Ryanair receive two new 737s

An Atlantic storm that passed through Ireland Saturday played it's role in the delivery of the latest Ryanair aircraft. The two latest aircraft are EI-DYX, msn 37517, hex code 4CA6FB and EI-DYW, msn 33635, hex code 4CA6AA. Since Ryanair 737s started receiving ETOPS certification the aircraft have flown Boeing Field direct to Dublin but in yesterday's case the aircraft had planned Boeing - Keflavik - Dublin. 

Before lunch time on Saturday the winds in Ireland picked up with Shannon showing a direction of 180 degrees and gusts hitting 50kts. This forced two Ryanair flights inbound to Shannon to divert to Dublin  - RYR1175 operated by EI-DCF and RYR1147 operated by EI-CSW. By 14.00 hrs the wind at Shannon had swung around to 240 degrees, straight down the middle but Dublin had gone out of limits for some aircraft which resulted in the weekly Air France Cargo flight, AFR6547 operated by B747 F-GIUC diverting from Dublin to Shannon.

Only one of the Ryanair deliveries made it into Dublin - EI-DYW with EI-DYX diverting to Shannon where it landed at 16.49, closely followed by Austrian Airlines flight 9733 operated by B737 OE-LNT which was also a weather diversion from Dublin. 

Pictured above, EI-DYX taxis onto R24 in Shannon for it's positioning flight ot Dublin , Sunday morning. 

Ryanair calls on EU to block Austrian aid

Ryanair today called on the EU to block the €500m state aid package which the Austrian government proposes giving to Lufthansa as part of the latters purchase of the government's 42% stakeholding in Austrian Airlines.

Ryanair's Director of Regulatory and Legal Affairs Jim Callaghan said "The Austrian Government is so desperate to get rid of its national airline that it agreed to pay Lufthansa €500m to take over the Government’s 42% stake in the airline! This is in clear violation of the EU State aid rules, as no private investor would pay €500m to dispose of its stake in a virtually bankrupt company. We do not see private owners of the majority stake in Austrian Airlines queuing up to contribute hundreds of millions of euros to dispose of their shares to Lufthansa, so this is yet another case of blatant State aid to yet another EU flag carrier airline."