Ryanair delays major order for planes

Ryanair, Europe’s biggest budget airline, does not expect to make its next big aircraft order before 2015, chief executive Michael O’Leary said yesterday.

The airline plans to order between 200 and 400 planes by the end of 2016 to fulfil its target of doubling its capacity to around 150m passengers per year from 76m in 2010, Mr O’Leary told journalists in Dublin.

“At some time in the next four or five years we will have a large order to make ... the working assumption would be between 200 and 400 aircraft.