Ryanair has chosen Madrid as the site of its new €100 million pilot and cabin crew training centre, the largest aviation training centre in southern Europe. With Ryanair’s new training centre, which will train up to 250 aviation professionals a day, Ryanair will bring the latest technology to Madrid, including six Boeing 737 flight simulators, and create more than 150 new jobs for pilot and cabin crew trainers, as well as shift and administration staff. Ryanair continues to boost its investment in Madrid, where the airline already has the largest IT laboratory located in the city centre, employing more than 250 professionals.
This significant investment demonstrates Ryanair’s commitment to Madrid and its continued confidence in the Spanish market, which is a direct result of the airline’s close working relationships with key stakeholders in Spain. Ryanair is the No. 1 airline in Spain, operating more than 545 routes this winter and carrying more than 54 million passengers a year to/from Spain on its fleet of 76 aircraft based in Spain (US$7.6 billion investment), boosting year-round connectivity and inbound tourism, which supports more than 300,000 jobs in Spain and contributes more than €14.66 billion per year to Spanish GDP, equivalent to 1.2% of Spanish GDP.
Ryanair also announced its 23/24 winter schedule for Madrid with 52 routes, including four new attractive routes to Aqaba, Essaouira, Liverpool and Treviso, as well as increased frequencies on 15 other routes for winter getaways, including Amman, Birmingham, Krakow, Prague and Rome. This wide and varied schedule is supported by Ryanair’s 14 aircraft based in Madrid – a US$1.4 billion investment that supports more than 5,400 local jobs – and offers customers/visitors to Madrid even more route choice at the lowest fares when booking their winter holidays and reaffirms Ryanair’s continued commitment to invest and grow in the Spanish market. (£1.00 = €1.15 / US$1.22 at time of publication).
