11 ROUTES FROM STOCKHOLM

Ryanair Holdings PLC
16 September 2004


                  RYANAIR EXPANDS TO 11 ROUTES FROM STOCKHOLM
                        $60M INVESTMENT - 1 NEW AIRCRAFT
               3 NEW EUROPEAN ROUTES TO GERMANY - LATVIA - SPAIN

Ryanair, Europe's No.1 low fares airline, today (Thursday, 16th September 2004)
announced it is to increase the size of its base at Stockholm Skavsta to 4
Boeing 737-800 aircraft, in a further investment of $60M, and also announced 3
new European routes from Stockholm Skavsta to Dusseldorf Niederrhein (Germany),
Barcelona Girona (Spain) and Riga (Latvia).

Ryanair, which is already Sweden's favourite low fares airline, began flying
from Stockholm Skavsta in June 1997, and has already 8 low cost international
routes. This year Sweden will have over 2.5M Ryanair passengers, saving €250M on
the high fares of SAS.

Announcing the new routes and additional aircraft in Stockholm today, Ryanair's
CEO, Michael O'Leary said:

        'We opened our Stockholm Skavsta base in April 2003, and already Ryanair
        is the second biggest carrier of European traffic in Sweden, and the
        market leader from Stockholm, Goteborg and Malmo to London. Today, we
        are increasing the size of our aircraft base with another brand new
        Boeing 737-800 aircraft, bringing the total investment by Ryanair at
        Skavsta to $240M.

        'Also today, in addition to our 8 low cost routes from Skavsta, Ryanair
        is announcing THREE NEW ROUTES from Stockholm to Dusseldorf, Barcelona
        Girona and Riga. These fantastic new destinations, which are on sale
        right now at www.ryanair.com from an incredible SEK 199! (inc. taxes)
        will start on 21st February 2005. We would urge passengers wishing to
        grab a bargain to these great destinations to book now, as demand will
        be huge!'

STOCKHOLM SKAVSTA TO:

                   FARE (from*)       FREQUENCY            START DATE
BARCELONA            SEK 299            DAILY              21st FEB 05
(GIRONA)

DUSSELDORF           SEK 199            DAILY              21st FEB 05
(NIEDERRHEIN)

RIGA                 SEK 199            DAILY              21st FEB 05

*Inc Taxes

Ends.                          Thursday, 16th September 2004

For further information:

Paul Fitzsimmons - Ryanair     Pauline McAlester - Murray Consultants

Tel: [phone]          Tel: [phone]



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