Ryanair shares take a significant dive of 12.5% at the market's opening bell. The airline' Writes down its profits, citing reduced summer fares and raising concerns about continued depression in prices as factors behind the decline. This announcement also had an impact on competitors like British Airways, parent company IAG, which saw a 3.3% drop within the FTSE 100 index. The situation is more dire for EasyJet, now experiencing a decrease of over 7%, leaving it at the bottom of major indices.
The world economy grapples with repercussions from an IT outage affecting critical services across various industries. The issue traces back to a security update failure by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, which disrupted operations in hospitals, businesses, banks, and airline companies globally last week.
In response, CrowdStrike has continued its efforts to restore the affected systems, with an emphasis on speeding up the process of bringing all impacted devices back online. Despite their apologies for the disruption caused by this incident, full recovery could take weeks, which may further affect the company's US-listed shares that have already fallen 11%.
Simultaneously, Ryanair has reported a substantial reduction in its Q1 profits, a decline of nearly 46%, as it grapples with lower passenger fares. In comparison to last year, there was an average fare decrease of 15% for the quarter ending June. CEO Michael O'Leary expressed concerns that prices are likely to remain low in Q2 as well:
"Although demand is robust during this period, pricing remains weaker than anticipated," said O'Leary. "We now project second-quarter fares to be significantly lower than those seen last summer."
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