More routes for Ryanair
Ryanair has announced that it is boosting its flights to Europe. It will add four new Boeing 737-800 aircraft (12 in total) and open 6 new routes (a total of 57) from its Brussels (Charleroi) base to Ibiza, Kaunas, Krakow, Nador, Seville and Zadar from March 2010. This brings Ryanair’s investment in Brussels (Charleroi) to twelve aircraft worth over $800million.
These six new routes along with increased frequencies on 14 other routes will see Ryanair’s annual traffic at Brussels (Charleroi) rise to over 4million. Providing 4,000 local jobs. As part of the expansion, Ryanair also announced 2 new routes from Dusseldorf (Weeze) to Lappeenranta, Finland, and Szczecin in Poland. These commence from next March. This will fund 3,000 jobs at Weeze.
Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary said: “Belgian and German consumers and visitors can beat the recession by choosing Ryanair’s guaranteed lowest fares and no fuel surcharges to exciting destinations all over Europe.”
