Ryanair invests 3.3 billion {dollars} in Lombardy airports | EUROtoday

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Ryanair, the Irish low-cost airline, expects to develop 9% in Italy in 2026 with 69 million passengers. We will begin from Milan Malpensa and Milan Bergamo: «This summer season Ryanair will base 3 new B737-800 plane in Milan, bringing our Milan-based fleet to a complete of 33 plane – for an funding of three.3 billion {dollars} – and can function a file variety of 156 routes (7 new), guaranteeing a site visitors development of +9% as much as 20.3 million passengers per 12 months».

9% development in Italy

The firm that desires to substantiate itself as primary in Italy is current in 32 airports with 20 bases together with Trapani since January this 12 months, with 111 plane based mostly for a complete funding of 11 billion {dollars} making 800 routes accessible (40 new from this 12 months). Its technique is to concentrate on these airports the place airport taxes have been decreased or eradicated equivalent to Abruzzo, Calabria, Friuli Venezia Giulia, and within the smaller airports of Sicily. The newest was Emilia Romagna whose administration has decreased taxes for the airports of Parma, Rimini and Forlì and on which the CEO doesn’t rule out any modifications quickly.

«Overall in Europe – he explains – we have now 96 bases, and we’re current in 224 airports positioned in 36 nations. In fiscal 2026 we anticipate passengers to be 207 million and we purpose to succeed in 300 million in 2034.”

The capital’s airports are not very competitive

From Lombardy to Lazio with Rome as the capital and its Fiumicino and Ciampino airports considered “non-competitive”. In particular, the Leonardo da Vinci has «airport rates close to 50 euros, too high for our discounted rates. The government has to do something about it, because what will happen is that Rome will fall behind other major European hubs, like Madrid, London, Amsterdam and similar places, and will have to become more competitive.”

Wilson didn’t fail to throw a jab at Ita Airways: «Ita will not be increasing as a result of its homeowners usually are not significantly excited by having connections and this can result in a gradual shift of flights to Frankfurt and Munich. Rome wants some type of authorities intervention on tariffs to make it extra aggressive”, he added, underlining that “all Milan’s airports are rising in the mean time. The airport system right here, no less than, works. But it would not work in Rome; in Rome it’s dysfunctional.”