5 BASED AIRCRAFT ($500M INVEST), 30 NEW JOBS, & 32 ROUTES

INCLUDING 3 NEW SUNNY HOTSPOT DESTINATIONS – CORFU, LANZAROTE & PAPHOS

Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (11 Apr) officially launched its summer ‘24 schedule for Liverpool with 32 routes, including 3 exciting new routes to sunny hotspots Corfu, Lanzarote and Paphos. 

To support this 11% Liverpool traffic growth, Ryanair will base 1 new B737 aircraft for Summer ‘24 (additional $100m investment) bringing Ryanair’s total Liverpool-based fleet to 5 aircraft and creating over 30 new high paid jobs for pilots and cabin crew.

Ryanair’s Liverpool Summer ‘24 schedule delivers:

• 3 new routes – Corfu, Lanzarote & Paphos. 
• 32 total routes
• 1 new B737 aircraft (5 total – $500m investment)
• Liverpool traffic to grow to 2.2m passengers p.a.
• Supporting 1,600 local jobs, incl. 150 high paid pilot, cabin crew & engineer jobs

Ryanair is the UK’s favourite airline operating over 615 routes (50+ new) and carrying almost 60 million passengers to/from the UK p.a. on its fleet of 118 UK-based aircraft ($12 bn investment), providing UK customers/visitors with competitive fares, increased connectivity, unbeatable choice and reliability, while driving year-round connectivity and inbound tourism which supports over 48,000 UK jobs.

To celebrate Ryanair’s Liverpool summer ‘24 schedule and its 3 new routes, the airline has launched a limited-time seat sale with fares from just £19.99 available to book now at ryanair.com.

Ryanair’s Head of Comms, Jade Kirwan said:

“Ryanair is pleased to officially launch our new summer ’24 schedule for Liverpool with 32 routes, including 3 exciting new routes to Corfu, Lanzarote and Paphos, with our first summer ’24 flights to these new sunny hotspot destinations taking off just last week.

Not only is our Liverpool summer ’24 schedule delivering more route choice at the lowest fares for your summer holidays but will see the creation of 30 new high paid jobs for pilots, cabin crew and engineers as we add another B73 aircraft at Liverpool ($100m investment) to support our 11% traffic growth this summer. The addition of this new aircraft brings Ryanair’s total Liverpool-based fleet to 5 aircraft, representing a $500m investment in Liverpool and supporting 1,600 local jobs.

Ryanair’s new Liverpool schedule, including these 3 exciting new Ryanair routes is available to book now at ryanair.com with fares from just £19.99 for a limited time only. We look forward to welcoming millions more passengers onboard our first flights to/from Liverpool throughout the summer months ahead.”

Paul Winfield, Aviation Director for LJLA commented:

“Liverpool has become the airport of choice for passengers from across the City Region, the wider North West and North Wales with our faster, easier, friendlier customer experience. Ryanair’s latest commitment to Liverpool bringing even greater choice of destinations, more departures and the additional based aircraft here, means that the region’s passengers now have even more opportunities to fly from here, whilst creating employment and benefits for the visitor economy too as we also welcome more visitors choosing to take advantage of Liverpool as a gateway to the region and beyond.”

Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (10 Apr) announced its biggest ever Bristol schedule for summer 24 with 36 routes, including 6 exciting new routes to Copenhagen, Fuerteventura, Marrakesh, Prague, Sofia, and Tirana.

Ryanair’s record Bristol summer 24 schedule is underpinned by the airline’s 5 based aircraft, representing a $500 million investment in Bristol, and supporting over 1,400 local jobs, including 150 high paid pilot, cabin crew & engineer jobs. Two of Ryanair’s Bristol-based aircraft are “Gamechangers” which are highly sought by airports throughout Europe as they reduce CO₂ emission by 16% and noise emissions by 40%.

Ryanair’s Bristol Summer ‘24 schedule delivers:

• 6 new routes – Copenhagen, Fuerteventura, Marrakesh, Prague, Sofia & Tirana
• 36 total routes
• 5 based aircraft (incl. 2 Gamechangers)
• $500m investment
• Growth to 2.1m passengers p.a.
• Support of 1,400 local jobs, incl. 150 high paid pilot, cabin crew & engineer jobs

Ryanair is the UK’s favourite airline operating over 615 routes (50+ new) and carrying almost 60 million passengers to/from the UK p.a. on its fleet of 118 UK-based aircraft ($12 bn investment), providing UK customers/visitors with competitive fares, increased connectivity, unbeatable choice and reliability, while driving year-round connectivity and inbound tourism which supports over 48,000 UK jobs.

To celebrate Ryanair’s Summer schedule at Bristol Airport and its 6 new summer 24 routes, the airline has launched a limited-time seat sale with fares from just £19.99 available to book now at ryanair.com.

