30 million euro investment and 500 jobs for the Andalucia region.
Ryanair opened its newly expanded maintenance facility at Seville Airport, delivering further investment in the region and creating 250 high-skilled jobs, including licensed engineers, mechanics and support staff – bringing Ryanair’s local headcount to 500 by 2023.
Ryanair has invested over 30 million euros in this state-of-art 5-bay maintenance facility (20,000m2) since it first opened in 2019. The Seville Line Maintenance station is one of the most environmentally friendly facilities in the world and will maintain a large portion of Ryanair’s fleet of aircraft, which will grow to 600 aircraft by 2026.
With over 2,500 engineers across Europe, Ryanair Line Maintenance Engineering, is responsible for all aircraft maintenance activities, ensuring that Ryanair aircraft take our customers to their destination, safely and on time.
Ryanair has carried over 22 million customers to/from Seville since its operations began in 2003 and has played a vital role in Seville and Andalucía’s traffic and tourism recovery post C-19. Ryanair has also announced its full S’22 schedule from/to the Seville-San Pablo airport, delivering 53 routes, including 7 new summer routes to/from Agadir, Billund, Frankfurt, Oujda, Tenerife, Tétouan, Turin, further supporting the recovery of the tourism industry and enhancing the region’s connectivity.
Ryanair’s Eddie Wilson said: “As the largest airline in Spain, Ryanair is delighted to open its expanded maintenance centre in Seville, which brings its total investment to 30m euros and 500 jobs, underlining Ryanair’s ongoing commitment to Spain and the Andalucía region. This state-of-the-art facility is a world class environmentally friendly facility as Ryanair continue to lower CO2 emissions as Europe’s greenest airline.
Ryanair creates opportunities for highly skilled engineering jobs, with our industry leading rosters and the youngest fleet in Europe. Seville is an ideal location with endless opportunities to attract, train and employ local talent to support this facility.
With this state-of-art facility and 4 based aircraft for S22 delivering 53 routes to 13 countries, Ryanair is supporting and positioning Seville for a strong recovery, and we look forward to further growing local tourism, traffic and jobs.”
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