New routes from Ryanair's Liverpool base
Ryanair today announced it is to set up its 12th European base at Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport, with an investment of $240m (€184.1m) in four new Boeing 737-800 series aircraft.
Michael O’Leary’s airline will fly new routes from Liverpool to Cork, Shannon, Barcelona Reus, Limoges Pisa, Murcia, Granada, Nimes and Venice.
Ryanair, which began services at Liverpool in 1988, already operates 14 daily international flights from Liverpool to Barcelona Girona, Dublin, Milan and Rome.
The company expects to carry 1.4 million passengers to and from Liverpool over the next year.
Also today, Ryanair announced new daily routes from Blackpool to Barcelona and Pisa to Barcelona.
O’Leary said: “Consumers from Merseyside using Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport now have a real low-fares airline offering fares that are almost half the price of Easyjet, serving 13 destinations throughout Europe and delivering unbeatable punctuality, and that’s Ryanair."
Ryanair’s shares were down 7c (1.4%) at €5.00 mid-morning.
