Ryanair announces new European base
Budget carrier Ryanair today announced a new European base and a raft of new low fares.
The Irish no-frills airline has chosen Stockholm Skavsta airport in Sweden as its ninth European base.
From April 4, Ryanair will operate more than 30 flights a day from Stockholm to Glasgow, Hamburg, Paris, Oslo, Aarhus in Denmark and Tampere in Finland in addition to the services it already operates to London and Frankfurt.
Ryanair will be competing with Scandinavian airline SAS and the new Swedish operation will result in the creation of more than 200 jobs in Stockholm. Ryanair hopes that it will carry more than 1.5 million passengers through Stockholm in the first year of operation.
Ryanair’s chief executive Michael O’Leary said today: “Thanks to Ryanair, and Stockholm Skavsta Airport, the SAS high-fares monopoly in the Scandinavian market is at an end.”
