This day 35 years ago – 8 July 1985 – Ryanair began operations with an inaugural flight between Waterford and London Gatwick on a 15-seater turboprop plane.
Today, it is the largest airline in Europe, and the fifth largest globally, carrying 138.9 million passengers in 2018. pic.twitter.com/IyrmDc7aYu
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) July 8, 2020
More leg room then.
FIGHT!
Also: Name that aircraft, anyone?
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Embraer something or other
people have legitimate reasons to dislike them,
But you cant ignore the positive effect of ryanair on the cost of european travel
late 80s early 90s I remember a sale and it was 109 pounds to fly to london
a lot of money back then
We actually are a great bunch of lads – the outsized influence that this tiny, sparsely-populated island has in world affairs really is something to behold.
Embraer 110 Bandeirante. Fleet moved mainly to ATR props and BAC1-11s soon enough
I thought it might be a Fokker.
No.
That’s Michael O’Leary.
Wahaay !
Fun fact: a few years later, one of the girls I went to school with became a stewardess with RyanAir, and was immediately used as a poster girl for them. She was an extraordinarily beautiful lady, so no surprise. I enjoyed going to college that winter as I would be greeted at various bus stops by her smiling face, and the lovely bum of *that* travel ad!
Did you know the cabin girls have a bikini calendar, complete with images of them wrapped around a deathly pasty Michael himself ?
Sadly that came later, and the lady I am thinking of was not included :-(
http://www.financetwitter.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/ryanair_calendar_2012_photo_2.jpg
The durty divil
thank heavens I already had my lunch
you and frillz should do one with bodger
that Spanish sun is frying your noggin :)
And all that lovely carbon emissions that’s going to cost us dearly over the coming years