Ryanair and Vodafone team up in new partnership

Vodafone Ireland has signed an agreement with Ryanair to provide communications and IT solutions for the airline.

Under the deal Vodafone will support ticketing, check-in, ground crews, in-flight crews and pilots with telephony, fixed line and mobile 3G and 4G functionality across Ryanair’s 189 locations in Europe and North Africa.

The partnership will also see the roll-out of electronic flight bags with Ryanair ditching paper and bringing in iPads for use in flight decks. Vodafone is also providing support for on-board electronic point of sale (EPOS) devices used for in-flight credit card sales.

“As part of our ‘Always Getting Better’ improvement programme, we’re continuing to enhance the Ryanair experience for our 90 million annual customers, and this partnership with Vodafone will provide us with the technical support to allow us to make these improvements quickly and seamlessly, including the introduction of paperless cockpits and a swifter in-flight sales system,” said Ryanair’s chief technology officer John Hurley.