Ryanair Holdings plc today (3 Mar) released February traffic statistics as follows:

	2019	2020      (LF)	Growth
Ryanair Group	9.6m	10.5m     (96%)	+9%
Ryanair	9.3m	10.0m     (96%)	+8%
Lauda	0.3m	0.5m     (94%)	+67%

                                                                                   

Rolling Annual

142.2m

153.8m    (96%)

+8%

 

• Ryanair operated over 58,000 scheduled flights in February.

Since Ryanair has cancelled up to 25% of its Italian short haul program (mainly to/from and within Italy) for the 3-week period from 17^th Mar to 8^th Apr, traffic and load factor in the months of Mar & Apr is likely to be lower than normal due to the fall in bookings during that period in response to the Covid-19 virus outbreak in a number of European countries.

All Affected Passengers Contacted By Email Today

Ryanair today (Mon 2 Mar) notified passengers that it was reducing its short haul flight program (mainly to and from Italy) by up to 25% for a 3 week period from Tues 17^th Mar to Wed 8^th Apr, in response to the Covid-19 Virus. Over the past week, Ryanair has seen a significant drop in bookings over that late March/early April period, in response to the Covid-19 Virus. There has also been a significant step up in passenger no-shows on flights, particularly from and within Italy.

Ryanair does not expect these cancellations to have a material impact on current year (end Mar 2020) guidance, but it is far too early to speculate what impact the Covid-19 outbreak will have on FY21 earnings. Ryanair will continue to monitor bookings carefully, and will continue to flex its schedules in response to this developing situation. Ryanair is working closely with relevant authorities and is following all guidelines provided by WHO and EASA to ensure the health and wellbeing of our people and our customers.

A daily Covid-19 action meeting across all areas of the airline has been initiated since Mon 24^th Feb, and is focusing on maintaining operational efficiency and cost saving to address the current downturn in business caused by the Covid-19 Virus, including;

• Rolling schedule cuts as booking patterns alter
• Allocating annual leave and/or unpaid leave to pilots and cabin crew
• Recruitment, and promotion and pay freezes across the network
• Working with 3^rd party suppliers to cut costs.

Ryanair remains one of the strongest airlines in the industry with €4bn in cash on its balance sheet, industry leading unit costs, 90% of the fleet is owned, and is mainly debt free. We expect that this Covid-19 Virus will result in further EU airline failures over the coming weeks.

Ryanair Group CEO, Michael O’Leary said:

“Our focus at this time is on minimising any risk to our people and our passengers. While we are heavily booked over the next two weeks, there has been a notable drop in forward bookings towards the end of Mar, into early Apr. It makes sense to selectively prune our schedule to and from those airports where travel has been most affected by the Covid-19 outbreak.

This is a time for calm. We will make sensible cuts to our schedules over the comings weeks to reflect weaker bookings, and changing travel patterns. All affected customers will be advised of any schedule changes at least 14 days in advance. While 80% of people who contract Covid-19 suffer only mild symptoms, the risk of infection can be significantly reduced by frequent hand washing with soap and water.

We will continue to comply fully with guidelines from National Governments, the WHO and EASA as they are updated on a regular basis. We will update the market in due course on any significant developments”

Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (19 Feb) officially launched its major training partnership with Aviomar Flight Academy to deliver a Ryanair mentored programme in Rome. This partnership will ensure Ryanair continues to attract highly trained professional pilots to support its growth across Europe.

The programme, which commenced in October 2019, gives trainee pilots a structured path to achieve an exceptional training course and reach a standard where they are ready to join the Ryanair Boeing 737 Type Rating programme.

Pilots on the programme will be trained by Aviomar Flight Academy instructors, using Ryanair procedures, as they take their first steps towards becoming Ryanair pilots. Over the course of the next 4/5 years, up to 400 new pilots from across Europe will be recruited and trained by Aviomar Flight Academy, underlining its respected position in the pilot training market. Newly trained pilots who commence their ab-initio training now will start their careers with Ryanair from early 2022.

