Ryanair expands routes at three airports
Ferry Online Travel News 15/01/2009
The carrier is adding new Boeing 737s at Edinburgh, Bristol and Alicante airports in a major network expansion.
The number of aircraft at Edinburgh airport will increase from two to four in March and in July Bristol airport will see the same increase. At the Alicante airport, the number of aircraft will increase from three to four in June.
Ryanair’s investment will mean 12 new routes for Bristol, seven for Edinburgh and four for Alicante.
Alicante airport’s new routes, to Derry and Knock, in Ireland, will commence on 4 June, and new service to Wroclaw, Poland, from Bristol will begin on 3 July.
Bristol airport’s new routes will include connections with Alicante, Barcelona, Cagliari, Eindhoven, Limoges, Malta, Montpellier, Perpignan, Rimini, Seville, Toulon and Trieste. The expanded services will increase traffic at Bristol to approximately 1.6 million passengers per year.
At Edinburgh airport new routes will connect the Scottish airport with Carcassonne, Limoges, Leipzig, Malta, Poitiers, Rome and Zadar. Service to Alicante and Dusseldorf-Weeze will be increased from the end of March.
Ryanair’s passenger traffic at Edinburgh airport will be increased to nearly two millions passengers per year.
The low-cost carrier has put one million seats on sale at £1 each for travel on its network of European services during February and March, for bookings made by midnight on 19 January.
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