Ryanair to expand its Shannon programme
Ryanair has announced it will open eight new routes from Shannon, starting in April 2014.
Tickets go on sale today for the flights – to Berlin, Faro, Fuerteventura, Krakow, Munich, Nice, Paris and Warsaw.
The new routes will deliver an additional 300,000 passengers a year – the first of an extra 1m passengers a year that Ryanair says it can achieve as a result of the Irish Government’s decision to scrap the €3 per person air travel tax from April 2014.
In addition, an extra frequency has been added on the Stansted route, to 15 a week.
Ryanair is in continuing discussions with the four other main Irish airports – Cork, Dublin, Kerry and Knock – to finalise its growth plans for summer 2014 and hopes to announce more route and frequency growth from Ireland in the coming weeks.
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Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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