Ryanair has launched a partnership with Vodafone Ireland, under which the tele-phony firm will support the airline’s communications and IT needs across Europe, including its ticketing, check-in, ground crew, inflight crew and pilot systems.
Vodafone will provide local and wide area network access, telephony, fixed line and mobile 3G and 4G functionality across Ryanair’s 189 locations in Europe and North Africa, while the partnership will also allow the roll-out of electronic flight bags (iPads in the flight deck rather than traditional files), creating paperless cockpits as well as a new inflight sales system.