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Gemini gets to juggle crews, forecasts, and maintenance while AWS keeps its seat
Ryanair has signed a five-year agreement with Google Cloud covering AI, productivity tools and multi-cloud infrastructure, just weeks after renewing its deal with rival AWS for another five years.The Irish budget airline says it will deploy Google Workspace and Google Cloud services across its 35,000-strong workforce as it pursues a target of 300 million passengers a year by 2034.We asked how much this deal is worth, but Google declined to say and Ryanair did not respond.
The rollout includes the Mountain View firm's Gemini Enterprise agentic AI platform, which Ryanair intends to use to automate some decision-making, optimize flight crew logistics, and improve staff productivity. The airline will also use Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve to refine algorithms and WeatherNext for forecasting and maintenance planning.
Ryanair renewed its agreement with AWS for another five years on July 27, making AWS and Google Cloud the two pillars of what the airline itself calls its dual-cloud resilience strategy.Google says the dual-cloud setup will allow critical systems to switch between providers if one suffers an outage, helping keep flight operations, and customer services running.
