It’s no stretch to say that the Irish airline company Ryanair has revolutionized the commercial airline industry in Europe over the past decade. Led by notorious and controversial CEO Michael O’Leary, the airline’s focus on driving down costs and insisting on delivering the cheapest flights have made Ryanair the preferred airline of swaths of Europeans on a budget. While the airline’s dominance as the low-cost carrier is a relatively new phenomenon, the company was founded more than 30 years ago and enjoyed many years as a small airline company, operating almost exclusively on UK routes.
Ryanair has more than 400 Boeing 737-800 aircraft at its disposal and has destinations in 37 countries across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Measures by passengers served, the airline is second in Europe only to German airline Lufthansa, and it employs north of 13,000 people. While the company has not been exempted from controversy, the company has managed to secure healthy earnings and growth from selling tickets at prices that would have been considered nothing short of ridiculous in the years prior its rise.
Whether the past few years of success enjoyed by the airline is simply a case of The Luck of the Irish or sheer brilliance from Michael O’Leary and his highly efficient team is hard to tell. But there is no getting around that Ryanair has made weekend getaways affordable to many people that did not previously have such opportunities. So if you would rather not break your budget beforeyou arrive at your next destination, Ryanair might just have what you’re looking for. Explore your options here.
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