They already have “the MAX’

Though RUK does operate a handful of schedules with Max 8 aircraft from the parent company, for example the Sunday BHX/Tirana rotation.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj50d6q3jlroRyanair says it expects summer fares will be much lower than last year after profits at the no-frills airline fell by almost 50%.

The company said cost-conscious passengers were cutting back while the timing of Easter holidays had also hit earnings, which slumped to €401m (£338m) in the three months to 30 June when compared with a year ago. Average passenger fares fell by 15% in the period, and the carrier said it would have to offer more discounting in the coming months.

"Fares are now moving materially lower than the prior year and pricing... continues to deteriorate," its boss Michael O'Leary said in a presentation announcing its latest results, external.

Shares in Ryanair and other airlines fell sharply as experts questioned whether the wider sector would be affected by customer budgets being squeezed during the peak summer travel period. Ryanair said it now expected fares between July and September to be "materially lower" than last year, rather than "flat to modestly up" as it previously expected.

The typical Ryanair fare in June stood at €41.93 in June, down from €49.07 the year before.

Chief financial officer Neil Sorahan said he thought that consumers were simply being "a little bit more frugal, a bit more cautious" with their money. He added that after two years of growth in travel demand, "there's a bit of pushback". Despite the slide in profits, Ryanair's passenger numbers increased slightly in the period, limiting the fall in its overall revenue to just 1%. However, the weak results may suggest that a post-pandemic boom in pricing enjoyed by airlines could be coming to an end, with other carriers having recently warned over falling ticket prices.

Ryanair said on Monday that its performance over the rest of the summer is "totally dependent" on more last-minute bookings and those in August and September in particular. Customers are typically waiting longer than usual to book summer holidays, which is thought to be partly a result of the ongoing effects of the cost-of-living crisis. Earlier in July, Jet2 said there would only be "modest" price increases this summer amid a wave of later bookings to its European destinations. Lufthansa has also pointed to "negative market trends", while Air France-KLM warned of a financial hit after fewer people than expected booked flights to Paris for the forthcoming Olympic Games.

In early morning trade in London on Monday, Ryanair's share price was down 12.5%, while that of rival carriers such as EasyJet fell 6.51% and Wizz Air 6.56%.

Unsure if it’s been mentioned here but Ryanair are to expand their AOG rescue fleet which currently only has the Learjet but now plan on adding 2 to 4 Challenger 300/3500 with recruitment already started for their arrival.

https://careers.ryanair.com/jobs/b1-...er-300-series/

https://careers.ryanair.com/jobs/par...nger-3500-stn/

tom7130. Thank you. Much appreciated

Aircraft delivered to Ryanair have usually entered service remarkably quickly - often arriving at DUB one afternoon and engaging in revenue flights the next day. It is therefore surprising to see that the most recent delivery (EI-IJZ) which arrived at DUB on the 1st August has not yet entered service. Also another very recent delivery (EI-IKA) completed a few flights but has not moved from ALC since the early hours of the 2nd August. Can anyone reveal the reason for this? Are there serviceability issues already with these new aircraft?

How is it possible to request a refund of add-on’s to a Ryanair flight that has been cancelled.
Today due to storms at Palma, my flight was cancelled and after confirming my refund, the amount is only what I paid for the ticket and does not include the seat and bags I added on afterwards…

You have got to love the man. MOL has just had a rant against the Irish Government and their failure to lift the passenger cap at DUB.

That part may be fair enough but he goes on to say that this will mean Irish folk travelling home for Christmas may have to cough up €500 one way from London. He repeats this is down to the Green Minister and the Government.

Clearly the fares Ryanair charge are totally outside of their control.

But a great way of increasing prices is by restricting supply - have look at your gas bill, or petrol prices when OPEC reduced production..

It's simple supply and demand, they are a business. If people are willing to pay that then that is what they can charge. Blame the idiotic green government and Dublin airport management not Ryanair

I do not have a problem with anything you say about supply and demand, it is absolutely correct. You would have thought by now I would be used to watching MOL seeing everything from a numbers cap to a cream pie in the face as an opportunity for Ryanair.

Berlin down to 7 a/c
https://corporate.ryanair.com/nachri...-access-costs/

Modlin down to 4 a/c
https://corporate.ryanair.com/inform...juna-lotnisku/

S25
 

Anyone have any idea when the full array of summer 2025 schedule flights will be on sale?

I believe by the end of September it should be available, Ryanair seem to always be one of the last, rule of thumb is they release it 5-6 months before the next season

Probably not a bad idea as long as they do it right

That will be £1 extra per day for a shower and £2 for a bath, plus try not to flush the toilet too much to save water!!

MOL for Irish PM
 

Slightly off topic but he had some valid points
https://m.independent.ie/news/ryanai...985874526.html

Lauda A320 9H-LOP ferried VIE-GBA today as RYR303. Winter maintenance/storage with GCAM? Don't think they are forecast to retire any more A320s until the MAX 10s start coming online.

Nope all a320 leases extended until 2028

Thank you. That was the impression I had.

No problem, have a feeling they could well be around into the 2030's.

Looks as though the entire summer 2025 schedule has temporarily been removed from the booking system. Someone press the wrong button ;)

Arrived devoid of Lauda livery so it may well be for part-out.

Yep, first of the 320s for part out, more to follow as Max deliveries increase

But is Boeing currently able to deliver any MAXs?

I have flown 4 Ryanair flights within the last month, each delayed due to ATC restrictions! Not the airlines fault of course, but so frustrating from a passenger perspective when you have booked onward public transport in the form trains or pre booked Uber!

