Ryanair Holdings PLC RYANAIR LAUNCH RECORD WINTER 17 SCOTLAND SCHEDULE (1035X)
February 16 2017 - 7:02AM
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RNS Number : 1035X
Ryanair Holdings PLC
16 February 2017
RYANAIR LAUNCHES RECORD WINTER 2017 SCOTLAND SCHEDULE
15 NEW ROUTES DELIVER 20% GROWTH, 5M CUSTOMERS
Ryanair, Europe's No. 1 airline, today (16 Feb) launched its
biggest-ever Scottish winter schedule, with 13 new Edinburgh routes
to Baden, Budapest, Carcassonne, Eindhoven, Hamburg, Katowice,
Nantes, Prague, Szczecin, Toulouse, Venice, Valencia and Wroclaw
(38 in total), and 2 new Glasgow routes to Krakow and Madrid (17 in
total), which will deliver 20% growth and over 5m customers p.a. in
total at Ryanair's 4 Scottish Airports and supporting 3,750
jobs.
Ryanair will continue to connect Scotland with major business
centres on high frequency, low fare services including Berlin
(daily), Dublin (6 daily), London (7 daily) and Rome (daily), with
better timings and lower fares, making Ryanair the ideal choice for
Scottish business and leisure customers, as these new routes will
go on sale in February 2017.
Ryanair's Scotland Winter 2017 schedule will deliver:
Edinburgh
-- 13 new routes: Baden (2 wkly), Budapest (2), Carcassonne (2),
Eindhoven (3), Hamburg (2),
Katowice (2), Nantes (2), Prague (3), Szczecin (2), Toulouse
(2), Venice Treviso (3),
Valencia (3) & Wroclaw (2)
-- Extra flights to Copenhagen (5 wkly) & Fuerteventura (2)
-- 38 routes in total
-- 2.8m customers p.a. (+14%)
-- 2,100* "on-site" jobs p.a.
Glasgow International:
-- 2 new routes to Krakow (2 wkly) & Madrid (4)
-- 17 routes in total
-- 1.4m customers p.a. (+ 24%)
-- 1,000 * "on-site" jobs p.a.
Glasgow Prestwick:
-- 9 routes in total (including Alicante, Lanzarote & Tenerife)
-- 675,000 customers p.a. (+4%)
Aberdeen:
-- 2 routes to Alicante and Malaga
-- 80,000 customers p.a.
Ryanair's Scotland summer 2017 schedule is attracting record
bookings, with more frequencies to sun destinations for summer
family holidays, lower fares as Ryanair passes on lower fuel costs,
and an even better customer experience, as it continues to roll out
its "Always Getting Better" improvements.
In Edinburgh, Ryanair's Michael O'Leary said:
"We are pleased to launch our biggest-ever Scotland winter
schedule, with 15 new routes and 20% growth which will deliver over
5 m customers p.a. and support 3,750 jobs at Ryanair's four
Scottish Airports. We are also pleased to report record bookings on
our Scottish summer 2017 schedule, and Scottish customers can look
forward to even lower fares, so there's never been a better time to
book a low fare flight on Ryanair. We urge all customers who wish
to book their holidays to do so now on the Ryanair.com website or
mobile app, where they can avail of the lowest fare air travel to
and from Scotland.
We call on the Scottish Government to follow the Irish example
and scrap APD entirely to allow Scottish traffic, tourism and jobs
to grow and ensure Scottish airports can compete and attract more
business. The scrapping of APD would enable Ryanair to base more
aircraft in Scotland, add even more new routes and and create
thousands of additional jobs.
To celebrate the launch of our Scotland winter 2017 schedule we
are releasing seats for sale across our European network from just
GBP9.99, which are available for booking until midnight Monday (20
Feb). Since these amazing low prices will be snapped up quickly,
customers should log onto www.ryanair.com and avoid missing
out."
ENDS
*ACI research confirms up to 750 'on-site' jobs are sustained at
international airports for every 1m passengers
For further information
please contact:
Robin Kiely Piaras Kelly
Ryanair DAC Edelman Ireland
Tel: +353-1-9451949 Tel: +353-1-6789333
press@ryanair.com ryanair@edelman.com
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