Cable & Wirless, Lufthansa Technik win Ryanair contracts

Ryanair has awarded a 5 year contract worth €15m to Cable & Wireless for management of the airline's IT and communications network across 180 airports in 26 countries. As part of the deal C&W will provide an 'always on' infrastructure for management of Ryanair's European telecoms network including airports, bases, data centers and headquarters. The deal also covers the customer side interface from booking through to check in with the airline's touch screen check in kiosks being connected via the system.
Ryanair's head of IT, Eric Neville commented that “Ryanair benefits from commercial flexibility across the entire solution, providing us the capacity to grow our passenger numbers to 67 million in 2010. We’ve worked with Cable & Wireless for a number of years now, and it has consistently delivered the excellent service we require. Its innovation, expertise and ability to service our network enabled the company to win this new contract."


In Belgium, Lufthansa Technik is to add a line maintenance station at Charleroi to support a new contract with Ryanair. Under the terms of the deal, LHT will cater for up to eight B737-800 aircraft including call out, night stop services and defect rectification.