Ryanair’s Head of Comms, Jade Kirwan, said:

“We’re delighted to officially launch Ryanair’s biggest ever schedule for Bristol this summer with 36 routes, including 6 exciting new routes to Copenhagen, Fuerteventura, Marrakesh, Prague, Sofia, and Tirana, offering our customers in the south-west even more choice at the lowest fares. Ryanair’s record Bristol summer 24 schedule will operate on a fleet of 5 Bristol-based aircraft (including 2 Gamechangers), representing a $500m investment and supporting over 1,400 local jobs.

Our first summer 24 flights to Copenhagen, Marrakesh, Sofia, and Tirana took off just last week, performing phenomenally well, and we look forward to carrying more passengers onboard our first flights to Fuerteventura and Prague when they commence this July.

Ryanair’s new Bristol schedule, including our 6 exciting new routes, is available to book now at ryanair.com with fares available from just £19.99 for a limited time only.”

Bristol Airport’s CEO, Dave Lees, said:

“We are delighted with Ryanair’s announcement increasing the 2024 flight programme to its largest ever schedule from Bristol Airport, it is a clear demonstration of confidence in the region for air travel. Expanding Ryanair’s route network and adding new routes including to Tirana, Albania, offers customers a wider choice of destinations and flexibility of stay lengths, without the need to travel to other airports for their flights.

We very much welcome the deployment of the more efficient ‘Gamechanger’ aircraft from Bristol Airport and look forward to working with Ryanair on developing their route network and ensuring the increased use of quieter aircraft and more environmentally efficient operations in the future.”

Following Ben Gurion International Airport’s decision to re-open low-cost Terminal 1, Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (4 Apr) announced that it will resume operations to/from Tel Aviv from Mon, 3^rd June. The airline will operate 40 flights per week to/from Athens, Bari, Berlin, Budapest, Malta, Milan and Paphos.  

Ryanair flights to/from Tel Aviv are available to book now at ryanair.com.

A Ryanair spokesperson said:

“It is great news that Ben Gurion Airport is re-opening Terminal 1, which has enabled Ryanair to resume our Tel Aviv operations from Mon, 3^rd June, with 40 weekly flights to/from key markets such as Cyprus, Germany, Greece, and Italy available to book now at ryanair.com.”

RYANAIR CALLS ON IASI AIRPORT TO REDUCE CHARGES TO SECURE GROWTH

Ryanair, Europe’s no.1 airline, today (4th April), announced that it has been forced to revise its growth plan for Iasi Airport for Summer’ 24, due to the airport’s decision to implement an ill-thought-out +25% charge increase. Ryanair has strongly invested in Iasi over the previous 12 months, transporting over 250,000 passengers to/from Iasi but unfortunately, as a result of the excessive charge increases, Ryanair will not grow in S24 with this growth instead being allocated to other airports in Romania, such as Cluj, and further afield such as Poland.

The key to securing growth is lower access costs. While airports all over Europe are reducing charges to secure valuable capacity, Iasi Airport is increasing charges by an excessive +25% which is particularly bizarre when the Airport has recently opened a new terminal aimed at significantly increasing the Airport’s capacity. These excessive charges make Iasi uncompetitive and mean the City and the Region will lose out on connectivity and passenger growth in the coming years – growth which is now more valuable than ever given the capacity reductions by competing airlines in Romania this Summer.

Ryanair calls on Iasi airport to reduce charges and make Iasi competitive again so airlines can deliver connectivity and passenger growth from as early as Winter ’24, which the City and its citizens urgently require.

Ryanair’s Head of Comms for Romania, Mauro Bolla said:

“Ryanair – Europe’s no.1 airline – announced that it has been forced to revise its growth plan for Iasi airport for Summer’ 24, due to the airport’s decision to implement an ill-thought-out +25% charge increase.

This sudden increase in airport charges is a non-sensical decision from Iasi Airport considering the airport’s recent inauguration of a new terminal, Wizz Air’s reduction in operations – with over 20 cancelled routes in Romania – and the concerted efforts of all EU and Romanian airports to attract Ryanair’s capacity. Romania’s inclusion in the Schengen area also promises enhanced connectivity and growth for air passengers, that Iasi Airport will fail to attract.

Ryanair calls on Iasi Airport to urgently reduce charges to ensure there is increased growth and connectivity in the coming Winter, which would significantly bolster the region’s economy.”

DI PALMA AGAIN MAKES FALSE CLAIMS ABOUT “OLIGOPOLY” IN ITALY AND AN ABSENCE OF LOW FARES WHEN RYANAIR SELLS 12M SEATS IN S24 AT FARES OF €29.99 OR LESS

Ryanair, Italy’s No.1 airline, today (2^nd Apr) calls on ENAC President Pierluigi Di Palma to step down as President of ENAC following his latest false claims that there is an “oligopoly” in Italy or that “low cost airlines no longer exist” or even more absurdly that low fares “will never be there again”.

Mr Di Palma’s latest embarrassing statements come less than 12 months after he made more false claims about airlines in Italy “working together” to raise air fares, false claims about non-existent €1,000 air tickets, and false claims about non-existent algorithms that airlines were using to work out which mobile phones passengers were using.

