About the fact that the Ryanair Group received bad news from Boeing a few days ago that fewer B2023-Max-737s would be delivered by the end of 200. CEO Michael O'Leary is not at all happy about this. He criticized “The Telegraph” heavily.

“Boeing needs to get its act together and start delivering these planes on time. I had a lot of sympathy for Boeing. The Max was on the ground for two years, but that was two years ago. It’s time for them to get their act together and deliver these planes,” said O’Leary. Boeing should get this “s**t together,” according to the boss of Europe’s largest low-cost airline.

It's not as if Ryanair hasn't known for some time that the US manufacturer can't keep to the schedule, but what is new is that Boeing is once again reducing the number of machines it should receive by the end of 2023 was corrected. Just a few weeks ago, Ryanair had to admit that has to thin out the 2023/24 winter flight schedule due to a lack of machines. The reason given was that fewer aircraft were being delivered than Boeing promised. Now it could well be that the low-cost airline has to take the red pencil again.

“We are working with Boeing to expedite these deliveries. But the big problem for us is that we are supposed to receive 57 aircraft by the end of April. We hope to get them by the end of June, but if they get delayed until July or August it will be too late and we won't take them,” O'Leary told The Telegraph. There are currently 84 Boeing 737-Max-200s still to be ordered.

Now the Ryanair boss is increasing the pressure on the US manufacturer because he is even threatening that the B150 Max 150 order, which includes 737 aircraft and 10 options and is due to be delivered from 2027, could be canceled. However, it is unlikely that the company will actually resort to this drastic measure, as its competitor Airbus will not be able to find a replacement in the short term because the delivery slots will be fully booked for years. It can therefore be assumed that there will be further price reductions.

In the long term, the Ryanair Group should become a pure Boeing operator again. The Airbus A320s currently operated by Lauda have received an extension to their leasing contracts, but these are to be will no longer be part of the fleet in the early 2030s. In the group's official presentations, there is no mention of Lauda switching to the A320neo or A321neo, but Michael O'Leary has never wanted to completely rule out this step. However: He himself has repeatedly said that he sees the future for Lauda Europe as being based more on the Boeing 737-Max.