New Route

Ryanair Holdings PLC
27 February 2002



  Ryanair annouces summer schedule AND A NEW route FROM DUBLIN to aberdeen



Ryanair, Europe's largest low fares airline today (27th February) announced
details of its 2002 Summer Schedule, which will see over 3 million low fare
seats on offer from Dublin.


The airline also announced the commencement of a new daily service from Dublin
to Aberdeen from the 4th April. This marks the first direct link between Dublin
and the North East of Scotland and brings Ryanair's total UK routes from Dublin
to 14.


Speaking at the launch in Dublin today, Ryanair's Head of Communications, Enda
O'Toole said:


'Ryanair is once again providing unbeatable value for Irish consumers to
Britain, Paris and Brussels this year. We are particularly pleased to launch our
new daily service to Aberdeen, which strengthens our position as the leading low
fares carrier in Scotland and also establishes the first direct link between
Dublin and the North East of Scotland. Unfortunately, due to the inane policies
of Aer Rianta and our inept Minister for Public Enterprise, Ryanair will not be
offering any new European routes to Irish consumers from Dublin this year
despite the fact that it has already launched 17 successful routes from London
and Germany this year.'


'Ryanair continues to deliver the lowest fares on every route we operate and our
Irish and UK consumers particularly appreciate this as evidenced by the fact
that Ryanair is now the largest operator on the Dublin/London market, ahead of
Aer Lingus and holds the largest market share on every UK provincial route that
it fly's in competition with Aer Lingus or any other carrier. Ryanair's
unbeatable value continues to attract more and more passengers at lower and
lower fares throughout Europe, which last year saved consumers over €1.5bn.'

ENDS.                                             Wednesday, 27th February 2002

For further information
Please contact;           Enda O'Toole, Ryanair, Tel. [phone]
                          Pauline McAlester, Murray Consultants, Tel. [phone]






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