New Ryanair training center in Portugal? It is “increasingly sure”, says CEO
The executive president of Ryanair said, this Wednesday, that it is “increasingly likely” that the new training center be installed in Portugal, and the company not in Spain, and gave a decision before the end of January.
“It is becoming increasingly stronger that Portugal is the winner, as always happens when the competitor is Spain”, said the executive chairman of the group, Michael O’Leary, in a virtual press conference, accompanied by the executive chairman of the company. of aviation, Eddie Wilson.
The location for the airline’s new training center has not yet been decided, but the official pointed out that it should be announced “before the end of January”🇧🇷
New training center in the Iberian Peninsula
At the beginning of September, Michael O’Leary said, in a meeting with journalists, in Dublin, Ireland, that Ryanair wants to open a new training center for pilots and cabin crew in the Iberian Peninsula and he added that Porto is one of the possibilities in consideration.
However, at the end of October, in Lisbon, Eddie Wilson advanced that the decision should be taken within the next three months and that Madrid presented itself as an option with the best connections.
The official also said that the company was analyzing the possibility of opening facilities in Lisbon for the information technology team, which it intended to strengthen.
On the same occasion, the mayor of Lisbon, Carlos Moedas, said that the city wants to be in the running for the location of Ryanair’s new innovation centre.
“I will do everything I can for Ryanair to establish itself here as well, another center of innovation in Lisbon, I think this is important, so we will try to be in this race”, said Carlos Moedas to journalists, on the sidelines of the 20. 1st anniversary of Ryanair, at the Lisbon School of Hospitality and Tourism, which was attended by several representatives of the sector.
The mayor underlined that competition for the location of the new center is “between cities across Europe” and defended that Lisbon “you have to create this attractiveness”🇧🇷