Ryanair offers unparalleled career opportunities for new pilots, with:

• 82 bases
• Industry leading training standards and success rates
• The best rosters in European aviation – 5 days on, followed by 4 days off
• Outstanding earnings potential
• Fastest time to command upgrade (3 to 4 years)
• Structured command upgrade programme

 

Ryanair’s Director of Operations, Neal McMahon said:

“Ryanair is pleased to announce this training partnership with Aviomar Flight Academy, which has an impressive track record in training top-class pilots to the highest standards. This new training programme is Ryanair’s only mentored pilot programme in Southern Europe, and this partnership highlights our commitment to supporting, developing and recruiting pilots for current and future positions. With hundreds of daily Ryanair flights into Italy, we expect students from across Europe to avail of Ryanair’s low fares and enrol in Aviomar Flight Academy’s Ryanair Mentored pilot training programme.”

Ryanair’s Head of Crew Training, Senan O’Shea said:

“This new Ryanair-Aviomar Flight Academy programme will provide the airline with a steady pipeline of talented and professional pilots from around Europe to meet the needs of our growing network. Trainee pilots can look forward to unmatched opportunities flying with the world’s number one international airline.

After careful consideration, we have chosen Aviomar Flight Academy as our Italy based pilot training partner due to their continuous high standards in initial flight training and APS MCC. We are pleased to lend our operational expertise to Aviomar Flight Academy, especially in the provision of what will be an outstanding Ryanair Mentored Programme. This combination will be the best possible preparation for an airline career with Ryanair.”

Ryanair’s Pilot Recruitment Coordinator, Angelo Currao said:

“With innovative industry partnerships and our unrivalled in-house pilot training, Ryanair is well positioned to meet pilot recruitment and training targets and grow its aircraft fleet to 585 by financial year 2025. Ryanair is delighted to welcome Aviomar Flight Academy as our first pilot training partner in Italy.”

 

Aviomar Flight Academy’s General Manager Michele Marano said:

“Aviomar Flight Academy is proud to be Ryanair’s first training partner in Italy for both integrated and modular students. Future pilots will also be able to complete an industry leading APS MCC on a state of the art B737 fixed base Simulator. Aviomar Flight Academy was the first Approved Training Organisation to launch APS MCC in Italy and this exciting new partnership with Ryanair further endorses the value-add attributed by airlines to this training.

Both Aviomar and Ryanair have a proud history in aviation, and we are excited to be partners in the next chapter in their ongoing success story. This is a unique and outstanding opportunity for our gradautes to become commercial airline pilots for the fastest growing airline in Europe. Ryanair has an industry leading training department with an unrivalled safety record and we are proud to be associated with them. This is a new approach to pilot training and one that we welcome enthusiastically.”

For more information on the course, please email info@aviomar.org.                         

Ryanair, Europe’s greenest major airline, today (19 Feb) announced that it will invite customers to double their voluntary carbon offset contribution from €1 to €2 from 1^st April onwards. This modest increase forms part of Ryanair’s continuing sustainability campaign, which includes an investment worth over $20bn in new aircraft technology that will carry 4% more passengers, but with 16% lower fuel consumption and 40% lower noise emissions.

 

Currently more than 3% of Ryanair customers are participating in this voluntary carbon offset scheme. 100% of these funds go to supporting Ryanair’s environmental carbon offset projects. Over the last year, this has funded more than €500,000 worth of woodfire stoves in Uganda, and over €250,000 towards a reforestation project in the Monchique region of Southern Portugal, which was devastated by forest fires in 2018. With increased funds from this growing successful voluntary contribution scheme, Ryanair will aim to provide more funding to more partners in 2020.

 

Ryanair already has the lowest emissions of any major EU airline with just 66 grams of CO₂  per passenger kilometre. Passengers switching to Ryanair can reduce their CO₂ emissions by up to 50% compared to other legacy EU airlines. In December, Ryanair appointed its first Director of Sustainability to focus on, and deliver, the Groups ambitious sustainability program.

 

Director of Sustainability Tom Fowler said:

 

“We are pleased with the very positive response from our customers in 2019 to our voluntary Carbon Offset initiative. In addition to paying over €600m in environmental taxes last year, Ryanair has contributed over €1.5m towards carbon offset projects in Europe and Africa – and we are committed to doing more.

 

Our investments in new aircraft technology will enable us to carry more passengers, but with much lower fuel consumption and lower noise emissions. We are 60% of the way to being plastic free on board by 2024, and our customers are now contributing more than €1.5m p.a. towards carbon offset projects. We thank them sincerely for their support for our ambitious sustainability program.

