The Service may be bad and in-flight failures often, but people still book: Ryanair reports for 2018 a new passenger record. The title of “Europe’s largest flight company”, but on a different line.
The Irish low-cost airline Ryanair has to operate, despite problems caused by cancellations, and strikes a record to pass in 2018, reported. As the company announced, transported by the Airline in the past year, 139.2 million passengers, which was a Plus of eight percent compared to the previous year. Ryanair reached in the past year, in addition, a utilization of the machine by 96 per cent. Growth slowed, however, in 2017, Ryanair managed to increase its profit to ten percent.
Difficult fiscal year
Behind the low-cost airline to be a turbulent financial year. Beginning in 2018, many flights had to be cancelled because there were problems in the planning of the pilot operations. Especially in the second half of the year, it came to strikes in several countries, including Germany. The workers demanded more money and a better planning of their work. At the beginning of December, the trade Union Association of Cockpit (VC) and Ryanair agreed on a key issues paper for the settlement of the dispute with the pilots. By the end of March, several of the collective should be concluded on the basis of German Law. Also in the UK, Portugal and Italy, Ryanair entered into agreements with the workers.
Positively to the Takeover of Austrian holiday flyer Lauda motion, had contributed in December of around 300,000 to 10.3 million passengers in the group. Ryanair considers that since the end of August, the majority of the successor Airline to the former Air Berlin subsidiary Niki.
