it looks like FR had about 25% of its fleet grounded last month for most of each week.
It very much depends on which 25% you talk about. That is a few billion euros of assets not working for shareholders.
If those are ones that are
directly owned by Ryanair then really they're losing less money sat there than in the sky as MOL has said on many occasions.
The traffic numbers are out for Feb. Easyjet adds 13% more pax and fills 87% of seats, FR adds just under 5% and sells only 76% of its seats.
easyJet does seem to have the more sustainable business product and IMO chose the right aircraft size in the A319. Now they've added the A320 to add more flexibility to the schedule which can only be of benefit, certainly during the summer in and out of AGP, ALC etc.