2023-04-19 19:55:08
Due to the lack of aircraft, Ryanair anticipates a decline in activity for the next two to five years. Ackab Photography/Ackab Photography – stock.adobe.com
Ryanair has reduced its flight schedule for July because it will not receive ten new Boeing 737s on time.
Slowly but surely, air transport, put on hold during the Covid pandemic, is recovering. In February, its capacity reached 85% of that of 2019 at the same time. In view of the very dynamic ticket reservations, the companies were betting on a return to normal this year. But a new obstacle will disrupt their plans: the lack of planes. Due to delays in the delivery of new aircraft and the insufficient availability of spare parts, “capacity will be slightly lower than the industry had expected“Warned Willie Walsh on Wednesday.
And the director general of Iata, which federates nearly 200 airlines, does not expect the end of these dysfunctions before 2025 at the earliest. A feeling shared by Michael O’Leary, boss of Ryanair, the largest European company: “The inability of Airbus and Boeing to significantly increase production means, I think, that capacity will be limited on the two, three…
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