Ryanair meets forecasts and closes 2025 with 207 million passengers, regardless of the discount in seats in Spain | Companies | EUROtoday

The Irish airline Ryanair has confirmed this morning the consolidation of its management in Europe, closing 2025 with a passenger quantity of 206.5 million passengers, which represented a progress of 5% in comparison with the 197.2 million registered twelve months earlier. The firm additionally reported that the load issue (variety of seats occupied per flight) remained on the 94% that it additionally recorded in 2024.

A consequence that happens within the midst of the corporate’s withdrawal from a few of its primary markets, akin to Spain, the place it eradicated 1.8 million seats in a number of regional airports. The forecasts it manages for its fiscal 12 months, which runs from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026, are additionally very optimistic and have been revised upwards within the final presentation of outcomes, the place it raised the anticipated visitors to 207 million vacationers in comparison with the 206 million initially anticipated. The new goal represents a 3% bounce in buyer quantity, amongst different issues as a result of arrival of plane dedicated to Boeing.

The technique of relocating seats in these areas and airports that decrease taxes, akin to Sweden, Slovakia, Italy, Albania or Morocco in comparison with others akin to Spain, France, Germany or Belgium that don’t, appears to have had an impact and has allowed the airline to fulfill its visitors forecasts. The adjustment of 1.8 million seats in Spain is simply the primary chapter of a battle that the Irish airline is waging with the Spanish Executive over the charges charged by Aena, because it has introduced a 3rd reduce of 1.2 million seats for the excessive season of 2026.

In his newest public appearances, the CEO of the Irish group, Michael O’Leary, has insisted that he’ll solely reverse the seat cuts so long as two premises are met: that Aena cancels the deliberate 7% price enhance and that it additionally considerably reduces the charges that tax operations at regional airports. “They are at 10% or 20% capacity and rates should drop by at least 50% to stimulate traffic.”

This elimination of locations in 4 of its primary markets in Europe doesn’t appear to have taken its toll on its outcomes both. In the primary half of its final fiscal 12 months, which ended on September 30, the Irish airline earned 2,540 million euros, which was 42% greater than final 12 months, with passenger visitors that rose 3% to 119 million, a brand new all-time excessive for the corporate. In these six months, the airline’s costs elevated a mean of 13%, whereas income per passenger elevated 9%.