Ryanair unveils major expansion at Birmingham
Ryanair will fly 20 routes from Birmingham Airport from April using two Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
It is starting flights to five destinations in France, five in Italy, three in Poland, two in Spain, and one each in Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, and Sweden.
The airline said this will be followed by a further eight Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
The newly annunced routes, start dates, frequency per week, and lead-in return fares, inlcluding taxes, are as follows:
Biarritz 1 July, three times, £24
Billund 17 June, three times, £24
Bologna 20 June, twice £24
Bratislava 1 July, three times £24
Bydgoszcz 4 July, twice £24
Dinard 17 June, three times £24
Gdansk 1 July, three times £24
Olbia 4 July, twice £24
Oslo 17 June, three times £24
Perpignan 2 July, twice £24
Pisa 4 April, three times £24
Poitiers 17 June, three times £24
Porto 20 June, twice £24
Stockholm 2 July, four times £24
Trieste 18 June, twice £24
Reus 18 June, four times £24
Rzeszow 18 June, twice £24
Trapani 2 July, twice £24
In addition, the airline has already unveiled new flights to Barcelona starting on April 1, with fares from £24.
Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said: “The people of Birmingham have been woefully underserved and overcharged by British Airways and Flybe’s high fares for years.
“Ryanair’s new base will smash this high fare stranglehold by delivering savings of £130m next year for Birmingham’s passengers/visitors.
“This route count will more than double as a result of Ryanair’s $700m investment in Birmingham, bringing with it a significant increase in European visitors and jobs for the West Midlands.
To celebrate the launch, Ryanair is offering passengers who buy a return flight on any route from Birmingham (before midnight on Thursday) a free bonus flight, (no taxes, no fees and no charges*) for travel in February to Dublin or Shannon from Birmingham.
By Bev Fearis
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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