Ryanair Announce Expansion at

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Ryanair Holdings PLC

14 January 2009

 



Ryanair announces EXPANSION AT THREE BASES

NEW Aircraft, NEW routes AND PASSENGERS FOR Alicante, BRISTOL AND EDINBURGH

1MILLION €1 SEATS

Ryanair, Europe's largest low fares airline, announced today (Wednesday, 14th January 2009) that it will add new Boeing 737-800 aircraft at Alicante (up one to four) from June, Bristol (up two to four) from July and Edinburgh (up two to four) from March in an expansion which will bring four new routes to Alicante, 12 to Bristol and seven to Edinburgh with an investment of $350million.  

Ryanair's new Alicante routes will begin on 4th June to Derry and Knock while its flights to Wroclaw will begin on 5th June with Bristol commencing 3rd July. Ryanair's traffic at Alicante will increase to 2 million p.a. which will sustain 2,000 local jobs and deliver more than €200million in tourism revenues. 

Ryanair's new routes to/from Alicante, Barcelona, Cagliari, Eindhoven, Limoges, Malta, Montpellier, Perpignan, Rimini, Seville, Toulon and Trieste will increase Ryanair's traffic at Bristol to almost 1.6 million per annum which will sustain 1,600 local jobs and deliver over €180million in tourism revenues. 

Ryanair will commence seven new routes at Edinburgh to/from Carcassonne, Limoges, Leipzig (Altenburg), Malta, Poitiers, Rome and Zadar and increased frequencies to Alicante and Dusseldorf - Weeze from the end of March which will increase Ryanair's traffic at Edinburgh to almost 2 million p.a. which will sustain 2,000 local jobs and deliver more than €200million in tourism revenues for Edinburgh. 

Ryanair celebrated the announcement of these new aircraft, routes and increased traffic by releasing 1million €1 seats for travel across its European network in February and March which are available for booking on www.ryanair.com before midnight Monday 19th January.

Ryanair's Stephen McNamara said:

'Alicante, Bristol and Edinburgh today celebrate new aircraft and new routes. These go on sale from today and are sure to be popular this summer. Ryanair passengers can continue to beat the recession by flying at Ryanair's guaranteed lowest fares and no fuel surcharges to exciting destinations all over Europe. Ryanair's passengers will sustain thousands of local jobs and provide millions in tourism revenues at Alicante, Bristol and Edinburgh, while also snapping up Europe's guaranteed lowest fares and no fuel surcharges.

'To celebrate these new aircraft and routes Ryanair is offering 1 Million €1 seats for travel across Europe in February and March. These seats will be snapped up fast and are available for booking on www.ryanair.com before midnight Monday'.

Alicante to	Begin	Frequency
Bristol	3rd July	Daily
Derry	4th June	2 pw
Knock	4th June	2 pw
Wroclaw	5th June	2 pw

Bristol to	Begin	Frequency
Alicante	3rd July	Daily
Barcelona Reus	2nd July	3 pw
Cagliari	1st July	2 pw
Eindhoven	31st March	3 pw
Limoges	2nd July	3 pw
Malta	5th July	2 pw
Montpellier	2nd July	3 pw
Perpignan	3rd July	2 pw
Rimini	3rd July	2 pw
Seville	3rd July	2 pw
Toulon	2nd July	3 pw
Trieste	5th July	2 pw

Edinburgh to	Begin	Frequency
Carcassonne	31st March	3 pw
Leipzig	31st March	3 pw
Limoges	30th  March	2 pw
Malta	31st March	2 pw
Poitiers	1st April	2 pw
Rome	30th March	4 pw
Zadar	1st April	2 pw

Increased Frequencies

Edinburgh to	Begin	Frequency
Alicante	2nd April	↑ 1 to 5pw
Dusseldorf - Weeze	31st March	↑ 3 to 7pw

Ends.                                            Wednesday, 14th January 2009

For further information

Please contact:

Stephen McNamara                     Pauline McAlester

Ryanair                                         Murray Consultants 

Tel: [phone]                Tel: [phone]

 

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