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Makroregion południowy; Małopolskie; Miasto Kraków
Location of affected unit(s)
Krakow
Sector
Transportation / Storage 51 - Air transport 51.1 - Passenger air transport 51.10 - Passenger air transport
420 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
25 April 2022
Employment effect (start)
25 April 2022
Foreseen end date
22 June 2022
Description
Irish low-cost airline Ryanair will hire 420 new employees at Krakow Airport in Poland. New positions will be for pilots, crew, and ground service. The announcement follows the company's commitment to invest $ 800 million and the plan to create 10 new Krakow-based routes for the summer of 2022. In total, it will operate 73 routes.
Ryanair has been operating in Poland since 2005. Currently, it is the largest carrier in Poland in terms of the number of passengers. It operates flights from 12 Polish airports.
Previous business expansions were recorded in the ERM database in 2018, with 200 new jobs (Ryanair-2018-PL): in 2017, with 375 new jobs in Poznań (Ryanair-2017-PL): in 2016, with 120 new jobs in Wrocław (Ryanair-2016-PL).
Eurofound (2022), Ryanair, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 106683, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/106683.