Mr Di Palma clearly has no idea what an oligopoly is. Ryanair has sent him a book “Economics for Dummies” so he can learn that an oligopoly is a market where a small number of suppliers work together to constrain supply and raise prices. In the Italian market, Ryanair, which has less than 40% market share (not 51% as Di Palma wrongly claims), is growing its seat capacity by 10% in 2024, and lowering air fares for millions of Italian consumers.

Ryanair’s CEO Michael O’Leary said:  

“Contrary to Mr Di Palma’s latest false claims, Ryanair will offer over 29m seats to/from and within Italy in its Summer 2024 schedule. Just over 12m of these seats (over 40%) are being sold at prices of €29.99 one-way or less. Over 15m seats (over 50%) are on sale at fares of €39.99 or less. Mr Di Palma repeatedly makes false claims, which mislead the Italian Govt and citizens about the air travel market in Italy. He is clueless about air transport, which is why he continues to make these stupid and embarrassing claims. Perhaps he should learn economics, and then stop making false claims about a non-existent “oligopoly” in Italy when Ryanair continues to increase seat supply and lower air fares.

Ryanair has written again to Mr Di Palma calling on him to step down and asking him to correct his latest false claims that low fare airlines “no longer exist” in Italy. He should step aside and let somebody competent (who actually understands economics) Chair ENAC. In the meantime, we have sent Mr Di Palma a textbook “Economics for Dummies” so that he can inform himself to what an oligopoly actually looks like. While Mr Di Palma claims he can’t find a low fare Ryanair flight in Italy, more than 12 million Italian consumers will in Summer 2024 snap up Ryanair fares of €29.99 or less. Thanks to intense competition, Ryanair continues to grow capacity in Italy and continues to offer low fares to millions of Italian citizens and visitors while Mr Di Palma continues to embarrass himself and ENAC with his idiotic and false claims.”

5 ROUTES, 30 WEEKLY FLIGHT & SUPPORTING OVER 230 JOBS

Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline today (28 Mar) launched its biggest ever Summer S24 schedule for Cluj-Napoca with 5 routes to the amazing destinations Brussels, Dublin, London, Milan and Paris. As part of this S24 schedule, Ryanair will deliver 285k passengers (+40% growth) to/from Cluj-Napoca on 30 weekly flights, boosting local economy and supporting over 230 jobs.

Ryanair’s Cluj-NapocaS24 schedule will deliver:

• 5 routes – Brussels Charleroi, Dublin, London Stansted, Milan Bergamo, Paris Beauvais
• 285k passengers (+40% vs. S23)
• Supp. over 230 jobs

As Ryanair marks its fifth year of operations in Cluj-Napoca, its commitment to expand in the region remains. While Ryanair confirms to be the most reliable and fast-growing airline in Romania and in Europe, Wizz Air continues to shrink, cutting both aircraft and routes across Europe alongside the 20+ routes have been cancelled to/from Romania this Summer.

As of 31st March 2024, Romania will effectively be part of the Schengen area, allowing air passengers an easier access between Schengen member states, totalling 420+ million citizens. To celebrate this significant milestone that will benefit Romania’s air passengers, Ryanair has launched a 3-day seat sale with fares from just €24.99 available from today for booking only at ryanair.com.

Mauro Bola, Head of Comms for Italy & Eastern Mediterranean Ryanair:

“As Europe’s No.1 airline, Ryanair is pleased to celebrate its S24 schedule for Cluj-Napoca with 5 routes, connecting the region to amazing destinations like Brussels, Dublin, London, Milan and Paris. As part of Ryanair’s S24 schedule, we will deliver over 285k passengers (+40% growth) to/from Cluj-Napoca on 30 weekly flights, boosting local economy and supporting over 230 jobs.

Our commitment to Cluj-Napoca airport and the region is evident, while Wizz Air continues to shrink its European operations, cutting both aircraft and routes across Europe alongside the 20+ routes that have been cancelled to/from Romania this Summer.To celebrate the significant milestone of Romania joining the Schengen area, a move that will benefit Romania’s air passengers, Ryanair has launched a 3-day seat sale with fares from just €24.99 available from today for booking only at ryanair.com.”

Mr. David Ciceo, CEO, Cluj International Airport declared:

 “We welcome the announcement of increased frequencies and passenger numbers by Ryanair for the destinations operated in S24 from Cluj International Airport and we strongly value their committment. This expansion not only reflects Ryanair’s confidence in Cluj International Airport but also emphasizes the growing demand for air travel in our region.

We are thrilled to strengthen our partnership with Ryanair and enhance connectivity for our passengers. These increased frequencies will provide more options and flexibility for travellers, whether they are flying for business or leisure purposes.

At Cluj International Airport, we are committed to continuously improve our services and facilities to meet the evolving needs of our passengers. We will continue to work closely with Ryanair to further expand our route network and elevate the overall travel experience for everyone who chooses to fly from Cluj.”