Ryanair to create 200 technology jobs

Ryanair announced it is creating 200 technology jobs in Dublin as the airline moves to improve its digital presence.

The announcement followed traffic figures which showed that Ryanair had seen its monthly traffic for March fall by 200,000 passengers. The low-cost airline said the date that Easter fell on had had an impact.

Despite the fall in monthly figures the airline is confident that, with the help of its new digital platform and new bases, traffic will grow from 81.5m
to over 84m passengers.

Key to the airline’s ability to grow its routes to and from Ireland has been the Government’s decision to scrap the travel tax.

Ryanair chairman David Bonderman said that the scrapping of the travel tax had created 21 new routes.

“These are exciting times as we return to strong traffic growth to/from Ireland as a direct result of the Irish Government’s foresighted decision to scrap the travel tax from 1 April. The repeal of this tax has directly led Ryanair to open 21 new routes to Ireland in 2014, as well as increasing frequencies on over 30 other routes, in an expansion that will add more than 1.1m passengers at Dublin, Shannon and Knock airports, and will create over 1,000 new jobs in Irish tourism in 2014,” he said.

Mr Bonderman said the delivery of 175 new planes from Boeing will provide Ryanair with the flexibility to expand into new routes.

“We look forward to welcoming these 200 new people to Ryanair’s new Dublin office campus, where they will join a team which continues to show that Ireland leads the world airline industry and will continue to do so for years to come,” he said.

Speaking at the opening of Ryanair’s new office campus, Taoiseach Enda Kenny said tourism was a priority for the Government as it helped to create jobs.

“We have targeted tourism as a key driver of economic recovery and I am pleased to say budgetary measures such as the 9% Vat rate and the more recent cutting of the travel tax to zero have been welcomed by the industry which responded by delivering new jobs and routes,” he said.