This day 36 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 152.4 million passengers in 2018. pic.twitter.com/4xcGKdMxcc
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) July 8, 2021
1985.
Tiny fleet.
Same legroom.
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almost the same annual passenger numbers too
The flight was advertised as Dublin to London