(Finance) – The second Italian press conference of Michael O’Leary, CEO of the group Ryanair, in the early afternoon yesterday in Milan, was not a review of the one held in Rome. Without prejudice to the underlying arguments, which concern the additional tax on boarding (“it makes Italy less competitive compared to Spain and Greece”) and the finger was pointed at the increases practiced by some online travel agenciesthe so-called Ota, O’Leary reeled off the growth objectives in Milan Bergamothe reference airport for the 2026 Winter Olympics.
We start from summer programming 2024which starts from the last Sunday of March, with a total of 113 destinationsof which five new ones (Castle, Beni Mellal, Dubrovnik, Sarajevo and Skhiatos), with 23 aircraft basedof which more than half 737 Max 8.
Bergamo this is confirmed third airport in the Ryanair network after London Stansted and Dublin and first in continental Europe. Another five new routes have been scheduled at Milan Malpensa. In summer 2024 Ryanair will be present on 250 European airports93 of which represent Irish airline bases. In Italy it will operate at 29 airports with the aim of carrying 60 million passengers.