 

100% of the funds raised through these voluntary carbon offset donations will be routed to our environmental partners, who are actively working on carbon offset and carbon reduction programs. With this modest increase in voluntary contributions, we can do more in 2020 and we look forward to unveiling more 2020 environmental partners in the coming months.”

Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (13 Feb), launched rescue fares starting from €19.99 on 7 routes to accommodate customers affected by Wizz Air’s suspension of all routes to/from Odesa until June 2020, and cancellation of London Luton routes to Prague and Oslo Torp from May 2020.

 

Ryanair customers can fly on the lowest fares with the most reliable service, and with the greenest/cleanest major airline in Europe, with the lowest CO2 emissions.

 

These low rescue fares are on sale now on the Ryanair.com website, for travel from April/May but must be booked by midnight Sunday (16 Feb).

 

Route	Frequency (per week)	For Travel from	Fares From
London Stansted – Oslo Torp	19	May	£21.99
London Stansted – Prague	19	May	£21.99
Odesa – Budapest	2	April	€19.99
Odesa – Katowice	3	April	€23.99
Odesa – Gdansk	2	April	€19.99
Odesa – Wroclaw	2	April	€19.99
Odesa – Berlin Schönefeld	2	April	€27.99

 

Ryanair’s Olga Pawlonka said:

           

“Ryanair customers can continue to enjoy the lowest fares and most reliable service, and we’ve released rescue fares to assist customers affected by the suspension of Wizz Air’s Odesa routes and the cancellation of its London Luton routes to Prague and Oslo.

 

Customers can fly at fares starting from just €19.99 from April/May, and these rescue fares are on sale now until midnight Sunday (16 Feb), only on the Ryanair.com website. Since these amazing low fares will be snapped up quickly, customers should log onto www.ryanair.com and avoid missing out.”.”

Ryanair today (6 Feb) released its January CO₂ emissions statistics, which show an ave. of 69g CO₂ per passenger/km.

 

	January 2020
Total Kilometres	13,475m km
Total Passengers	10.8m
Total CO2 Emissions	935kt
CO2 Per Pax/km	69g

 

 

Ryanair’s Kenny Jacobs said:

 

 “With the youngest fleet and highest load factors, Ryanair is Europe’s greenest/cleanest major airline. Our CO₂ per passenger/km is the lowest in the industry, having been cut from 82g to 66g over the last decade while other high fare competitors currently generate over 120g per pax/km.

 

The single most important thing any consumer can do to reduce their carbon footprint is switch to Ryanair. We are pleased to announce that our CO₂ per pax/km for January was 69g, half the rate of other flag carrier European airlines, and we are committed to reducing this by a further 10% to under 60g per pax/km by 2030.”

89% Of Customers Rate Ryanair Excellent/Very/Good

Ryanair today (5 Feb) released its January customer service statistics, which show that:

 

• 93% of January flights arrived on-time (up from 89% January 2019) excl. ATC delays
• ATC staff shortages delayed 1,975 Ryanair flights in January (3%)

 

Ryanair also released its January ‘Rate My Flight’ customer experience scores, which show 89% of over 104,000 respondents rated their flight ‘Excellent/Very Good/Good’, with high ratings for crew friendliness (93%), onboard service (91%), range of food & drink (85%), and boarding (85%).

 

Rate My Flight	Excell/V Good/Good
Customer Experience	89%
Crew Friendliness	93%
Onboard Service	91%
Food & Drink Range	85%
Boarding	85%

 

Ryanair’s Kenny Jacobs said:

 

“Ryanair Group Airlines carried over 10.8m customers in January with over 93% of our 62,000 flights arriving on-time excl. ATC delays. While these ATC delays improved significantly in January, there is still a needless impact on our punctuality – with France, Germany and Portugal as the worst affected countries. However, our industry-leading performance continues with improved year-on-year punctuality.

 

We’re satisfied that 89% of customers surveyed (over 104,000) rated their Ryanair flight in January as ‘Excellent/Very Good /Good’ using Ryanair’s Rate My Flight feature, which allows all customers to provide real-time reviews of their flights via the Ryanair app and email. We welcome this feedback, which encourages us to continuously improve our customer service.”