Ryanair Switches Shannon Rout

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Ryanair Holdings PLC

16 December 2009

 



Ryanair switches Alicante and Faro routes from Shannon 

to Kerry and Knock

Ryanair, the world's favourite airline, today (16th Dec 09) announced that it will switch its Alicante and Faro routes from Shannon Airport to Kerry and Knock from 30th March after Shannon Airport refused Ryanair's offer to keep four based aircraft in Shannon. As a result Ryanair's Shannon base will be reduced to one aircraft from 28th March 2010.

Ryanair's new Kerry and Knock routes, which go on sale on www.ryanair.com tomorrow, have been made possible thanks to lower costs at these airports compared to high cost Shannon.

Ryanair celebrated its new routes by releasing 1m €5 seats for travel Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays on over 500 routes across its European network in January. These €5 seats are available for booking on www.ryanair.com until midnight Thursday (17th Dec).

Ryanair's Stephen McNamara said:

"Ryanair is pleased to announce new Kerry and Knock routes to/from Alicante and Faro from summer 2010. These routes switch directly from Shannon Airport because of Shannon's high costs.

"As commercially run airports, Kerry and Knock realise that airports and airlines must work together to reduce the cost of travel to Ireland as the Irish Government's suicidal €10 tourist tax continues to collapse Irish traffic and tourism.  Shannon Airport will suffer steep traffic declines in 2010 because they prefer to impose high charges which render Shannon uncompetitive for visitors to the West of Ireland".

Ends.                                      Wednesday, 16th December 2009

For further information                

Please contact:            

Stephen McNamara                                 Pauline McAlester

Ryanair Ltd                                               Murray Consultants

Tel: [phone]                                 Tel. [phone]

 

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