Bases at 3 Canarian airports!

RYANAIR TO OPEN THREE NEW BASES ON THE CANARY ISLANDS



€400M INVESTMENT, 112 ROUTES (35 NEW), 6 AIRCRAFT & 4.5M PAX AT NEW BASES IN GRAN CANARIA, LANZAROTE AND TENERIFE

AND AT FUERTEVENTURA



Ryanair, the world's favourite airline, today (1st Dec) announced three new bases on the Canary Islands in summer 2011. Ryanair will base six aircraft across Gran Canaria (2 ac), Lanzarote (2 ac) and Tenerife (2 ac) from February 2011 while also increasing Fuerteventura routes and frequencies. Ryanair will operate 112 routes to/from the Canary Islands (including 35 new routes) which will deliver 4.5m passengers p.a., sustaining over 4,500 local jobs including 350 Ryanair pilots, cabin crew and engineers.



Ryanair carried just 300,000 passengers to the Canary Islands in 2009. However, since the Islands' Govt and the Spanish Parliament incentivised air traffic growth by (a) reducing airport charges for 2010 and 2011, and (b) recently announcing a 2013-2015 Regional Marketing Fund to support continued air traffic growth, Ryanair will now grow its traffic to/from the Islands to 4.5m passengers p.a., which will restore all of the traffic lost by the Canary Islands between 2007-2009.



Ryanair's Michael Cawley said:



"Ryanair is pleased to announce three new Canary Island bases, 4.5m passengers p.a. and 112 routes which will be phased in from February 2011 to deliver more low fares and high spending visitors to Fuerteventura and our new bases in Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Tenerife. Ryanair's growth is directly attributable to the visionary initiatives of the Canary Islands Government who, in recent years, have identified low fare access as being critical, and have worked with Ryanair to reduce airport costs in order to return tourism to its previous 2007 record levels.



The announcement today of a 2013-2015 Regional Marketing Fund, in parallel with AENA's 2011 cost incentives, has allowed the Canary Islands deliver much lower airport costs and secure this largest ever investment by Ryanair, Europe's largest airline, in Spanish Tourism."

New routes

Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (LPA) to Billund (BLL)
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (LPA) to Bratislava, M.R . Stefanika (BTS)
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (LPA) to Cork (ORK)
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (LPA) to Eindhoven (EIN)
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (LPA) to Karlsruhe/Baden Baden, Soellingen (FKB)
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (LPA) to Knock, Ireland West Knock (NOC)
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (LPA) to Bergamo, Orio al Serio (BGY)
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (LPA) to Santander (SDR)
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (LPA) to Santiago De Compostela (SCQ)
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (LPA) to Sevilla, San Pablo (SVQ)
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (LPA) to Valencia (VLC)
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (LPA) to Zaragoza (ZAZ)

Tenerife, Sur Reina Sofia (TFS) to Billund (BLL)
Tenerife, Sur Reina Sofia (TFS) to Cork (ORK)
Tenerife, Sur Reina Sofia (TFS) to Doncaster Sheffield, Robin Hood (DSA)
Tenerife, Sur Reina Sofia (TFS) to Knock, Ireland West Knock (NOC)
Tenerife, Sur Reina Sofia (TFS) to Maastricht, Aachen (MST)
Tenerife, Sur Reina Sofia (TFS) to Palermo, Punta Raisi (PMO)
Tenerife, Sur Reina Sofia (TFS) to Beauvais, Tillé (BVA)
Tenerife, Sur Reina Sofia (TFS) to Santander (SDR)
Tenerife, Sur Reina Sofia (TFS) to Santiago De Compostela (SCQ)
Tenerife, Sur Reina Sofia (TFS) to Sevilla, San Pablo (SVQ)
Tenerife, Sur Reina Sofia (TFS) to Valencia (VLC)

Lanzarote (ACE) to Eindhoven (EIN)
Lanzarote (ACE) to Karlsruhe/Baden Baden, Soellingen (FKB)
Lanzarote (ACE) to Knock, Ireland West Knock (NOC)
Lanzarote (ACE) to Leeds, Bradford (LBA)
Lanzarote (ACE) to Santander (SDR)
Lanzarote (ACE) to Santiago De Compostela (SCQ)
Lanzarote (ACE) to Sevilla, San Pablo (SVQ)
Lanzarote (ACE) to Treviso (TSF)
Lanzarote (ACE) to Valencia (VLC)
Lanzarote (ACE) to Valladolid (VLL)
Lanzarote (ACE) to Zaragoza (ZAZ)

Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura (FUE) to Birmingham (BHX)
Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura (FUE) to Shannon (SNN).