Ryanair UK


Ryanair UK is the UK subsidiary of the low-cost Irish airline group Ryanair Holdings, and a sister airline to Ryanair, Buzz, Malta Air and Lauda. It is headquartered at London Stansted Airport. It commenced operations in March 2019.

History

Ryanair UK was founded on 30 May 1985 as Dawndell Limited and was renamed Ryan Air UK Limited on 27 June 1985. Since 1 November 1995 the company is called Ryanair UK Limited.
In a statement dated 2 January 2018, Ryanair announced that its subsidiary Ryanair UK filed an application with the Civil Aviation Authority for an air operator's certificate on 21 December 2017, in anticipation of a potential "hard Brexit". Its first Boeing 737-800, registered as G-RUKA, was transferred to Ryanair UK in December 2018. The airline received an air operator's certificate from the Civil Aviation Authority on 3 January 2019 and commenced operations on behalf of Ryanair on 12 March 2019.

Fleet

As of December 2018, the Ryanair UK fleet consists of the following aircraft:

AircraftIn serviceOrdersPassengers
Boeing 737-80014189
Total1