Ryanair set to expand in Germany

by Ryanairflyer Wed 24 Apr 2013 - 23:00

Ryanair plans to expand in Germany, MOL said in an interview on Wednesday, also predicting that budget airlines would continue to steal market share from their older rivals.

"We want to service five or six more airports in Germany," up from 13 now, Ryanair chief Michael O'Leary told the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in its issue to be published Thursday.
The airline is in talks with some 20 German airports.

MOL said-
Airlines such as Lufthansa and British Airways are competing on European routes, "They'll have no choice but to scale back in the next three to four years because we will expand and take over markets."
He also predicted that Lufthansa's low-cost division Germanwings was "doomed to fail," in remarks published in German.
He labelled Berlin's indefinitely delayed new airport project "a disaster" and said Ryanair would likely not fly to the German capital anymore in future, citing high airport charges.
O'Leary said his airline aimed to boost annual passenger numbers to 130 million within a decade from about 80 million now.