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Ryanair (FR/RYR) has outlined its planned recovery schedule for Manchester (MAN/EGCC) and Liverpool (LPL/EGGP) airports. As air travel begins to recover from the Coronavirus pandemic and the lifting of restrictions in England the airline hopes to be able to deliver a significant increase in its operations. Manchester Airport will see [read more]

Ryanair’s aircraft delivery programme will create job for 2,000 pilots across Europe as it recovers from the Coronavirus pandemic. The airline has already taken delivery of its first Boeing 737 Max, The 737-8200 and will receive over 200 one of the type in the coming years. Ryanair says that most [read more]

In a stark demonstration of what a difference a year makes, Ryanair’s latest figures show it carried 5.3 million passengers in June 2021 compared to just 0.4 million in June 2020. The results give the airline a load factor of 72% for the 38,000+ flights it operated across all its [read more]

Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has announced it is boosting seats to Malta, Ibiza & Palma by 200,000 following their status change to the green travel list. Ryanair made the announcement of the extra capacity alongside calling on the UK Government to add Cyprus, the Canaries and the Greek Islands [read more]

Ryanair has joined forces with Manchester Airports Group (MAG) to mount a legal challenge to the UK Governments’s traffic light travel system during the pandemic. The system allows for countries to be graded Red, Amber and Green with green being the only colour that doesn’t require a quarantine on return. [read more]

Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has taken delivery of its first Boeing 737 Max aircraft, known as the Boeing 737-8200. Ryanair describes the aircraft as a gamechanger and the aircraft is a Boeing 737-Max8 but with a cabin configured to seat 200. The aircraft arrived in Dublin today from Seattle, [read more]

EU safety and security agencies along with NATO are investigating whether Belarus forcing Ryanair flight FR4978 to divert to Minsk with a false bomb threat was an act of Aviation Piracy. The incident happened on Sunday 23rd May when the flight from Athens to Vilnius was intercepted by Belarusian Fighter [read more]

The UK Government was told airlines to avoid flying through Belarusian airspace after a Ryanair flight from Greece to Lithuania was intercepted and forced to land by the Belarus Government in order to arrest a journalist. Belarus sent Mig-29 Fighter jets to intercept the Ryanair Boeing 737 claiming it had [read more]