Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (Tues, 26 Aug) announced a landmark partnership agreement with Booking Holdings, which includes global travel brands Booking.com, KAYAK, Priceline, and Agoda.

This partnership means that customers booking with Booking Holdings’ brands will now have access to Ryanair flights across the airline’s network of 235+ destinations, with full price transparency of Ryanair products. This deal will also ensure that customers who book Ryanair flights through Booking.com, KAYAK, Priceline and Agoda will have access to their myRyanair account without needing to complete Ryanair’s customer verification, which ensures they will receive essential flight updates directly.

This is great news for travellers across Europe as Booking Holdings joins Ryanair’s extensive list of “Approved OTA” partners, including loveholidays, lastminute, Travelfusion, Paxport, Kiwi, On the Beach, TUI, El Corte Ingles, and Expedia, as the airline continues to demonstrate how OTAs and Ryanair can work together to protect customers and offer them more choice at lower fares.

Ryanair CMO, Dara Brady said: 

“This new partnership with Booking Holdings is welcome news for all customers who book or compare prices through Booking.com, KAYAK, Priceline, and Agoda, where they will be assured of full price transparency and receive all essential travel updates from Ryanair directly to their phone. This partnership shows how “Approved OTAs” and Ryanair can work together to protect and benefit consumers, giving them more choice at lower fares.”

Booking Holdings SVP Corporate Development, Todd Henrich said:

“We are pleased to partner with Ryanair to continue giving travellers greater choice and value when booking their journeys across our platforms. In bringing together access to Ryanair’s low-fare flights and network of more than 235 destinations with the innovative, intuitive technology, ease and flexibility offered by our brands, this partnership builds on our commitment to provide a trusted, seamless booking experience to customers all over the world.”

Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (Fri, 22 Aug) called on EU Commission President, Ursula von “Derlayed-Again”, to urgently reform Europe’s broken ATC system and ensure the protection of overflights, after 99 flights were delayed, disrupting 17,800 EU passengers, during the first two days (20-21 Aug) of Belgrade ATC’s 40-day strike.

Earlier this week, Belgrade ATC announced a 40-day strike, starting from Wed, 20 Aug. In addition to flights to/from Serbia being delayed, this strike will also disrupt overflights. This is because Serbia’s minimum service laws do not protect overflights during national ATC strikes, unlike in other countries such as Italy, Spain, and Greece. As a result, even though it’s Belgrade ATC that are striking, most disrupted passengers are not even flying to/from Serbia but just overflying Serbian airspace en route to their destination (e.g., Poland – Greece, UK – Turkey, etc.).

This is completely unfair and highlights the need to protect EU passenger flights from being unnecessarily disrupted by national ATC strikes, just because they happen to cross that airspace. Ryanair calls on Ursula von “Derlayed-Again” to take urgent action to protect overflights during national ATC strikes.

Ryanair’s Director of Communications, Jade Kirwan, said:

“It is unacceptable that EU passengers not even flying to/from Serbia but are simply overflying Serbian airspace en route to their destination are being forced to suffer unnecessary disruption as a result of Serbian ATC strikes. This is because Serbia do not protect overflights during national ATC strikes, like they do in Italy, Spain, and Greece. It makes no sense and is abundantly unfair on EU passengers and families going on holidays that just happen to pass through Serbian airspace en route to their destination.

Ryanair calls on Ursula von “Derlayed-Again” to take urgent action to protect EU passenger overflights during national ATC strikes, and protect EU passengers from repeated and avoidable ATC disruptions.“

Ryanair, Albania’s fastest growing airline today (Thurs, 14 Aug) announced it would open a new – 3 aircraft – base at Tirana Airport from April 2026, basing 3 new B737-800 aircraft – a $300m invest. – supporting over 3,000 jobs, incl. 100 new high-paid jobs for pilots and cabin crew.

Ryanair’s new Tirana base will expand its market share in Albania, with over 450 weekly flights on 33 routes for S26, including 10 exciting new routes to Birmingham, Dublin, Milan, Malta, Naples, Pescara, Poznan, Trieste, Turin, and Verona, as well as increased frequencies on 9 existing routes such as Bari, London, Prague, Stockholm, and Warsaw.

Ryanair’s new Tirana S26 base will deliver:

• 3 based a/c – $300M invest.
• 10 new routes to Birmingham, Dublin, Milan, Malta, Naples, Pescara, Poznan, Trieste, Turin, and Verona
• 33 total routes across 13 countries
• Traffic grows to 4m pax p.a.
• Supp. over 3,000 jobs in Albania

Over the next 5 years, Ryanair will continue to invest in Albania, incl. up to 6 based aircraft ($600m invest.), growing to over 5m passengers p.a., opening over 20 new routes, supporting over 4,000 jobs by 2030, provided always that Albania maintains its policy of low access costs and zero aviation taxes to continue stimulating traffic and tourism growth while increasing investment, and jobs.

To celebrate this new S26 – 3 aircraft – Tirana base, Ryanair has announced a 3-day seat sale, with fares starting from just €24,99 for travel in Oct/Nov, available exclusively at ryanair.com.

Ryanair’s CEO Michael O’Leary said:

“As Albania’s only truly low fares airline, Ryanair is pleased to announce this new S26 – 3 aircraft – Tirana base. Since launching our first Albania flights in Nov 2023, Ryanair has worked closely with our partners in Tirana Airport to deliver ambitious growth, which will now see Ryanair’s traffic grow to over 4m passengers in 2026, with 3 new B737-800 aircraft ($300m invest.) based at Tirana, supporting over 3,000 local jobs, and operating 33 routes, incl. 10 new routes to Birmingham, Dublin, Milan, Malta, Naples, Pescara, Poznan, Trieste, Turin and Verona.

