Thank you so much for your time, and thanks to everybody for watching. So what are Ryanair's targets and how you're going to get to them? I think yeah, that is a potential, but in a lot of cases it's about airport cost and competitiveness, not necessarily the destinations in themselves. var theDate = new Date(); You're obviously confident that you could get to 75% to 80% of pre-COVID capacity this summer. I think the digital COVID certificate gives people the certainty, "I have this. We might even get into the Eurovision Song Contest next year, I don't know. Okay. Ryanair CEO Eddie Wilson appeals to intermediary customers to contact Thank you so much for your time, and thanks to everybody for watching. But I just think it's important to say you've got to lead things sometimes by saying, "We'll put capacity in place. Images Courtesy of Getty Images. We're rapidly running out of time and there's a lot of things I still want to ask you. So you did mention briefly fares, average fares, and the question I was going to ask you was to what extent does discounting ticket prices make any difference in this kind of environment? JW: Yeah. View the profiles of people named Eddie Wilson. Okay. (Reporting by Klaus Lauer; Writing by Conor Humphries; Editing by Kirsten Donovan), Copyright 1995- We publish the names and emails of customer service managers. I think the June traffic figures for the group suggested that you're at around about 50% of 2019 seat capacity, so pre-COVID levels. At the moment, to the extent that you can reveal any data, are average fares for Ryanair going down at the moment, or are they actually holding up? So I think it's different this time.". Ryanair CEO, Eddie Wilson, is confident Newcastle Airport will be a State aid has slowed that, but I think it's inevitable.". Mar 2016 - Present7 years 2 months. The aircraft burnt 16% less fuel, we've got 40% lower noise emissions. I think there's always an element of being price-led in anything. Yeah, I've been on holiday in Ireland in July, and you definitely need indoor dining. Thank you so much for all or your candour. Ryanair has announced that its chief people officer, Eddie Wilson, will succeed Michael O'Leary as chief executive of the airline from September . It's an extra thing on my phone, along with my passport and my boarding card," and I think that's going to transform people booking with certainty. Prior to this he served as Head of Personnel since December 1997. All rights reserved. So I'm confident that we're not going to have any difficulties with that.". We've made a commitment to have 12-and-a-half percent of staff sustainable aviation fuel blenders by 2030. You may as well ban Volkswagen Polos or something, and just allow people to go around in Bentleys because it's better, and there'd be less cars on the road, but it's not very productive.". He'll report to Ryanair Group CEO Michael O . We don't have that tolerance level in aviation, so whatever we move to has got to be safe and secure. Let's fill as many seats as possible. "A lot of aircraft as well have been wrapped up for a long time, and maybe not so much thought has been put into the fact that they may not be serviceable again or it may be uneconomic. We've got the costs coming through on airports, staff to a lesser extent because that's going to be restored over the next number of years, but at least everybody is taking their part in it as well. Eddie Wilson: Yeah. So those type of deals are being struck around Europe as to where capacity is going to go. It doesn't work. No one would have wished this crisis, but it seems like there's maybe been more opportunity than the negative outcome for Ryanair. Ryanair - Europe's Favourite Airline. So I think it's different this time. "But I think that will gradually make its way through Europe. RT is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. Our Leadership Team | Ryanair's Corporate Website JW: No, quite. Contact Us - Ryanair Help Centre Can you just talk about, obviously the UK has been a little bit detached, shall we say, from the rest of Europe in more ways than one, but with Brexit, but also with different COVID-related travel restrictions, but is Stansted going to continue to be one of the most important basis for Ireland, for Ryanair in the future? It's just driven by the government policy here that the one country in Europe that actually needs connectivity with the rest of Europe, in particularly post-Brexit, there's only four-and-a-half million of us here, but we're now the largest English-speaking nation in the European Union. "We'll be able to absorb this in terms of frequency reduction," said Wilson, chief executive of Ryanair DAC, the largest airline in the Ryanair Group. So is that triggered partly by that system? Images Courtesy of Getty Images. They'd have been better off not opening it at all, because they just undermined confidence completely in the UK where people say, I'm not going to book because the government could change its mind. Andreas remained as CEO of