Ryanair add 17 routes as Edinburgh becomes 27th base
28.02.08
Ryanair has announced that it will launch 17 new routes from Edinburgh Airport and will open its 27th European base - and its second Scottish base after Prestwick - at the hub later this year. The budget airline will base two aircraft in Edinburgh from September - at a cost of £70m - to handle the majority of the new services.
The first new route will open next month [weekly route frequencies in brackets] - to Alicante (4) - followed in April by Bremen (2), Frankfurt (3), Marseille (2) and Pisa (3). In June Ryanair will launch flights to Dusseldorf (2).
The bulk of the new destinations will start in September when Berlin (4), Billund (3), Bournemouth (13), Bratislava (4), Krakow (3), Lodz (2), Malaga (4), Palma (3), Poznan (3), Stockholm (4) and Wroclow (2) are to be launched. The announcement takes the total number of destinations served by Ryanair at Edinburgh to 19. Currently it operates two routes, to Dublin (3) and Shannon (4).
Fares of £10 are being offered on all of the new routes until midnight on Monday. Ryanair claims the expansion will sustain 1200 jobs and generate visitor spend of more than £100m based on a projected 1.2 million passengers a year, which will push Edinburgh Airport further ahead of rival Glasgow.
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