14 January 2009

Major route expansion for Ryanair

Ryanair will add new Boeing 737-800 aircraft at Bristol, Edinburgh and Alicante airports to expand its network.

It will go from two to four aircraft at Edinburgh from March and the same at Bristol from July.

At Alicante, it will go from three to four aircraft from June.

This investment will allow it to bring seven new routes to Edinburgh, 12 to Bristol and four to Alicante.

RyanairÃ¢â¬â¢s new Alicante routes will begin on June 4 to Derry and Knock, while flights to Wroclaw will begin on June 5 with Bristol commencing July 3.

At Bristol, new routes to and from Alicante, Barcelona, Cagliari, Eindhoven, Limoges, Malta, Montpellier, Perpignan, Rimini, Seville, Toulon and Trieste will increase RyanairÃ¢â¬â¢s traffic to almost 1.6 million per year.

Ryanair will start 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.

This will increase RyanairÃ¢â¬â¢s traffic at Edinburgh to almost 2 million a year.

As usual, Ryanair celebrated the announcement with a seat sale.

It has released 1 million Ã&#pound;1 seats for travel across its European network in February and March, which are available for booking before midnight January 19.

The new flight schedules are as follows:

Alicante to
Bristol 3 July Daily
Derry 4 June 2 pw
Knock 4 June 2 pw
Wroclaw 5 June 2 pw

Bristol to
Alicante 3 July Daily
Barcelona Reus 2 July 3 pw
Cagliari 1 July 2 pw
Eindhoven 31 March 3 pw
Limoges 2 July 3 pw
Malta 5 July 2 pw
Montpellier 2 July 3 p w
Perpignan 3 July 2 pw
Rimini 3 July 2 pw
Seville 3 July 2 pw
Toulon 2 July 3 pw
Trieste 5 July 2 pw

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

By Bev Fearis