Ryanair To Boeing: Hurry!
Sharon MillerRyanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said this week that the Irish budget carrier is ready to wait until the end of November or the beginning of December to sign an agreement with aircraft maker Boeing for a new order of aircrafts.
But in his latest threats in the discussions with Boeing, O’Leary stressed Ryanair is planning to end its relationship with the plane manufacturer if no preliminary deal emerges near the end of the month which would provide time to sign a formal agreement by the end of the year.
Notoriously tough and hard headed in business, O’Leary has already cautioned Boeing earlier in November that discussions concerning a 200-aircraft order scheduled for delivery during the period between 2013 and 2016 had been progressing at a snail’s pace and that this may very well slow down the rapid growth of the popular bargain airline starting from 2013.
O’Leary said that he had no intentions of wasting his Christmas holiday on discussions with guys in Seattle, which is the home base of Boeing, adding the situation was so critical that an agreement appeared very unlikely.
Meanwhile, the carrier revealed that it would begin new service starting in March 2010, linking Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport to three destinations in Europe, thus bringing its total number of travel points from the city to 44. Lodz in Poland, Trapini on the Italian island of Sicily and Rimini on the east coast of Italy are the three new destinations offered to the Liverpool area.
The carrier also announced that it would base two new Boeing 737-800s at the airport.
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