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| Ryanair’s Chief Executive, Michael O’Leary |
Ryanair announced today its 19th European base in Düsseldorf Weeze. From June 2007, Ryanair will invest €140m in two new aircraft and 10 routes. Ryanair will deliver 1 million passengers in its first full year, rising to 2 million p.a. from 2008. Europe’s largest low fares airline also today annoujnced 16 new routes across Europe.
These 2 million passengers will create 2,000 local jobs and enable passengers to fly for a fraction of the high fares charged at Düsseldorf International airport.
| Destination |
Frequency |
| Alghero |
3 x week |
| Alicante |
Daily |
| Barcelona |
Daily |
| Glasgow |
4 x week |
| London |
16 x week |
| Palma |
Daily |
| Rome |
4 x week |
| Shannon |
3 x week |
| Stockholm |
Daily |
| Venice |
4 x week |
Announcing Ryanair’s 19th European base, Michael O’Leary, CEO said:
"Ryanair’s 19th base will revolutionise travel in the Düsseldorf area by offering passengers real low fares to 10 exciting European destinations. Attempts by Dusseldorf International airport and its high fare airlines to prevent competition from Ryanair at Dusseldorf Weeze have failed.
"Ryanair will invest $140 million in Düsseldorf Weeze and will treble existing traffic to 2M passengers p.a. by offering more routes, lower fares and no fuel surcharges guaranteed. This will deliver a massive boost to tourism and create 2,000 new jobs in the Rheinland / Niederrhein area."
"We look forward to offering the 35M German and Dutch consumers who live within two hours of our new Dusseldorf Weeze base, unbeatable low fares for less than half the price of Lufthansa or Air Berlin.
"To celebrate the launch of these new routes Ryanair is offering 100,000 FREE seats from Dusseldorf Weeze for travel until the end of June. These bargain summer seats should be booked immediately on www.ryanair.com".
Ryanair also today announced 16 new routes across Europe and its 19th base in Dusseldorf. This expansion brings Europe’s lowest fares to four new airports, Alicante (Spain), Maastricht (Netherlands), Palma de Mallorca (Spain) and Zadar (Croatia). Ryanair now operates 454 low fare routes from 130 airports across Europe.
| FROM |
TO |
STARTS |
| Barcelona |
Maastricht |
Jun |
| Dublin |
Alicante |
May |
| |
Bremen |
May |
| Dusseldorf |
Alghero |
Jun |
| |
Alicante |
Jun |
| |
Palma |
Jun |
| |
Venice |
Jun |
| Frankfurt |
Palma |
Apr |
| Liverpool |
Alicante |
Apr |
| |
Palma |
Mar |
| Pisa |
Alicante |
Apr |
| |
Palma |
Apr |
| Rome |
Zaragoza |
Mar |
| Stansted |
Alicante |
Mar |
| |
Palma |
Apr |
| |
Zadar |
Apr |
Announcing today’s expansion, Ryanair’s Head of Communications, Peter Sherrard said:
"In the next year, 50M passengers will save over €5bn with Ryanair’s lowest fares and no fuel surcharge guarantee. Today’s expansion will drive down prices to 4 exciting new destinations, Alicante, Maastricht, Palma and Zadar and sees the launch of our 19th European base in Düsseldorf Weeze.
"These 16 new routes are available for immediate booking on www.ryanair.com, and to celebrate we are offering 5 million FREE seats so passengers should get online immediately, before they are all snapped up".
"In order to accommodate these 16 new routes, Ryanair has today announced the withdrawal of 2 routes, Girona to Marrakesh and Stansted to Deauville".
