Replacement RYANAIR TO CREATE OVER 1,000 NEW JOBS

RNS Number : 6993V

Ryanair Holdings PLC

17 January 2012

 



HEADLINE ALTERATION

The headline for the Ryanair announcement released on 17.01.12 at 11am under RNS No 6872V should read: RYANAIR TO CREATE OVER 1,000 NEW JOBS IN 2012, AS FLEET GROWS FROM 270 TO 305 AIRCRAFT

The announcement text is unchanged and is reproduced in full below.

RYANAIR TO CREATE OVER 1,000 NEW JOBS IN 2012,

AS FLEET GROWS FROM 270 TO 305 AIRCRAFT

Ryanair, the world's favourite airline, today (17^th Jan) confirmed that it will create over 1,000 new jobs in 2012 for pilots, cabin crew, engineers and sales/marketing people, as Ryanair's fleet will grow from 270 to 305 aircraft.

Ryanair is not aware of any other Irish company that will create 1,000 new jobs in 2012.  While many of these jobs will be taken up by Irish people, sadly none will be based in Ireland, where a combination of high charges at the Government owned airports, and the Gov's €3 travel tax, means that seat capacity and traffic at the DAA airports will continue to decline, while Ryanair grows rapidly with 5 more bases in Europe, where airports offer considerably lower fees and other EU governments do not tax visitors.  Already in 2012, Ryanair has announced 5 new bases in Billund (Denmark), Wroclaw (Poland), Palma (Spain), Manchester (UK) and Paphos in Cyprus.  Ryanair expects its traffic to grow from 76m passengers in 2011 to 80m in 2012.

All pilots, cabin crew, engineers and sales and marketing professionals interested in applying for a career with Europe's largest and the world's favourite airline, Ryanair, can obtain further information of these 1,000 new job vacancies on Ryanair's website at www.ryanair.com/ie/careers/job.

Ryanair's Stephen McNamara said:

"Ryanair looks forward to another strong year of fleet and traffic growth in 2012 and we are proud to create over 1,000 new jobs in Europe for pilots, cabin crew, engineers and sales and marketing people, as Ryanair's unmatched lowest fares, and no fuel surcharge guarantee continues to make Ryanair one of Ireland's very few, world leading, multinational success stories.

While Ryanair has grown rapidly to become the No.1 airline in Spain, Italy, the UK and many other EU countries, we continue to reduce flights, traffic and job numbers here in Ireland, where the DAA monopoly airports are totally uncompetitive, and even Aer Lingus has described Dublin Airport's fees as "insane". Sadly the new Irish Government continues to follow the failed policy of its predecessor by supporting the DAA monopoly's high and rising airport fees, and the crazy tourist tax which has seen traffic at the three Govt owned DAA airports decline from 30m passengers in 2007, to just 22m in 2011.

Ryanair believes that Ireland can return to strong traffic, tourism and jobs growth, but only when the new Government delivers on its promise to scrap the tourist tax, reduce the DAA's high airport charges to competitive levels, to put Ireland back in the market as a low cost tourist destination, and end the failed policy of protecting the high cost, traffic declining DAA airport monopoly."

For further information please contact:                   

Stephen McNamara              Joe Carmody

                                                Ryanair Ltd                            Edelman

                                                Tel: [phone]              Tel. [phone]

 

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