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Ryanair Holdings is considering prolonging its use of the B737-800 workhouse due to delayed B737-8-200 deliveries, Chief Executive Michael O'Leary said during the group's half-yearly earnings call.

"We're growing faster than we originally thought we would at this time because we're not retiring older aircraft. In fact, one of the aircraft we returned off an operating lease two years ago has now been offered back to us at a very significant discount. And we will opportunistically add B737NGs in ones and twos where there's a financial incentive to do so," he said.

The ch-aviation fleets advanced module shows that the LCC owns its entire fleet of one B737-700, 409 B737-800s, and seventy-eight B737-8-200s operated across its four AOCs (Ryanair, Ryanair UK, Buzz (Poland), and Malta Air). However, the twenty-nine A320-200s operated by Lauda Europe are all leased.

O'Leary stressed that the MAX 200 delivery delays were hampering the LCC's ambitious post-COVID growth plans. The group was due to take a further 21 of the type...