Laudamotion following its acquisition by the Ryanair Group. I was going to ask you if there is growing talk of price floors, there's also been quite a lot of state aid in the past year. So Eddie, I'm just going to kick off, I think, by asking you about the current situation where the group is in terms of capacity and traffic. Who else has taken delivery of 60-plus aircraft, actually? Yeah. But I think now what we have is we've got the scale, like we've had a Gothenburg base for some years, we had Skavsta, now it's in Arlanda. If you look at, we would have opened our Stockholm Skavsta base back in 2003 or 2004, and that is a secondary airport and we're still flying there. Great. Music cue: Jaws soundtrack JW: The load factor that run has been achieving is in the low 70s in percentage terms. So I think that's ultimately going to see capacity contract in Europe, particularly on short-haul. RT 2023. You are seeing the thing in terms of the state aid that's going around and in particular, no strings attached on to state aid on giving up slots. So that market, when you looked at it like the Italian market, which would have been a good outbound market, a lot of people decided to stay at home. So there has been a reluctance politically to take any sort of risk, I suppose, in opening up, and Ireland unfortunately has got a little bit more detached from Europe over the last number of months and don't realise, I suppose, that when the economies return to normal, we will still largely be exposed here because next winter is going to be particularly bleak in the Irish market, I would say. Eddie Wilson asks customers who have booked through intermediaries to contact Ryanair if they have not been refunded RYANAIR Group Appoints Eddie Wilson as Chief Executive of Ryanair Listen now (18 min) | In this episode: Walking up to the caldera and through Christchurch's parks. He will report directly to Michael O'Leary who earlier this year took on a new role . Are you confident that that solution will be found in time? It doesn't work. Eddie Wilson. Did we mention it's free? Do I need this? It's always been a strength of the group of course, is that you do have this diversified network, unlike many of the competitors, which are very focused on one market, so you can operate domestically in all kinds of countries outside of Ireland, which is where you originate, because of course the Irish market has been particularly weak, hasn't it? June 04 2021 02:30 AM Facebook; Twitter; Email; We explore the impact on the airline as it enters the peak summer period. Eddie told us the secrets to running a successful airline, what it's like working with Ryanair Group CEO Michael O Leary and what incentives the airline industry needs to stimulate growth. I think it's been a relatively strong build driven by much lower fares coming back from around a million passengers in April to the five million as we made our way up into June. He was previously Production Manager at both Intuition Publishing Ltd and Education Multimedia Group, and has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. Just moving on a little bit, recently, I saw you did a slot swap with EasyJet at Stansted, so you gained some extra slots. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7c09ccfbd8622d83 Looking at the network, obviously most of your markets are in the EU. But I know that the European countries, such as Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal, want to welcome at the English with open arms. proven methods for fixing any consumer problem. His succession begins as the group faces fallout from Brexit and prepares to cut up to 900 pilots and cabin crew from a total of 15,100 as a result of delays in the delivery of Boeings 737 Max. BERLIN (Reuters) - Ryanair may be forced to trim some flights in August due to delivery delays from Boeing but there will be no material impact on customers, senior executive Eddie Wilson said in an interview on Tuesday. Oh, it's going to be fantastic. So I'm going to try and ask you quicker questions if I can. Yeah, I think it's important. No one would have wished this crisis, but it seems like there's maybe been more opportunity than the negative outcome for Ryanair. Last year, or in the last fiscal year of 2019, we paid, I think almost 630 million in environmental taxes. You have things for example, in recent weeks where you had the UK open up Portugal and then close it again. So what are Ryanair's targets and how you're going to get to them? "I think somewhere in the order of TAP in Portugal are going to reduce their fleet by somewhere in the region of 30% or 40%, but they're hanging on to all the slots. Just going back to a couple of the markets that you mentioned there, you talked about Morocco, and you've obviously got that new base going. The majority of this website will not function as intended without JavaScript enabled. Taking place on the second Wednesday of each month, thousands of industry colleagues from across the globe tune in for their monthly dose