Ryanair to start base in Annecy

[willywick]

A very reliable person working in Annecy airport management and chamber of commerce has told me that the new ryanair base will be announced this coming week (probably thursday or friday).

Ryanair will apparently base 3 aircraft in Annecy, located about 50km south from Geneva (marketed as Geneva South). The charleroi and strasbourg cases have made subsidies hard, but ryanair will get free landing rights and the airport will look after marketing for the first year.

Routes are likely to be:

London Stansted (3x daily)
Dublin (1x daily)
Frankfurt Hahn (2x daily)
Rome Ciampino (2x daily)
Pisa (1x daily)
Oslo (1x daily)
Eindhoven (1x daily)
Barcelona Girona (1x daily)

By going to Annecy, ryanair are trying to bite some of the market shares which easyjet has in Geneva, though the routes are pretty much radically different except for London and Barcelona.

Cheers