Ryanair's net profit more than doubled in its April-June quarter on higher-than-expected last-minute fares and the timing of the Easter holidays, while bookings for rest of the summer are "robust", Europe's largest low-cost carrier said on Monday.

Ryanair’s chief executive has said the low-cost carrier could register some new aircraft in the UK to avoid any tariffs that the EU might levy on deliveries from the US’s Boeing in the global trade war.