Three years ago, Ryanair was a single Irish airline operating flights across Europe.
Ryanair group aircraft, including FR, Malta air, Lauda and Buzz, will use up to six heavy
maintenance bay slots at the joramcos facility in Amman.
The Irish budget airline will continue to invest in its own in-house maintenance as
its fleet increases to over 600 aircraft, but the 5-year arrangement with Joramco offers
the additional capacity to supplement that, insuring maintenance demands are satisfied.
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And in today's video, we are going to talk about “The Ryanair Group: From One Airline
To Five.”
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However, an awful lot has changed in those three years, with five airlines now falling
under the Ryanair Group umbrella, even including some Airbus A320 family aircraft.
Ryanair Group has announced the addition of five aircraft to its Vienna base to operate
nine more routes during its summer 2022 schedule.
The extra aircraft take the LCC’s fleet at Vienna Airport (VIE) to 19.
In 2019 Ryanair Group regained from Lufthansa Group the title of Europe's biggest airline
group by passenger numbers, with a 9.5% increase to 152 million passengers.
Lufthansa Group slipped to second place, with 145 million.
IAG remained third, growing by 4.7% to 118.3 million passengers.
Air France-KLM was fourth, growing by 2.7% to 104 million.
The next three groups – easyJet (97 million passengers, up 5.9%), Turkish Airlines (74
million, down 1.1%), Aeroflot Group (estimated 61 million, up 9.2%) – also held their positions.
The bullish LCC group is now expecting to carry 225 million passengers across its five
airlines annually by March 2026; it had previously targeted 200 million passengers carried annually
by that time.
“Ryanair Group airlines now expect to deliver more rapid traffic growth over the next five
years, and have raised their five-year growth forecast from 33% [over pre-COVID traffic
levels] to 50%,” Ryanair said, detailing the results of its annual general meeting.
“As a result, Ryanair’s pre-COVID traffic of 149 million is expected to grow to over
225 million [annual passengers] by March 2026, which is 25 million passengers per annum higher
than the previous target of 200 million.”
In March 2019, the airline’s only UK-registered aircraft began operating flights for Ryanair
UK.
August 2019 saw the creation of the airline’s largest subsidiary to date.
Known as Malta Air, the airline has bases across Europe and has slowly taken market
share from Ryanair.
Finally, following a complete purchase of the airline, Laudamotion began operating Ryanair
flights in late 2019, according to schedule data from aviation data experts Cerium.
Ryanair has terminated talks on a large order of Boeing 737 Max jets after failing to reach
an agreement on price with the US planemaker.
The low-cost carrier, which is the largest European customer for the Boeing 737 Max,
had been in discussions about ordering the 230-seat Max 10 aircraft.
Last week, Michael O’Leary, the Ryanair group chief executive, put pressure on Boeing,
saying a deal was unlikely to be achieved this year but the airline could order up to
250 new planes if the price was lowered.
Boeing said that while it valued Ryanair as a customer, it would only do deals at a price
that makes commercial sense.
Ryanair Sun, a standalone business unit of the Ryanair Group, obtained its Polish AOC
certificate at the beginning of 2018 and started operating for leading Polish tour operators
in the summer of 2018 with a fleet of 5 aircraft.
Buzz is one of four airlines of the Ryanair Holdings Group, alongside Ryanair DAC, Laudamotion,
and Ryanair UK.
“Over the last 15 years, Ryanair has grown to become Poland’s biggest airline, thanks
to the unbeatable combination of the lowest fares, best customer service, and largest
route network – and we now expect that Buzz will be Poland’s number-one airline.”
Michał Kaczmarzyk, Ryanair Sun chief executive, added:
“Following a successful year of growth for Ryanair Sun, we are delighted that our planes
will have a new and unique branding as we launch Buzz.
Our goal is to offer services at the highest level to both customers and tour operators.”
The 19 aircraft will be a mix of Ryanair Group's Austria-based subsidiary Lauda's Airbus A320s
and Ryanair 737-800 and 737-8200 aircraft.
In addition to Ryanair and Lauda, Ryanair Group airlines comprise Polish leisure carrier
Buzz and Malta Air.
The new destinations to which Ryanair Group airlines will operate from VIE are Amman (AMM)
in Jordan; Kosice (KSC) in Slovakia; Lamezia Terme (SUF), Rimini (RMI), Perugia (PEG),
and Venice (VCE) in Italy; Manchester (MAN) in England; Pula (PUY) in Croatia; and Stockholm
Arlanda (ARN).
The latest announcement will intensify the battle between Ryanair and Eastern European
ULCC Wizz Air, which has also directed resources toward Vienna and has multiple Airbus A320
aircraft based there.
Ryanair plans to add up to 6,000 new employees to its global workforce within the next five
years to support a massive Boeing 737 MAX fleet expansion, according to comments made
by the airline's executive team.
Despite posting a net loss of €96 million for their third-quarter fiscal year, Ryanair
CEO Michael O'Leary has a positive outlook for growth for the Dublin-based carrier that
announced 720 new routes and 15 new bases over the last year and will need to train
and hire new engineers, pilots, and cabin crew to support its planned fleet growth.
"We'll create 6,000 new jobs over the next five years, we're investing heavily in new
people and training, we've opened a €50 million Dublin aviation training center, four
full-motion simulators, two fix-based simulators, cabin crew training facilities and we expect
to open two more of those.
One somewhere in the Iberian Peninsula and one in central to eastern Europe within the
next two or three years," O'Leary said in a video statement released by Ryanair.
"We're committed over the next five years to training and recruiting thousands of very
highly skilled, highly paid aviation professionals."
Most of the training efforts for the new facility will go toward training engineers, pilots,
and cabin crew to operate the Boeing 737-8200 "Gamechanger" aircraft that Ryanair is adding
to its fleet.
The group CEO said he also intends to take further action to challenge the state aid
granted to Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines to overcome the global pandemic and stated
that an appeal has been lodged against the decisions of the General Court of the European
Union.
He compared Austria to North Korea because of its decision to support just one airline,
Austrian Airlines.
More than 50 Boeing 737-800 aircraft will be added to the register over the next 12
months.
Malta Air has taken delivery of more than half of the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft that have
so far been delivered to the Ryanair Group.
So far, the airline has taken 22 of Boeing's latest generation narrowbody jets.
Polish subsidiary Buzz, formerly Ryanair Sun, has the fewest MAX jets, with just eight on
the books so far.
Meanwhile, the main Irish Ryanair airline has 11 Boeing 737 MAX 200 jets registered.
Neither Ryanair UK nor Lauda has any MAX planes.
It seems as though Ryanair is actively ensuring that Malta Air takes more of its MAX order,
at least at the start.
Ryanair is having each MAX painted in the colors of its operators.
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