{"id":438855,"date":"2026-05-26T17:53:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ryanair-debt-free-620-owned-boeing-737s\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T17:53:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:53:33","slug":"lower-fares-than-competitors-ryanair-is-now-debt-free-with-620-owned-737s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=438855","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Lower Fares Than Competitors&#8221;: Ryanair Is Now Debt-Free With 620 Owned 737s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ultra-low-cost carrier <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255010\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ryanair\/\"  >Ryanair<\/a><\/span> is celebrating becoming debt-free, <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.ryanair.com\/news\/ryanair-now-debt-free-as-last-e1-2-billion-bond-is-repaid-today\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >with the airline announcing today<\/a> (May 25) that the carrier has repaid its final \u20ac1.2 billion ($1.4 billion) bond. This will see the airline become effectively unencumbered, as it heads into the busy Northern Hemisphere summer season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Ryanair celebrates becoming debt-free, the airline&#8217;s CFO, Neil Sorahan, emphasizes the financial strength this carrier now holds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,693,476,120,1869,6639,1368,5346],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airline-debt","category-airlines","category-europe","category-ireland","category-michael-oleary","category-ryanair","category-ryanair-group"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438859,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438855\/revisions\/438859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}