Ryanair will consider taking aircraft to English subsidiary if tariffs are imposed, Michael O’Leary has said. The tactic wil only be introduced if threatened tariffs persist beyond the next series of aircraft delivered to Dublin.
Ryanair says that Boeing will have to pay any tariffs on the 29 delayed Boeing 737 aircraft arriving in winter for use next summer of 2026.
Ireland’s aviation industry is still hopeful that tariffs will not be imposed on Boeing aircraft, as has been threatened by EU negotiator Maroš Šefčovič.
In the long term, any lingering tariff troubles will prove problematic for Irish aviation, the biggest customer next to the USA itself for the Seattle based manufacturer.
- Ryanair have 300 Boeing 737 MAX 10 aircraft on order taking the airline to 2034.
- Aercap have 100 Boeing 737 MAX 8s on order, according to AerCap Holdings N.V.. They also have orders for five Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners,
- SMBC Aviation Capital has 81 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft
- Avolon has 40 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft on order
Michael O’Leary shared: We would be very surprised if the European imposed tariffs on commercial aircraft, given that Airbus exports much more wide-body long-haul aircraft to North American customers than North and Boeing goes to Europe. It couldn’t be ruled out. But ultimately, our deal with Boeing is a fixed price agreement. So the tariffs will be for Boeing to count not ours, but we would certainly work with Boeing to take deliveries into those economies or those countries where we would by working together with Boeing be able to take delivery of aircraft without any risk of tariffs, if that was England or somewhere else in Europe, we certainly have a look, and we will be work at Boeing on that.
We had agreed with Boeing that we would delay the last 29 the spring of 2026. They’ve asked us recently when we take them in the autumn of 2025, which doesn’t really suit us. We can’t deploy them during the winter, but we’re going to take them early so that at least we ensure and guarantee that we have those there for the summer of 2026. Obviously, that’s also a consideration shift there were if s, we could delay those deliveries, we’ll see air capital manufacturing. We can bring them forward or delay them as long as we get those aircraft in advance of summer 2026, we’d be in very good shape.
Certainly in relation to commercial aircraft, we would hope to see tariffs on nothing because tariffs are very bad for trade, they’re very bad for American consumers because ultimately while Trump talks about generating billions in revenue, the revenues be is just additional taxes coming from American consumers.
