No MAX before Oct 2020
 

According to RTÉ (3rd Jan 2020), in an interview with Wirtschaftswoche, MO'L has said he doesn't expect to receive any 737 MAX aircraft before October 2020.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0103/11...yanair-boeing/

JAS

I see Dublin to Munich is not bookable for the summer. Leaving the route to AerLingus and Lufthansa.

Over 100 aircraft have now been transferred to Malta Air and Buzz.

Does anyone know if Ryanair is still flying the Stansted- Dusseldorf Weeze route these days? I suspect not. Thanks.

Why not look at the timetable?

I did. There was none but I didn't know if perhaps the flights for a summer season hadn't been loaded yet.

........... and nothing so far for STN-SXB or STN-BSL. Have they been completely cut?

From 'Travel Mole':

Ryanair expects further MAX delivery delays

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Ryanair is not expecting to receive its first Boeing MAX aircraft delivery until September or October, rather than this spring. MAX aircraft were grounded worldwide following two fatal crashes. Boeing has been working on fixing a faulty anti-stall system but has not given a date for the MAX to be reintroduced. Ryanair says the new requirement for MAX simulator training will also slow down the delivery of backlogged aircraft and new deliveries.

"But we believe that these 'gamechanger' aircraft - with 4% more seats, burn 16% less fuel - when delivered, will transform our cost base and our business for the next decade," it said today, as it reported its third quarter results. "Due to these delivery delays, we won't see any of these cost savings until late in the 2021 financial year. As a direct result of these delivery delays, we plan to extend our 200 million a year passenger target by at least one or two years to 2025 or 2026."

But on a more positive note, Ryanair said strong Christmas and New Year bookings have helped it swing back into profit in the third quarter. It reported a profit of €88 million compared to a €66 million loss in the same quarter last year. Traffic grew 6% to 36 million passengers and revenue per passenger rose 13%.

It said forward bookings for the fourth quarter are 1% ahead. As a result, Ryanair's full-year profit after tax guidance has risen to a range of €0.95 billion to €1.05 billion.

MOL betting the whole company on the Max scare will quickly fade with hope of deeply discounted ExMax price:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-b...-idUSKBN1ZX1H9
It worked in 2001, maybe it will work again. But this time Boeing isn't short of orders, just the ability to deliver them.

That will be 3 different sizes of aircraft to manage and sell for. There is no way they will treat them as one ac type and either oversell or undersell the seats.
It is time for Ryanair to get somebody representing ops (operations/flightcrew/engineering) in among the Z's again.

There's no reason for Boeing to reprice the current order, which for 210 aircraft will take several years to deliver. There is an oligopoly of just two aircraft in this range, Ryanair already have an order in with Boeing at an agreed price, Airbus is sold out for the foreseeable future, and neither are minded to offer any bargains. Sure there is compensation for late delivery of the Max, but that's a separate matter.

Ryanair have been censured by the UK's advertising watchdog for claiming to be "the lowest CO2 emissions airline" and sundry other "we are the greenest" claims. The silly thing about this advertising campaign was Ryanair's claim that they were able to achieve low emissions by using the latest aircraft with the most modern engines. But they don't have any A320/321 NEOs in their fleet do they? Surely, they weren't referring to the non-flying Max fleet?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51372780

The BOEING 737-MAX is the greenest of airliners since the Comet 1s in 1953, the DC10 in 1979 or the BOEING B787 in 2012
Really!

It sure is at the moment. It ain't causing any environmental damage right now.

New route

rodez-Manchester
2pw
Begins June 2020

Didn’t MOL day there’d be no expansion in the UK because of Brexit?

What is Ryanair’s biggest market? UK must be fairly close to the top.

UK I’d say...

Maybe the press running awY with a story :rolleyes:.
However, I don’t think Ryanair has said, its not interested in it’s Aircraft.

Are Valencia and Alghero the only FR bases that closed and then reopened again at a later date? Were Rygge and Zadar maybe some others.

Has O'Leary stepped too far this time & what will be the consequences for Ryanair?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...nair-boss.html

More free publicity and more passengers probably

He's a nasty piece of work and his airline is garbage.

Before anybody starts critisising Michael O'Leary for having the courage to point out what is in effect an unavoidable truth, they should be directing their disgust at those who have carried out more than 36,448 terrorist attacks in the name of Islam since 9/11. The western world ignores these daily atrocities at its peril.

Not true, Ryanair doesn't need the (bad) publicity anymore - everyone has heard of them and their low fare offering. This will be the end for MOL as the public face of Ryanair.

No fan of Ryanair but he was just speaking the truth, which is why some people don’t like it.

And replace him with the "new" Ryanair CEO Eddie Wilson ? I don't think so.
And their CMO has handed in his notice.

What is there of other alternatives for a new single public face of Ryanair?

None

If people read the article rather than the snippets then he is saying focus on those who commit acts.

Probably not. I don't think anyone cares and he isn't telling porkies

Does anyone know yet when we are going to get one of the existing Ryanair aircraft painted into Malta Air or Buzz (Ryanair Sun) colour schemes? Anything in the paintshop yet or is there a timetable for when they go in.

I’ve sent at least 1 Buzz aircraft in the new white and yellow scheme, on twitter but don’t know the location.
Malta air nothing yet as far as I have heard. The Maltese reg aircraft are all over Europe at the moment given the aircraft shortage

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I think the 1 buzz painted aircraft is a Max that obviously hasn’t been delivered..... yet

Ryanair group have said that existing aircraft won’t be repainted to their respective AOC airline. Only new aircraft will be.

Are the (3??) aircraft that went to Victorville for pickle fork replacement back in service now?

So far only the MAX, has the Buzz livery, as far as I know, no Aircraft are painted as Air Malta, as yet.

https://www.independent.ie/world-new...-39009643.html

Ryanair announce layoffs likely because of downturn.

The statement actually says it "cannot rule out layoffs" not that they are likely.

MOL currently live on Sky News just said Airbus asked them if they would take aircraft before 2025 ..... sound like there talking to Airbus.... guessing this is for Lauda

No layoffs mean there will be none.
Cannot rule it out reads there will be layoffs but we have to use middle of the road language to avoid panic and upsetting people more.