On each flight I witnessed so many passengers getting up to get something from their hand luggage in the overhead locker or to use the toilet even with the seatbelt sign still on! Cabin crew repeated attempts over the PA requesting they return to their seats and fasten seat belts sometimes fell on deaf ears! I noticed this happens most of the time once the cabin crew are moving around, roughly about 5 mins or so after take off.
I think Ryanair need to adopt an announcement like Easyjet have, when a few minutes after take off, the purser announces something along the lines of "Very shortly, the cabin crew will be released from their seats, please continue to observe the fasten seatbelt sign until the captain has switched it off".
And then upon landing on Easyjet, I heard the pre-recorded announcement "shortly the cabin crew will be released to perform safety related duties, please continue observe the fasten seatbelt sign until the captain has switched it off".

I think some passengers are just plain stupid, inpatient or ignorant?! Anyway, regardless of the reason(s), something needs to change! This is a safety issue, as some of the flights I was on, encountered moderate turbulence and given some of the instances of passenger and crew injures earlier this year due to inflight turbulence (although I know this is unlikely, but not impossible) it really needs to be addressed more strictly in my opinion, maybe with an announcement by the captain with the threat of diversion if passengers don't follow the rules from the cabin crew!

Although I have witnessed worse, when flying in eastern Europe when cabin crew completely missed some passengers who didn't even have their seatbelts fastened for landing! Don't know if this is a cultural thing or not, but the majority of my flights taken place in northern and western Europe and in my recent cases where between UK, France and Greece with UK based crew where I find safety is taking that bit more seriously.

Was on a Lauda Europe flight out of PMI not long ago where the seatbelt sign was left on for an additional half hour or so after departure, presumably due to a risk of turbulence. The number of pax who completely disregarded this and stood up to use the lavatories was astonishing. Eventually the crew gave up on trying to enforce it.

MANFAN,

What you're describing is modern human behaviour!

Never mind, if an incident happens, such as unforeseen turbulence they are confident they can take legal action for compensation! The passenger, rather like the patient or parents know better than those with superior knowledge and experience in fields they have been trained in.

[QUOTE] I think Ryanair need to adopt an announcement like Easyjet have, when a few minutes after take off, the purser announces something along the lines of "Very shortly, the cabin crew will be released from their seats, please continue to observe the fasten seatbelt sign until the captain has switched it off". [/QUOTE]

They already do consistently by crew announcement as soon as they're released from their seats. It's also enforced in the safety demo and on the seat-back safety instructions that quite honestly, very few people will actually look at despite it being plastered right in front of your face. Equally if anybody does stand up with the seatbelt signs on, especially around taxi, takeoff or landing they'll instruct them to return to their seats. Other than physical enforcement what else can they really do? If anybody causes a fuss or refuses to comply then that's going towards disruptive behavior territory and there's a whole different protocol for that.

Saying that I've definitely observed a behavior by Ryanair crew to keep the seatbelt signs on during trolley service, which I feel is nothing more than a deterrent to people getting up and using the toilet whilst the trolley is in the aisle, rather than for any particular safety reason.

4 (including 9H-LOP) are leaving between now and 2027, with another 5 in 2028, 9 in 2029 and the final 9 in 2030.

Something I've been observing over the past few years in the changes to Ryanair schedules. S25 is still a way off, and undoubtedly they'll be further changes to what's on sale currently, but so far the quality of the schedule looks better than it has the past few years. Principally many routes operating only 3 or 4 days a week are returning to a more traditional alternate days of operations (ie Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun) as opposed to a more random scheduling of say Mon, Tue, Wed, Sat. There's still exceptions but it's generally better so far.

It's still a way off what they had in 2019 however when they had what you could clearly see was a very well structured schedule. At STN, most of the key cities ie BCN, BUD, CPH, DUB, MAD, MXP, PRG would consistenly have non-based turns for the first wave to allow for early morning arrivals into London, and equally an evening wave that would depart around 19:00-20:00 to suit those passengers after a days work or pleasure in the capital. This also made UK based European city-break travel more attractive timings and takes advantage of the time difference on the continent. This seems to have gone out the window a bit where you might get these only on odd days of the week, and you now might get a Dubrovnik or Santiago Spain coming in on a 7am arrival which are not generally as preferable for those kind of destinations.

Granted the demographics of business travel has changed since Covid and they utilise their fleet differently, but this still seems a lost opportunity to me of what they previously did, and could still achieve, very well.

Looking at some flights in February and Ryanair are showing ‘operated by Ryanair Sun’. I thought that brand was replaced by Buzz quite a few years ago? Or have I missed something?

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....0c60e45a4.jpeg
From Ryanair App

Use of the Buzz brand isn't permitted by the Hungarian authorities because of a legal challenge by Wizz (not sure if this was ever settled), so the Ryanair Sun name has to be used on flights to and from Hungarian airports. Hence why the company is still Ryanair Sun SA and was never renamed. I think the name is also used on flights for the likes of TUI, in place of Buzz, though I couldn't say why.

I tend to agree. I fly out once or twice a year to Naples to visit Family with my elderly parents. We generally use easyJet however as my parents have got older, the easyJet schedule of only 6am flights out from London is starting to grate. To Ryanair's credit, they are one of the only carriers (bar BA) offering a 'daytime' flight to Naples out of London however that daytime flight time does vary between 9am and 4pm depending on what day you choose

He would say that, wouldn't he?

https://corporate.ryanair.com/news/r...-tax-increase/

What I find puzzling is doesn't this not come into effect untill 2026. Id hate to be an airport having to deal with Ryanair's temper tantrums and npt knowing if they are coming or going

Looking at UK Gov website the new increases do not come into force until 1 April 2026.

I’m sure Boeing will be relieved. Until this week the cuts to Ryanair capacity next year were all Boeing’s fault.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aer...ys-2024-10-16/
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