{"id":257108,"date":"2026-01-22T01:31:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/257108\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T01:31:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:31:43","slug":"ryanair-ceo-michael-oleary-says-he-hopes-chinas-comac-becomes-viable-jet-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/257108\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair CEO Michael O\u2019Leary says he hopes China\u2019s Comac becomes viable jet option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Airline boss keeping tabs on the plane-maker in the hopes it can ramp up capacity and offer competition to Boeing and Airbus\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael O\u2019Leary said Comac planes are currently too small. Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/M Ryanair press 009.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Michael O\u2019Leary said Comac planes are currently too small. Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ryanair boss Michael O\u2019Leary said that within another decade he hopes China\u2019s state-owned plane-maker Comac will be a viable option alongside Boeing and Airbus for buying aircraft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">However, he pointed out that Comac remains years away from having an aircraft that would be a fit for the Ryanair fleet and being able to ramp up production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Airline boss keeping tabs on the plane-maker in the hopes it can ramp up capacity and offer competition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12495,72,61,60,10099,10726,1899],"class_list":["post-257108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-boeing","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-john-mulligan","tag-michael-oleary","tag-ryanair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}