Five new routes for Ryanair
Ever-expanding Irish budget carrier Ryanair announced today it would be operating five new routes from London, starting at the end of April.
The no-frills airline will be flying from Stansted airport to Reims and Pau in France, Maastricht in Holland, Haugesund in Norway and Dusseldorf in Germany, which will be served from Niederrhein airport
One-way fares to Maastricht and Dusseldorf will start at £49.99 (€75.68), while the one-way fares on the other three new routes will start at £59.99 (€90.82).
Ryanair also announced it was increasing frequency on 11 of its existing services from Stansted, including Frankfurt, Milan and Barcelona.
The new routes will put Ryanair in competition with scheduled carriers such as British Airways, Air France and the Scandinavian airline SAS.
From April 30, the airline will be serving 49 European destinations from Stansted, where it started operations in 1989. Ryanair can now boast a network of 100 routes across 15 European countries.
Today’s announcement follows yesterday’s news that Ryanair had chosen Stockholm Skavsta airport in Sweden as its ninth European base and from April 4, would 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 from Sweden to London and Frankfurt.
