Ryanair grows at Malpensa, cuts on Bergamo. O' Leary: "From April we take over easyJet on Venice."
Malpensa up, Bergamo down. With a raid by his people on a Milanese hotel, followed by another in Rome a [...]

Malpensa up, Bergamo down. With a raid by his people on a Milanese hotel, followed by another in Rome a couple of hours later, the Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary illustrated that Winter 2024-2025 will be the one at Lombardy's two largest airports For Europe's largest low-cost.
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What Will focus on Malpensa, with ten routes (some new, some simply 'in continuation' of Summer, but which were discontinued in the previous Winter), and the placement of an additional aircraft, the eighth based at the Varese airport (where Ryanair, we recall, operates out of Terminal 1). The winter routes added (or confirmed from the summer) will be those to Athens, Budapest, Paris, Fuerteventura, Majorca, Marrakesh, Krakow, Reggio Calabria, Rzeszow, and Tallinn.
Bergamo, on the other hand, will see Ryanair's Winter fleet being reduced from 24 to 20 aircraft, amounting to a loss of 5% of the 20 million seats offered, and of five routes, with a Transfer of capacity (within the Italian market) to Trieste and Reggio Calabria, two cities that have recently abolished the municipal surtax, among the costs borne by the companies.
O' Leary launched an appeal to the meloni government to abolish the municipal surtax at all Italian airports, offering 'in return' "investment on Italy of another $4 billion with the addition of 40 more new aircraft that would bring another 20 million seats on board on a total of 250 routes."
The Irish low-cost number 1 explained the partial 'withdrawal' from Orio al Serio with "The delays with which Boeing is delivering aircraft to us. we ordered. During the Summer 2024 - he said - we should have received 50 planes, but only 30 have been delivered to us, and between now and the end of the year we expect no more than 10. This being the case, we preferred to take something away from Orio, where we still remain 'big', and add something to Malpensa and those airports that have come to our aid by reducing the costs to us, such as Trieste and Reggio Calabria."
The CEO was also asked to Venice, where easyJet announced the closure of its base. "With the Marco Polo we have been talking for some time and it is obvious that these talks have intensified in the last two weeks. EasyJet will not take its planes out of there until March, and We by April count on being ready to take over from them.". Returning to Malpensa, however, he specified that 'our further growth there is closely linked to the possibility of having additional early morning and late evening slots."