Aircraft Delivery

Ryanair Holdings PLC
09 January 2003







     RYANAIR MAKES IT A NIFTY 50 WITH LATEST AIRCRAFT DELIVERY FROM BOEING.




Ryanair, Europe's only low fares airline, today (9th January 2003) celebrated
the arrival of its 50th aircraft - a 189-seat Boeing 737-800.

The delivery of the new aircraft brings the fleet of new 737-800's to 29, in
addition to 21 Boeing 737-200's.

Welcoming today's delivery, Ryanair's Head of Communications, Paul Fitzsimmons,
said:

'The 49th and 50th aircraft, are the first 2 of Ryanair's new order of 100 firm
& 50 optioned Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft.

The remainder are due over the next 8 years, and will treble the fleet in line
with our plans to treble our passenger numbers from 15 million to 45 million per
year, making Ryanair Europe's largest scheduled Airline.

These two 189-seat Boeing 737-800's will operate from Ryanair's new Italian base
in Milan Bergamo. Ryanair will launch new routes from the base, starting 6th
February, to London, Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt-Hahn, Hamburg and Girona.'

Ends                    Thursday 9th January 2003

For further information

please contact;

Paul Fitzsimmons, Ryanair, Tel. [phone]

Pauline McAlester, Murray Consultants, Tel. [phone]














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