New routes across Europe
Düsseldorf (Weeze) and Brussels (Charleroi) are to benefit from the ever growing Irish airline with two and six new routes respectively.
The German airport will benefit from one new aircraft, bringing the total to eight at the respective airport. This will lead to the introduction of two new routes to Lappeenranta, Finland and Szczecin, Poland from March 2010. The new Boeing jet will also mean frequency increases on a number of other routes: Barcelona (Girona); Faro; Ibiza; Malaga and Trapini. The base will now consist of 8 aircraft supporting 3,000 local jobs while carrying 3 million passengers between the airport and destinations across Europe.
The second airport to benefit from expansion, Brussels (Charleroi), will see 50% more aircraft from March as the airline invests in a further 4 airplanes for the airfield bringing a total of twelve jets. This will increase passenger numbers to four million plus and sustain 4,000 local jobs. The six new routes are: Ibiza; Kaunas; Krakow; Nador; Seville and Zadar. Further increases in frequencies will also be added to a number of already established routes:
Alicante 10pw
Ancona 3pw
Barcelona (Reus) 4pw
Fez 4pw
Madrid 19pw
Marrakesh 3pw
Oporto 5pw
Palma 4pw
Riga 6pw
Rome (Ciampino) 21pw
Tangier 3pw
Trapani 4pw
Valencia 6pw
Valladolid 5pw
Ryanair’s 4million passengers p.a. will sustain 4,000 local jobs in Charleroi in 2010.
HUGE expansion for Brussels - 50% increase! I guess that they have to put their aircraft somewhere and the UK and Ireland's resistence to reduce their rising aviation taxes won't help their own cause.
I somehow feel that some of these aircraft going to destinations across Europe could have been based on our shores.