27th Base in Edinburgh

Ryanair Announces 27th European Base in Edinburgh



Ryanair, Europe’s largest low fares airline today (Thursday, 28^th February 2008) announced its 27^th European and second Scottish base in Edinburgh. From September, Ryanair will base two new Boeing 737-800 aircraft (worth $140m) which will serve 19 routes to/from Edinburgh. These new routes will deliver 1.2m passengers p.a. who will generate an annual visitor spend of over £100m and sustain 1,200 jobs in Edinburgh and East Scotland.

Destination	Starts	Frequency		Destination	Starts		Frequency
Alicante	Mar 08	4 x week		Lodz	Sep 08		2 x week
Berlin	Sep 08	4 x week		Malaga	Sep 08		4 x week
Billund	Sep 08	3 x week		Marseille	Apr 08		2 x week
Bournemouth	Sep 08	13 x week		Palma	Sep 08		3 x week
Bremen	Apr 08	2 x week		Pisa	Apr 08		3 x week
Bratislava	Sep 08	4 x week		Poznan	Sep 08		3 x week
Dublin	Operating	3 x day		Shannon	Operating		4 x week
Dusseldorf	Jun 08	2 x week		Stockholm	Sep 08		4 x week
Frankfurt	Apr 08	3 x week		Wroclaw	Sep 08		2 x week
Krakow	Sep 08	3 x week

Announcing this new Edinburgh base, Ryanair’s Director of Scheduled Revenue, Sean Coyle said:

“Edinburgh Airport has competed successfully against airports across Europe for Ryanair’s 27^th base. Our 19 routes will deliver significant economic benefits for Edinburgh by capitalising on Scotland’s huge tourism potential and making it cheaper and easier than ever before to get here.

“Ryanair already connects Scotland to more international destinations than any other airline and we look forward to delivering savings of over £20m for Edinburgh’s passengers compared to the high fares charged by Easyjet and BA.

“To celebrate the launch of our new Edinburgh base, we are releasing seats on all of our new routes for £10 including taxes and charges, while our existing routes to Dublin and Shannon will be available for just 1p all in. We advise passengers to snap up these bargain flights on www.ryanair.com, as this offer must end midnight Monday”.