of aviation and travel news, analysis, and in-depth interviews with industry leaders. He will report to Mr O'Leary, alongside the chief executives of the other airlines, Michal Kaczmarczy of Polish subsidiary, Buzz, Andreas Gruber of Austrian carrier, Lauda and Diarmuid O'Conghaile of Malta Air, Ryanair Holdings' latest addition. Ryanair CEO. Buzz has 25 of the groups craft, Lauda has 16 while Ryanair intends moving 60 planes to Malta Airs airline licence. "That's a long, long time ago. Eversource Gas says I have a leak. We're going to open a base in Riga, but we've got connections and we're well-known in Vilnius, Tallinn, and now in Helsinki, in Tampere, in Billund, we're going to have a base there at winter '21. Laurence Frost and Conor Humphries. How do I get it fixed? What should I do? People got scared from the last time round when they were stranded and couldn't get home, and people worry about that a lot. Join Facebook to connect with Eddie Wilson and others you may know. Once you're straight up with people and sit down with them, we were the first to be able to put in pay cuts, but we did things really quickly. Mein Nisinta Seirbhse Poibl na hireann. "I think that's why it's going to take some time for international travel, particularly from a leisure point of view for that to recover, because it will be driven by vaccination levels, whether that's in the Far East or South America or Africa. Michal joined Buzz in 2017 and is second only to Mehran Nasseri for dwelling in airports just look at his professional experience. Clearly that's very strong compared to much of the industry, but it's a long way below your pre-COVID levels of mid 90%. So there has been a reluctance politically to take any sort of risk, I suppose, in opening up, and Ireland unfortunately has got a little bit more detached from Europe over the last number of months and don't realise, I suppose, that when the economies return to normal, we will still largely be exposed here because next winter is going to be particularly bleak in the Irish market, I would say.". Well, good to leave it on a positive note. Industrial relations, because we've got 89 separate locations, it's not like one big location, and most people figure it out pretty quickly that when you're up against a crisis like this, that Ryanair is going to continue to grow. But I think you are going to see consolidation. Mr Wilson joined the airline as head of personnel in 1997 from computer manufacturer, Gateway 2000, where he was human resources manager. We don't have that tolerance level in aviation, so whatever we move to has got to be safe and secure. Southwest just got a one-two punch for its holiday misdeeds. CAPA Membership provides access to all news and analysis on the site, along with access to many areas of our comprehensive databases and toolsets. RT.ie is the website of Raidi Teilifs ireann, Ireland's National Public Service Media. You seem to have JavaScript disabled in your browser. European aviation is more or less committed to net zero by 2050, which puts it slightly ahead of the global industry. 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Eamon Quinn. Yeah. Yes. We might even get into the Eurovision Song Contest next year, I don't know. So I'm comfortable going to get there, but it's going to take some time to do.". Ryanair chief people officer, Eddie Wilson, will succeed Michael O'Leary as chief executive of the group's biggest airline, Ryanair DAC, from this weekend. What you have seen is that you have seen Norwegian, you have seen other airlines cancelling orders, and you have airlines that are saddled with government debt, and there's no way that governments are going to countenance so-called national carriers not paying back money and then wanting to have big capital expenditure programmes. So those type of deals are being struck around Europe as to where capacity is going to go. When hes not practicing his wheelies this former military man is running the show at Malta Air having previously served as Ryanairs CCO since January 2014. Well, the industry, we do get bad press, and I would say when you look compared to what goes on in shipping or what goes on in agriculture, or what goes on with car use, you don't get Volkswagen getting the same level of negative publicity on the number of cars they produce. I don't know why airlines have this hold over governments when we've got over that in countries like the UK and Ireland, where national airlines no longer exist anymore. If that means that you're going to discount on fares, so be it. "Portugal, for example, I think they're going to hand out close to three and a half billion in a country of about 11 million people. Eddie was appointed Ryanair CEO in September 2019 having previously served as Ryanairs CPO since December 2002. David was appointed CEO Lauda Europe Ltd in September 2020 and CEO of Malta Air in December 2020, having previously served as Ryanairs CCO since January 2014. Media briefing at Ryanair headquarters in Swords, Co Dublin, February 