Ryanair’s continued growth at Tirana, offers Albania a massive opportunity  to grow its air traffic, tourism & jobs as Ryanair plans to grow to 5m passengers p.a. and base up to 6 a/c at Tirana in a $600m investment which adds over 20 new routes by 2030, provided of course that Albania maintains its current low access costs and zero aviation taxes which stimulates rapid growth in traffic, tourism, investment, and jobs.”

Tirana Airport’s Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Piervittorio Farabbi said:

“Upon starting the operations in Albania back in November 2023, the Ryanair team came with a slogan of ‘Low Fares Revolution’ in Albania. Today, we mark a pivotal moment in this revolution announcing the opening of a base in Tirana. Starting next summer season, there will be much more opportunities to explore the world from Tirana and to expose touristic Albania to more countries. Such decision from a partner airline, can only come as a result of a bold commitment on our side to offer operational excellence. We have heavily invested to expand operational capacities both landside and airside with an extended runway, additional parking stands, renovated apron and taxiways and expanded terminal tripled in size. Passenger processing needs to be fast and reliable; that’s why we invested in advanced digitalization in check in, boarding and passport control. We are proud to be among the fastest airports that are transformed from operations to a base within only 30 months.”

Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, and the Erasmus Student Network (ESN) today (Wed, 13 Aug) announced that they will extend their long-standing partnership for 2026, marking the 9^th year of supporting European students with super low fares so that they can travel during their educational exchange.

Through this exclusive partnership, registered ESN students can access a dedicated Erasmus booking platform on the Ryanair.com website, where they can avail of a 10% discount on four one-way flights (or 2 round-trips) and a free 20kg checked-in bag with every flight booked.

With the 2025-2026 academic year starting soon, ESN students can now book their low fare Ryanair flights across the airlines industry-leading network of 235+ destinations with these exclusive ESN travel discounts through the dedicated platform at Ryanair.com.  

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

“Ryanair is pleased to announce the extension of our exclusive partnership with the Erasmus Student Network (ESN) for the 2025-2026 academic year, further supporting student mobility by offering registered ESN students across Europe a range of exclusive flight offers, including generous discounts and free baggage options. As Ryanair continues to grow and invest in Europe, we are delighted to support the EU flagship Erasmus programme and the incredible opportunities offered to their student members.”

ESN’s Treasurer, Rui Vinha, said:

“This is another year of commitment from ESN and Ryanair to provide easier and affordable travels for students to their mobility destinations.”

Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (Wed, 13 Aug) welcomed the Edinburgh Sheriff Court’s decision to convict an unruly passenger who disrupted flight RK5593 from Edinburgh to Lanzarote on 5 July 2024 shortly after take-off by smoking, consuming his own alcohol, and verbally abusing other passengers onboard. This passenger was one of three disruptive passengers whose inexcusable behaviour forced this flight to turnback to Edinburgh, causing 6 crew and 178 passengers – many of whom were travelling on holiday with young family – to suffer unnecessary disruption.

The Edinburgh Sheriff Court issued this passenger with a Community Payback Order and sentenced him to 225 hours of community service.

Ryanair is committed to ensuring that all passengers and crew travel in a comfortable and stress-free environment free of unnecessary disruption caused by a tiny number of unruly passengers. Ryanair has a strict zero tolerance policy towards passenger misconduct and will continue to take action to combat unruly passenger behaviour on aircraft for the benefit of the vast majority of passengers who do not disrupt flights.

A Ryanair spokesperson said:

“We welcome the Community Payback Order of 225 hours community service issued to this passenger by the Edinburgh Sheriff Court, which demonstrates just one of the many consequences that passengers who disrupt flights will face as part of Ryanair’s zero tolerance policy, and we hope this action will further deter disruptive behaviour on flights so that passengers and crew can travel in a comfortable and respectful environment.”

Ryanair today (Tue, 12 Aug) released its August OTA Survey, which exposes OTAs, eDreams, Tix, Vola & Latamy, for overcharging customers up to 148% over Ryanair’s website prices. These OTAs, none of whom have distribution agreements with Ryanair continue to inflate prices with eDreams being the biggest overcharger, charging €15.01 for a reserved seat that costs just €6.05 on Ryanair.com – an overcharge of 148%.

Ryanair continues to campaign to protect consumers from harmful practices and significant overcharging by OTAs such as Vola, Tix, Latamy, and eDreams. Ryanair continues to urge EU Govts, Consumer Ministers, and Protection Authorities to take action, calling for mandatory transparency in OTA pricing, in line with the transparent price standards upheld by Ryanair’s “Approved OTA” partners. Yet many of Europe’s Consumer Agencies and Ministers continue to ignore this consumer harm by these overcharging OTAs. It is especially noteworthy that eDreams – a Spanish OTA – continues to overcharge its customers without action or sanction from Spain’s useless Consumer Minister, Pablo Bustinduy.

Ryanair’s Dara Brady said:

“Our August survey shows that a number of OTAs who have no agreement with Ryanair such as eDreams, Tix, Vola and Latamy continue to harm unsuspecting consumers with significant overcharges of up to 148% over Ryanair website prices. Yet EU Govts and Consumer Protection Authorities, and Spain’s useless Consumer Minister Bustinduy does nothing to prevent this harm to Spanish consumers. They continue to turn a blind eye to this ongoing consumer harm.

We call on EU Govts and Consumer Protection Authorities to take action against these OTA overcharges, which are causing real harm to consumers all over Europe and particularly in Spain where the overcharging OTA, eDreams, has a large footprint.”

NEW RECORD MONTH @ 20.7M GUESTS

 Ryanair today (Tue, 5 August) released July 2025 traffic stats as follows: