Why does Ryanair not fly to America?

The high cost of operating in the US includes taxes, customs, fees and other charges which adds a significant cost to operating flights.At the same time, Ryanair also faces a challenge of a shortage of aircraft that meet the current U.S. aviation regulations.



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Ryanair has 5 domestic destinations and 227 international destinations in 39 countries: Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, ...

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Very easily. The shortest commercially flown transatlantic crossing is from Recife, Brazil, to Dakar, Senegal, which is 1,975 miles. The range of a 737–800 (per Wikipedia) is 2,935 miles. It's even just possible over the North Atlantic in one hop.

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If you act fast, you can make changes without having to pay any fees. Ryanair offers a 24-hour grace period² where you can change dates and times (and reverse the routing destinations if you accidentally get your airport arrivals and departures the wrong way around) free of charge.

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They don't offer any in-flight amenities like meals or entertainment, which helps keep the cost down. Secondly, Ryanair takes advantage of secondary airports which tend to be cheaper than the bigger, main airports. Finally, Ryanair is a low cost carrier that charges for extras like drinks, snacks, or checked baggage.

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And up to 40 per cent of people experience some form of fear in the air. Plenty of passengers resort to rituals to ease this phobia such as lucky seat numbers, touching the outside of the plane or wearing specific clothing items. To avoid superstitious seat swaps, many airlines skip rows 13 and 17.

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The first is that pilots are actually flying more slowly—to save fuel. jetBlue and Ryanair are just two examples of airlines that asked its pilots to fly slower—jetBlue is thought to have saved $13.6 million a year by flying two minutes more slowly during each hour of air time since 2008.

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The Loganair Westray to Papa Westray route is the shortest scheduled passenger flight in the world. Flights on the route are scheduled for one and a half minutes, and actual flying time is closer to one minute. The record for the fastest flight is 53 seconds.

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