Ryanair invests at least $ 400 million in Italy for next summer. The Irish low cost airline does not stop its expansion campaign despite the pandemic continuing to weaken the air transport sector. On the contrary, it confirms its intention to grow and consolidate its position as the leading national carrier in terms of number of passengers. On the contrary, it confirms that it wants to grow and consolidate its position as the first national carrier by number of passengers: 200 million dollars will be invested at the Treviso airport which will open in June and where the carrier has already announced its new base. Another 200 million between the airports of Bologna and Bergamo-Orio al Serio, 100 million equally divided between the two airports where an additional aircraft will be based in each of them.
In an unusual three-party conference (Bergamo, Bologna and Brindisi), the low cost management explained how it plans to restart the traffic between vaccines and lockdowns.
Ryanair launches the travel wallet
“We are doing everything possible to be ready when the restrictions are lifted and we can return to flying,” said Ryanair CEO Eddie Wilson who does not make any predictions about the next summer season, but is attentive to the vaccination plans of the countries. become the new compass. No health passport will be asked from passengers and since the European travel pass project will not be ready for the summer, in the meantime the carrier has already equipped itself with the travel wallet, a feature on the mobile phone where you can download health documents, from tests anti-Covid vaccinations. Although many European countries are still in lockdown and in Great Britain they are not ruling out extending the ban on travel abroad until July, the management is radiating optimism from all pores by announcing 8 new connections to Bologna and a network of 64 routes, 10 in Puglia between Bari and Brindisi (61 routes) and 2 in Bergamo Orio-al-Serio, the company’s first Italian airport which boasts 100 routes (11 domestic and 89 international) and 20 based aircraft.
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In April the first Boeing 737 Max
The first of the 24 Boeing 737 Max that will be delivered to the company by the summer will arrive in Bergamo after the summer, the first arriving next month, bringing the fleet with the new 210 Max to 600 aircraft with the aim of transporting 200 million passengers by 2026. In Italy, Ryanair does not seem to take a step back despite the long pandemic that has lasted for a year and that has marked the darkest moments in Bergamo: 29 airports served, 15 of which as military bases , 600 routes for the next summer season, 98 of which are domestic. The arrival of easyJet in Orio-al-Serio? “It took them 20 years to decide,” Wilson replies to a reporter’s question. “With the implementation of the vaccination programs in the coming months, we expect that air traffic will also grow through the opening of specific corridors as happened in Germany with the Balearic Islands,” said Wilson connected from Bergamo.
No interest in Linate slots
According to the CEO, much more could be done if the municipal surcharge were abolished, which “is worth 100 million euros, which for the Italian government is nothing compared to the 3.5 billion euros” burned “for Alitalia – he adds -. We have nothing against Alitalia, but we want to compete on equal terms ». On the Linate slots that the national carrier must dispose of as requested by Brussels, the CEO said that in Lombardy Ryanair has enough capacity located between Malpensa and Bergamo “too expensive – he added – and in any case they would be available only for a few years”.