Ryanair At BHX

Ryanair have today announced 9 NEW ROUTES!

ALC 28/10 4pw
LDY 26/10 daily
FUE 28/10 3pw
KTW 27/10 5pw
KRK 26/10 4pw
KUN 26/10 2pw
AGP 26/10 daily
MJV 30/10 2pw
PMI 28/10 3pw

This Brings The Total Number of Routes Up To 32...

Ryanair starts twenty - fifth base at Birmingham and announces a further nine new routes

$700M INVESTMENT TO DELIVER 5M PAX P.A. AND 5,000 JOBS

Ryanair also announced today that it will launch nine new routes - to Alicante, Derry, Fuerteventura, Katowice, Kaunas, Krakow, Palma, Malaga and Murcia - in October 2008.

Celebrating Ryanair's twenty-fifth base in Birmingham today, Ryanair's Bridget Dowling said: "There's a double celebration at Birmingham International Airport this week. We're celebrating the arrival of our first based aircraft here and we're also announcing a further nine new routes which go on sale today.

"With thirty-two low fare routes announced from Birmingham to date, people of the West Midlands no longer have to suffer BA high fares or their high fuel surcharges.

"By 2012, Ryanair will have aircraft based in Birmingham which will deliver 5M passengers p. a. sustaining 5,000 jobs. This will equate to £400m visitor spend for the West Midlands. While other airlines, like BA, are busy increasing fares and fuel surcharges, Ryanair is guaranteeing the lowest fares and no fuel surcharges.

"To celebrate the start of our new base and the announcement of nine new routes, Ryanair is offering 35,000 one-way seats from £5* on routes from Birmingham. This special offer must end Thursday midnight so we advise passengers to book their bargain seats today on http://www.ryanair.com.

Peter Vella, Birmingham Airport's Business Development Director, said: "We are delighted to be officially unveiling Birmingham Airport as Ryanair's twenty-fifth base as well as welcoming the announcement of these further nine scheduled routes from the airport.

"These new services will offer passengers travelling from their local airport even greater choice and flexibility, allowing them to travel from within their region - whether that be for leisure or business."

NOTES FOR EDITORS

* one-way including taxes and charges

Previously announced routes from Birmingham:

Barcelona, Biarritz, Billund, Bologna, Bratislava, Bydgoszcz, Dinard, Dublin, Frankfurt (Hahn), Gdansk, Marseille, Olbia, Oslo, Perpignan, Pisa, Poitiers, Porto, Shannon, Stockholm, Trieste, Reus, Rzeszow & Trapani (Sicily).

ends 17 June 2008

INFORMATION -

Daniel de Carvalho, Ryanair, 003531 812 1598
Pauline McAlester - Murray Consultants, 00353 1 4980 300

Ryanair have also announced a new route to Prague on a 5 times weekly basis and this is Ryanairs 33 Destination from birmingham

As of 26th Of October, Ryanair will have 4 Based Aircraft

for summer 2009, alicante will become daily and on a saturday, malaga will become double daily. due to this the services to poland will have a slightly reduced frequency for the summer but no route cuts.

Ryanair has cutted down about 10+ routes from Poland, so it's nothing new for us here I'm only sorry, that there's no connection between my city and BHX as BHX is growing up very fast with it's interesting connections and might be nice hub for me.

i also hope that ryanair will be adding some new routes to bhx soon like madrid, berlin, rome and milan as birmingham is desperate for connections to these cities as passenger at the moment need to travel as far as luton for a flight to madrid.

nice if they had a route to paris as well, on a double daily basis for business travellers and choice of time for lesiure passengers. Birmingham is one of only a few airports in the uk that does not have a 737 service to paris.

so what kind of planes are flying on that route?

emb-145, emb-195 and bae-146. but frequencies are qyite high as air france has 6 daily flights and flybe have 3 so if ryanair did join this route war they could do very well as both these airlines have high fares

on a wednesday, thursday and sunday from now on till october, Birmingham to shannon will be double daily.