All the souls of Ryanair: when you fly Ryanair but it doesn't say Ryanair on the nacelle
In years and years of airline travel, we have seen them galore, including colorful liveries, white, themed [...]
Ryanair
In years and years of airline travel we have views galore, including colored liveries, white, themed, with sponsors, for special occasions, marketing gimmicks, and you name it...
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What many people do not know, however, is that most likely some of these planes with which you have traveled, even if they show up with drawings e different names, belong to the same airline which operates through affiliates, That is, companies and/or carriers directly connected with a main company.
One of the big companies that has been operating with its subsidiaries for quite some time is Low Cost Ryanair, Today we will see which are his most famous faces and which carriers he works with.
The Ryanair Group
Let's start with the basics, Ryanair we all know is an Irish low-cost airline, precisely the most big European low-cost airline, plays for the title with eternal rival easyJet. Founded in 1895 by Tony Ryan has as its main base of operations the airport in London Stansted.
Including orders, Ryanair has about 460 aircraft, operates 84 bases and connects 35 countries. After a period of great prosperity, at the end of 2018 came a crisis in the company's coffers with substantial losses, all seasoned by the Brexit That only made the situation worse.
For this reason, as of 2019, a total reorganization company, dividing Ryanair into 4 subsidiaries that are respectively:
- Ryanair Dac based in Ireland
- Ryanair UK which instead is based in the United Kingdom
- Laudamotion (later to become Lauda) based in Austria and later in Malta
- Ryanair Sun instead he is based in Poland
This has also resulted in companies check separate, but still reporting to Ryanair, each with different liveries and names. Let's find out together what they are.
Buzz Air
Buzz air part of Ryanair's Polish division, recently also appeared in Italian skies, specifically at Bergamo Orio al Serio airport, with its Boeing 737-8200 and its Yellow and black bee drawn on the tail.
A Buzz air existed as far back as 2000, operated charter flights in the UK but was later absorbed by Ryanair, which used its slots, only from 2019 decided to resume the old name Buzz, just to manage the Polish division.
Lauda
The name is not a matter of homonymy, Lauda Is precisely the airline founded in 2017 by the great Austrian formula 1 champion Niki Lauda.
It was originally called Laudamotion GmbH, in 2018 Ryanair stepped in, first buying the company's 25%, then the 75%, and finally, on Jan. 29, 2019, became the owner at the 100% Of the Austrian carrier.
Initially the base was precisely in Austria, except to be moved to Malta in 2020 under the alias Lauda Europe and with a fleet of 30 Airbus A320s.
Malta Air
Staying still in Malta, a new airline pops up, not Air Malta the Maltese national airline, but rather Malta Air by Ryanair.
The new airline will also operate in Italy, the bases will be the airports of Bologna and Milan Bergamo, in addition, of course, to the main HUB at Malta International Airport. The main routes will be Eindhoven, Bucharest, Kiev, Lourdes, Milan, Paphos, Tallinn, Warsaw and Zagreb and will be operated with Boeing 737-8200.
The next time you happen to get on one of these companies...well, Know that it is like flying Ryanair.
