Ryanair likes big ads. Once again, it shows that he is putting up big numbers for the year ahead. After a relatively difficult year 2024, the Irish low-cost airline indicates that it will invest 3 billion euros in 2025.
This sum will mainly be used to develop the fleet, with Ryanair announcing that it will receive up to 29 Boeing 737 MAX. “While most European airlines remain at limited capacity, Ryanair is on track to receive 29 new Boeing 737s in 2025,” he said. welcomes Jade Kirwan, communications director at Ryanair in a press release. This figure normally corresponds to the nominal delivery schedule planned by the company with the manufacturer Boeing, as presented during the company’s half-year results last November (Ryanair operates on a staggered basis, from April 1 to March 31).
However, a question arises. During this same presentation, it was also indicated that a certain number of deliveries initially planned for 2024 will be postponed to 2025, due to the difficulties encountered by Boeing in meeting its delivery commitments (quality problems, speed limitation, strike). With this change, the company indicated that it hoped to receive up to 38 aircraft next year. However, Ryanair does not specify whether the figure announced today takes this delay into account.
However, the company announces that this reinforcement of its fleet will allow it to address 210 million passengers next year. And that this will be accompanied by the creation of 2,000 new jobs.
France set aside
This growth is not expected to be evenly distributed. In line with its strategy to maximize profits, Ryanair announced that the new aircraft “It will be awarded to efficient and low-cost airports in EU countries where governments are driving growth in the aviation sector, such as Sweden, Italy, Spain and Poland”. The company’s press release assures, on the contrary, “There will be no growth in countries that raise rates, such as the UK, France and Germany”.
At the end of November, the European low-cost giant did not hesitate to launch an ultimatum to the French government: it ordered them to give up their plan to increase the tax on plane tickets, otherwise suspend its flights in ten French airports the regional authority and would reduce its activity in the regions by 50%. This tax increase is currently suspended due to the change of government, with the freezing of the 2025 finance project But Ryanair does not seem to have reversed its threat for the time being.
