27 more 738s for Ryanair

pclancy · 31-05-2007 11:10am #1

Source RTE...

Ryanair orders 27 new Boeing planes
Thursday, 31 May 2007 11:52
Ryanair has bought 27 more Boeing 737-800s valued at $1.9bn.

This brings Ryanair's total firm orders for B737-800s to 308 and total fleet size (including planned disposals) to 262 by 2012.

The new aircraft will be fitted with Boeing blended winglets, which will further reduce fuel burn and CO2 emissions, the airline said.

AdvertisementRyanair shares were trading up nine cent at €5.30 in Dublin on the ISEQ late this morning.

Good news for Ryanair and Boeing, Id love to know how much he managed to get off the list price though, seems Ryanair buy them for around $70m what would they normally be I wonder?

m_stan · 31-05-2007 11:18am

pclancy wrote:

... 27 more Boeing 737-800s valued at $1.9bn....

... seems Ryanair buy them for around $70m what would they normally be I wonder?

The 'valued at' is based on the list price which is 66 - 75m USD. Ryanair will be paying significantly less that that due to the large order, so the $1.9bn is therefore considerably off what they are actually forking out.

You got to hand it to them. They know what they are at.

pclancy · 31-05-2007 11:48am

Ah yeah he's a mean businessman at the Boeing table im sure...still his orders placed during the slump after 9/11 when everyone else was cancelling must have been a godsend.

silverharp · 31-05-2007 1:38pm

At the risk of sounding parochial, it's a pity that he is flying Europeans around on US built aircraft, maybe he would get less heat from the EU if he had Airbus lobbying for him (no hat he needs the help)

deaddonkey · 31-05-2007 4:40pm

i just wish they still had the 732s
planes that aren't noisey and dirty are no fun
732s are beautiful
to me, there's no real difference between a 738 and an a321
apart from the airbus being marginally uglier

i don't like ugly planes.

Davidth88 · 01-06-2007 6:37am

I was surprised by the inclusion of the piece about winglets ... I thought they were standard on the 737-800 or is this just spin to make them ( FR ) sound green

DeadDonkey , how anyone can call the 737 beautiful I don't know , I have always known them as 'Pigs' ! I suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

The -200s were seriously noisy/dirty, and OLD , weren't they all ex LH/TP etc ?

Perhaps we should start a thread on beautiful airliners. My vote, hmmmmmm
Concorde

, then maybe , and this is going to get people stirred , A321 but in the OLD BM colours only ( the dark blue )

FR are pretty cute thats for sure , bet they are getting a great price for these machines.

Silverharp... I agree about keeping money in the EU for sure.

pclancy · 01-06-2007 10:01am

I think Airbus just couldnt match the deals boeing had out on the table when MOL was replacing the 732s. Plus the cost of type rating pilots up to the 738 must have been tiny compared to training them on an airbus. To be honest I love both the a321s and the 738s, but thats because they were always my flyers of choice in flight sims over the years

In reality as a passenger theres not much difference, i do prefer the sound of the Boeings, EI's airbusses rattle an awfull lot on the ground and during takeoff...

oscarBravo · 01-06-2007 10:36am

One difference is that 738s taper earlier towards the front, making the seats in the first three or four rows slightly narrower.

deaddonkey · 01-06-2007 12:42pm

Davidth88 wrote:

DeadDonkey , how anyone can call the 737 beautiful I don't know , I have always known them as 'Pigs' ! I suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

The -200s were seriously noisy/dirty, and OLD , weren't they all ex LH/TP etc ?

i loved the old 200s, beautiful cockpits too
they were never an elegant shape, but they had something about them, i really liked them

the 800s look ok with the winglets i suppose, but the 200s were so... unconventional
maybe it's like my taste in women, short and stout and slightly weird does it for me

but the sound of the old 200s is something to behold, that throaty roar was awesome

Davidth88 · 01-06-2007 2:19pm

Deaddonkey we could start a whole new thread here:)

If you were into noise , remember the old 747-200 steaming down the runway fully loaded , a low pitched grrrrrrrrr noise that used to get me going !

Actually the LH 737's were ok with the shiny undersides.. ohh dear the double ententre's here are lethal !

Back on track , it's interesting how the two largest ' low cost carriers ' FR/EZ have gone different ways with EZ going totally Airbus and FR totally Boeing.