26 2018 Eddie has made a huge contribution to Ryanairs growth without ever losing his South Dublin accent, boyish charm or North Dublin address. Whereas, the focus quite rightly there is on what are the emissions, electric vehicles, et cetera? Let's fill as many seats as possible." You seem to have JavaScript disabled in your browser. In an internal memo to staff, Mr O'Leary said, "Eddie has made a huge contribution to that successful growth, without ever losing his Southside accent, his boyish charm of his Northside address!!! In 2013, Ryanair was both the largest European airline by scheduled passengers carried, and the busiest international airline by passenger numbers. Do you see potential for adding other, let's say North African countries? 2023 Ryanair Group. Interview with Eddie Wilson, CEO of Ryanair, who explained at #TIS2021 how he sees the future of the airline sector.TIS - Tourism Innovation Summit is the gl. Look what we're doing. Juliusz was appointed Group CLO; Company Secretary in late 2019 having previously served as Ryanairs Chief Legal & Regulatory Officer; Company Secretary from May 2009 and Deputy Director of Legal and Regulatory Affairs since 2007. Edward Wilson biography. Ryanair's Eddie Wilson: " You've got to give people confidence" I think you'll see that in Europe initially, whereby when this works, that people will be able to move around Europe, which coincidentally suits us as an airline. They should actually be freeing up those slots and allowing access in there. JW: Hello and welcome to another CAPA Live, and I'm delighted to give a very warm welcome to Eddie Wilson, chief executive of Ryanair DAC, the main operating company of the Ryanair group, which is responsible, I think Eddie, if I'm right, for 250-odd aircraft, which I think is 60% of the group total, or thereabouts. Mein Nisinta Seirbhse Poibl na hireann. It's always been a strength of the group of course, that you do have this diversified network, unlike many of the competitors, which are very focused on one market, so you can operate domestically in all kinds of countries outside Ireland, which is where you originate, because of course the Irish market has been particularly weak, hasn't it? Ryanair CEO says holidaymakers face higher prices for - Newstalk It's not necessarily that we are switching capacity, and I know you'll get onto this, but we have 210 aircraft on order. RT 2023. Plus, we have insightful letters, insider tips, and more. You have airlines like TAP and Alitalia that are never going to grow again. Waited too long to get a passport? Fine, if you need to. So those markets have done well, and we have been picking up an awful lot more capacity into places like the Greek islands and that, where there were more slots available this summer, in anticipation, I suppose that we're going to have a longer summer here one way or the other, whether that's going to stretch into October and potentially beyond that. But I think we are going to have some significant opportunities in some markets, where other airlines are going to exit from it, so I'm looking forward to it.". "So I think that's ultimately going to see capacity contract in Europe, particularly on short haul. Group Chief Executive Michael O'Leary last week said the airline would trim some high-frequency routes in July and Wilson said the same would happen in August but that this would not affect the annual target of flying 185 million passengers. Our help is free. I think we have the scale this time for the connectivity or the length of sectors up there for us to be able to tag on short sectors onto longer leisure sectors. I really can't see the European Commission standing over price floors for anything. We're making, I think, big, big steps here, but the nature of the industry is you can do it in car technology and places like that, and the worst thing that can happen is the car stops on the side of the road. The names Bond 7-year bond. Neil is the black belt of finance, chopping budgets, kicking down costs and making sure the Group continues to grow and bring in the dough. I think we're seeing that we originally had said we're going to be north of 60% of capacity and reasonably confident for the summer months that we will get up to around 75 to 80% of capacity for this summer. The majority of this website will not function as intended without JavaScript enabled. But you would like to think that when you have a growing market like that, that you'll be able to add onto those destinations, but I'm in no hurry to go to another country. "But most airlines are not growing, getting smaller, and you have a significant exit pretty much of Norwegian, you've got Germanwings, there's various other small ones around the side. Holidaymakers in Europe face higher prices for flights next summer due to "pressure from a number of fronts", Ryanair's Eddie Wilson says. I think yeah, that is a potential, but in a lot of cases it's about airport cost and competitiveness, not necessarily the destinations in themselves.