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Ryanair, Europe’s favourite airline, today (17 Dec) announced further extension to its Manchester summer 2015 schedule with a new route to Stuttgart in Germany, which will operate six times weekly from 2nd April. This is in addition to 2 new summer 2015 routes to Eindhoven and Shannon (38 routes in total) and extra flights to/from Alicante, Lisbon and Madrid, which will deliver 2.7m customers p.a. and support 2,700* “on-site” jobs at Manchester Airport.