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Irish ‘Air Giant’ Ryanair is Coming to Dubrovnik?

Ryanair Ltd., an Irish low-cost airline company, popular all around the world, might soon land at Dubrovnik Airport.

Last week, mayor of Dubrovnik Andro Vlahušić opened the discussion with Ryanair representative Luis Fernandez, and meeting opened the discussion about joining together two strong brands – Dubrovnik and Irish ‘air giant’, and our mayor stated the opportunity of signing the long term contract with Ryanair – 5 or 10 yrs agreement.

This company will transport 116 million passengers just during this year, as they hope. That is the highest number of any European company! Ryanair flies to 194 destinations and has a fleet of 300 aircraft, and Dubrovnik’s wish is to become one of its destinations.

While waiting the dream to come true, we bring you some trivia about this worldwide known company:

Ryanair operates over 340 Boeing 737-800 aircraft, with a single 737-700 maintained on the roster as a backup plane and for crew training

Ryanair’s route network serves 32 countries in Europe, Africa (Morocco), and the Middle East (Israel)

Ryanair is established in 1984, and now employs over 9500 members of staff, including 1200 pilots

On 9th March, 2016, Ryanair launched a corporate jet charter service, offering a Boeing 737-700 for corporate or group hire