London can now book flights to Oradea as far out as October 2021.
To celebrate this new Oradea route, we are launching a seat sale with fares available from just £14.99, for travel until the end of January 2021, which must be booked by midnight Thursday (1 Oct). Since these amazing low fares will be snapped up quickly, customers should log onto www.ryanair.com and avoid missing out.”
Take Your Friend On A Break For Free!
Ryanair, Europe’s No. 1 airline, is today (Thurs, 24th Sept) and for the first time in Ryanair history launching a ‘Buy One Get One Free’ offer on 1,600 routes across its network, for travel from 25th Sept until 14th Dec 2020. This autumn Ryanair is offering you, your close friends and family members the deal of all deals – flights for free!
This amazing offer applies to Value Fare bookings with more than one passenger, travelling on selected routes to top destinations (T&Cs apply). Customers only have until midnight tonight (24th Sept) to avail of this deal and must be quick visiting the Ryanair.com website to avail of these limited flights. Who doesn’t love a freebie?
Ryanair’s Head of Communications, Alejandra Ruiz, said:
“For the first time in Ryanair history, we have a “Buy One Get One Free” offer landing. Anyone would be crazy to miss it! Book today for travel from 25th Sept until 14th Dec 2020 across 1,600 routes and get a second ticket on the same flight for free.
Customers can book this unmissable deal to top holiday and city break destinations across Europe, bringing their family or close friends on a well-needed autumn/winter escape. To avail of these special offer customers must be quick and visit the Ryanair.com website to book their flights before midnight, tonight 24th September.”
32 ROUTEs (2 NEW), 2 based aircraft, $200m investment
Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (23 Sept) announced it will open a new base at Paris Beauvais, from 3rd December 2020, with 2 based aircraft (an investment of $200m) and 32 routes (2 new to/from Paphos and Manchester) connecting Paris to 13 countries across Europe.
Ryanair’s new Paris Beauvais base will deliver:
Paris consumers and visitors can now book a getaway as far out as October 2021, flying on the lowest fares ever to business and leisure destinations including Barcelona, Milan, Faro or Thessaloniki. To celebrate its new base, Ryanair has launched a seat sale with fares available from just €9.99, for travel in October & November, which must be booked by midnight Friday (25 Sept) only on the Ryanair.com website.
Ryanair’s Director of Commercial, Jason McGuinness said:
“We are delighted to announce a $200 million investment at Ryanair’s fourth French base in Paris Beauvais Airport. This development will create over 2,300 direct and indirect jobs at a time when other airlines, including Air France retrench and reduce capacity and investment, despite receiving €7bn in discriminatory State Aid.
We are also pleased to announce the launch of our Paris Beauvais winter schedule, with 32 routes in total, including two new services to Paphos & Manchester (both twice weekly) and connections to exciting business and leisure destinations such as Barcelona, Milan, Faro and Thessaloniki.
We are delighted to conclude this long term investment with Paris Beauvais, who continue to work to deliver efficient operations and competitive airport charges, which offers the means for traffic growth and new routes at Ryanair’s fourth French base.
To celebrate, we are releasing seats for sale from €9.99 for travel in October & November, available until midnight on Friday (25 Sept). Since these amazing low fares will be snapped up quickly, customers should log onto www.ryanair.com to avoid missing out.”
François Rubichon, Paris Beauvais Airport’s Chairman of the board, said:
“Paris-Beauvais airport is delighted for this achievement and to see such a mark of confidence from our first airline partner, the leading European carrier, Ryanair.
Our historic relationship has been strengthened and is now evolving to a new dimension with this operational base, its jobs and the potential developments it will allow, especially in such challenging times for air transport.
Finally, Paris-Beauvais airport is the first base announced by Ryanair in Europe since the beginning of the crisis and materializes the hard work carried out for several months between SAGEB and Ryanair teams. All the employees and partners are looking forward to welcome the first 2 aircraft and its crews on the 3rd December 2020″.
Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (23 Sept) announced it will extend the waiving of its flight change fee for all customers who book to travel in October and November 2020, giving them peace of mind and greater flexibly if their travel plans change.
Customers who book for travel in October and November will be able to change their flights with zero change fee to travel until the 21st March 2021. Changes must be made at least 7 days prior to the departure date of the original booking.
Ryanair’s Director of Marketing & Digital, Dara Brady said:
“In order to provide as much flexibility and confidence as possible for our customers this autumn, we have extended the waiving of our flight change fee to October and November bookings. Customers can now plan a well-deserved break knowing that if their plans change they can move their flights to any new date up to March 21st 2021 without additional fees”.
Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (22 Sept) announced a new Leeds route to Vilnius, flying 3 times per week from 26th October 2020 as part of Ryanair’s British Winter 2020 schedule.
British consumers and visitors can now book a winter getaway to Vilnius as far out as March 2021, flying on the lowest fares and with a new set of health measures that Ryanair has rolled out to protect its customers and crew.
To celebrate, Ryanair has launched a seat sale with fares available from just £19.99, for travel from 26th October until December 2020, which must be booked by midnight Thursday (24th September), only on the Ryanair.com website.
Ryanair’s Director of Commercial Jason McGuinness said:
“Ryanair is pleased to launch a new Leeds route to Vilnius, from 26th October 2020, which will operate 3 times every week as part of our British Winter 2020 schedule. Customers in Leeds can now book flights to Vilnius as far out as March 2021.”
To celebrate this new route, we are launching a seat sale with fares available from just £19.99, for travel from now until December 2020, which must be booked by midnight Thursday (24th September). Since these amazing low fares will be snapped up quickly, customers should log onto www.ryanair.com and avoid missing out.”
Calls On Transport Minister Ryan To Finally Take Action
Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline, today (Fri 18th Sept) 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 Oct capacity to fall from 50% to approx. 40% of its Oct 2019 levels, but expects to maintain a 70%+ load factor at this reduced schedule.
Ryanair 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, which undermine consumers’ willingness to make forward bookings. 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.
Ryanair welcomes the EU Commission’s plan to remove intra-EU travel restrictions, subject only to the ECDC weekly update on Covid case / positive test trend rates by EU country and region, and calls for this coordinated approach to be immediately implemented by all EU States, especially Ireland, so that EU citizens can make essential bookings for business and family travel, free from the worry of flight cancellations and/or defective quarantine restrictions.
A Ryanair Spokesperson said:
“We are disappointed to reduce our Oct capacity from 50% of 2019 to 40%. However, as customer confidence is damaged by Government mismanagement of Covid travel policies, many Ryanair customers are unable to travel for business or urgent family reasons without being subjected to defective 14 day quarantines.
While it is too early yet to make final decisions on our winter schedule (from Nov to Mar), if current trends and EU Governments’ mismanagement of the return of air travel and normal economic activity continue, then similar capacity cuts may be required across the winter period.
We call on Transport Minister Eamon Ryan to explain why over 2 months later he still hasn’t implemented any of the 14 recommendations of the Governments Aviation Task Force which were submitted to Government on 7 July last. He should also explain why NPHET has kept Ireland locked up like North Korea since 1 July, while at the same time Italy and Germany removed all intra-EU travel restrictions and have delivered Covid case rates which are less than half the rate, which NPHET has presided over in Ireland. Intra EU air travel is not the problem and these defective travel bans are not a solution.”