Boeing and Ryanair have marked the latest milestone in their partnership, with the delivery of the airline’s 400th Next-Generation 737-800. The Irish low-cost carrier operates the largest fleet of Next-Generation 737-800s in the world. “The Boeing 737-800 aircraft, with its industry leading technical reliability and seating capacity, has been the foundation upon which our successful and safe growth has been built upon, since we took our first delivery in March 1999,” said Ryanair chief operations officer, Michael Hickey.

Ryanair will open a new base at Vilnius Airport from 30th October, with 2 aircraft (an investment of $200m), as Ryanair grows its Vilnius traffic by 16%.

Ryanair has launched its biggest ever Newcastle winter schedule, with two new routes to Lanzarote and Tenerife, a new winter service to Malaga, and more flights to Alicante and Dublin, with further growth planned.

Ryanair has called for voters in the UK to choose to remain in the European Union in a referendum on June 23rd. The Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair, which employs over 3,000 people across its 13 airport bases, and carries over 35 million customers between the UK and Europe each year, confirmed that it will actively campaign for a ‘Yes’ vote.

Ryanair is launching a new route from London Stansted to Hamburg (Ryanair’s newest base), which will operate twice daily from the start of November, as part of its winter 2016 schedule.

Ryanair has released January traffic statistics revealing traffic grew 25 per cent to 7.5 million customers, when compared to last year, while load factors rose five per cent to points to 88 per cent. At the same time low-cost rival easyJet said it carried 4,276,821 in January, up 6.3 per cent from last year.