SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
Report of Foreign Private Issuer
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For the
month of September 2025
RYANAIR HOLDINGS PLC
(Translation
of registrant's name into English)
c/o Ryanair Ltd Corporate Head Office
Dublin Airport
County Dublin Ireland
(Address
of principal executive offices)
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RYANAIR
WILL NOT RESTART TEL AVIV FLIGHTS, AS BEN GURION AIRPORT REFUSES TO
CONFIRM S26 SLOTS, OR AVAILABILITY OF LOW-COST TERMINAL
1
RYANAIR WILL RESTART 22 LOW-FARE ROUTES ONLY WHEN T1 AVAILABILITY
AND S26 SLOTS ARE CONFIRMED
Ryanair,
Europe's No.1 airline, today (Tues, 30 Sept) announced it will not
restart low-fare flights this winter to/from Tel Aviv (a loss of 1m
seats and 22 routes), due to Ben Gurion Airport's refusal to
confirm Ryanair's historic slots for S26 (summer schedules are now
on sale) and their refusal to confirm that low-cost T1 will remain
open during future security issues.
Ryanair's
low-fare Tel Aviv services were repeatedly disrupted this summer,
due to security concerns over Israeli airspace and Tel Aviv
Airport's repeated decisions (3 times) to close the low-cost T1 and
force Ryanair into high-cost
T3. Low-fare seats that were sold by Ryanair on the basis of
low-cost T1 facilities were rendered loss making, due to the high
costs in T3.
Ryanair
sincerely regrets that it cannot launch its winter schedule to Tel
Aviv, which would offer 22 low-fare routes (which are loss-making
in the winter) without the certainty that it can continue to
operate these flights for S26 (S26 schedules are already on sale).
Despite protecting these historic slots during Covid and previous
security disruptions in Israel, Tel Aviv Airport have refused in
written correspondence to confirm Ryanair's S26 slots, or to
confirm that it will in future keep the low-cost T1 open (a
facility that it has repeatedly closed) which would avoid forcing
low-fare airlines, like Ryanair, into the high-cost T3 facility,
while demanding that Ryanair pay the higher costs of T3. Ryanair
will no longer accept these higher costs, when T1 is being closed
solely for the convenience of Tel Aviv Airport.
A Ryanair spokesperson said:
"We are fed up having our low-fare flights repeatedly messed around
by Ben Gurion Airport. It is absurd that they refused to confirm
our summer 2026 slots, when summer 2026 schedules are already on
sale. We appreciate that many airlines - including Ryanair -
cancelled their flights to/from Tel Aviv this summer, but only
because it was unsafe to operate there. We are not willing to
restart loss-making flights to/from Tel Aviv for the winter season,
without the certainty that our summer 2026 historic slots have been
confirmed. It is also unacceptable to Ryanair and our low-fare,
price sensitive passengers, that our growth at Tel Aviv Airport is
dependent upon the availability of the low-cost T1 facility.
However, Tel Aviv Airport keeps closing this facility for its own
convenience, forcing Ryanair, and other low-cost airlines, into the
more expensive T3 - where we do not want to be - but they refuse to
honour the low-cost agreement, which T1 facilities provide. We have
no difficulty working with Tel Aviv Airport to temporarily move to
T3 - if that suits the needs and convenience of Ben
Gurion
Airport - but these services should continue to be costed at the T1
rates, and not at the T3 rates. Ryanair has sold thousands of
low-fare seats, which are contingent upon the low-cost facilities
in T1 remaining open and available.
Until such time as Ben Gurion Airport confirm our historic S26
slots, and confirm that they will in future keep T1 open, we will
not restart low-fare flights to/from Tel Aviv this winter. We
regret this means that Tel Aviv will no longer have access to
Ryanair's much lower fares, or to the 22 routes we operated last
winter, but until such time as Tel Aviv are willing to honour their
low-cost agreements with Ryanair, we are unwilling to restart
flights there. Should Ben Gurion wish to confirm our summer 2026
slots and confirm that they will honour our low-cost T1 agreement,
then we will look forward to returning to Tel Aviv with Ryanair's
services, offering 22 routes at fares which no other airline in Tel
Aviv can match, or compete with."
ENDS
For further info
please contact: Ryanair Press
Office
T: +353-1-9451799
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf
by the undersigned, hereunto duly authorized.
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RYANAIR
HOLDINGS PLC
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Date: 30
September, 2025
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By:___/s/
Juliusz Komorek____
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Juliusz
Komorek
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Company
Secretary
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