Company profile
SEC EDGAR ↗- Industry
- Air Transportation, Scheduled
- Listed
- Nasdaq: RYAAY
- Headquarters
- County Dublin Irelan
- Fiscal year end
- Mar 31
Financials
FY2025- Revenue
- €13.9B
- Net income
- €1.61B
- Total assets
- €17.5B
Latest full fiscal year from SEC filings (20-F) — SEC EDGAR ↗. Stratrix is a strategy publication, not a real-time financial data service.
The analyses
The Loss Leader · Business Model
Ryanair's Cheap Seat Is a Volume Pump: Fares Are 68% of Revenue and Cover Their Costs
The legend says Ryanair gives away the seat and makes its money on bags and fees. The filings say otherwise: scheduled fares are 68% of revenue and cover their costs. The cheap fare isn't a loss leader - it's a volume pump, and ancillary is the shock absorber.
7 min
The Money Machine · Business Model
Ryanair Cut Fares 7% on Purpose. The Cheap Seat Was Never the Product.
In FY25 Ryanair deliberately cut average fares 7% to push traffic past 200m passengers - while ancillary revenue climbed to €4.72bn, about 34% of the total. The fare isn't the business. It's the bait.
7 min
The Doctrine · People & Control
Ryanair Is Rude on Purpose. The Rudeness Is a Line on the P&L.
Ryanair's abrasive brand looks like personality. It's actually a cost substitution — controversy buys earned media so the airline doesn't have to. But in 2013, after two profit warnings, O'Leary launched 'Always Getting Better.' The act has limits.
8 min