Ryanair today confirmed that the UK CAA has issued Ryanair UK with a UK AOC, which will allow this UK airline to operate UK domestic and UK to non-EU routes in a post-Brexit environment, if necessary.
Ryanair continues to call on the UK and EU to agree a transition deal from 31 March 2019, so that any disruption to flights and British consumer summer holidays in 2019 can be avoided.
Ryanair’s Juliusz Komorek said: “We welcome the Civil Aviation Authority’s decision to grant our UK based airline, Ryanair UK, with a UK AOC, allowing Ryanair to operate UK domestic routes and UK to non-EU routes in a post-Brexit environment.
The risk of a ‘no deal’ Brexit in March is rising, and despite our robust post-Brexit structures, including our post-Brexit plan around European ownership, we continue to call for the UK and EU to agree a transition deal from 31 March 2019, so that any disruption to flights and British consumer summer holidays in 2019 can be avoided.”
Ryanair also released December traffic statistics as follows:
December | 2017 | 2018 (LF) | Growth |
Total | 9.3m | 10.3m (95%) | +12% |
Ryanair | 9.3m | 10.0m (95%) | +9% |
Laudamotion | - | 0.3m (93%) | - |
Rolling Annual | 128.9m | 139.2m (96%) | +8% |
Ryanair operated over 57,000 scheduled flights in December with over 81% arriving on time, delivering the best punctuality of any major EU airline.