Ryanair, Europe’s No. 1 low fares airline today (21st September 2004) announced four new low fares routes from London Stansted to Spain and Portugal. The new routes, which will commence on dates between the 2nd November 2004 and the 25th February 2005, will give even greater choice to consumers at Ryanair’s lowest fares. This brings to 78 the number of routes offered by Ryanair from London Stansted and to 12 the total number of airports served in the Iberian Peninsula from London.
Valencia – Starts 2/11/04
Almeria – Starts 19/1/05
Porto – Starts 19/1/05
Seville – Starts 25/2/05
Announcing the new routes in London today, Ryanair’s Chief Executive, Michael O’Leary said “We opened our first route to Spain in November 2002 and, with this announcement today, Ryanair will serve more Spanish airports (10) directly from London than any other airline. We are also delighted to launch our first scheduled route from London to Portugal with a twice-daily service to Porto, Portugal’s second largest city. This year Ryanair will carry over 4 million passengers on our routes to Spain and next year we expect to see that figure rise to 5.5 million.
Two of these routes, Valencia and Almeria, have already been announced by Easyjet but, as in the case of Barcelona (Girona), Reus and Santander, where we compete with them, it is only by flying with Ryanair will consumers enjoy the lowest airfares and the best punctuality. Easyjet’s average fare remains more than 60% higher than Ryanair while their on time performance has trailed behind Ryanair’s for over 100 weeks in a row. In total our passengers on these routes will save over £86 million against the same services offered by Easyjet.
These fantastic new Spanish and Portuguese routes are on sale today at http://www.ryanair.com from an incredible £0.99 (excluding taxes) and at these fantastic prices we urge passengers to book quickly as these seats will be in huge demand.”
By: skycruiser - 22nd September 2004 at 04:26
chill pills all round.
By: LBARULES - 21st September 2004 at 19:24
Well you normally like to boast about your ‘wisdom and knowledge’ so I would have thought that.
No worries though 🙂
By: danairboy - 21st September 2004 at 19:21
I wasnt boasting, please dont think that. Most of those courses were a waste of time anyway, they havent got me very far! I am a bit of a geography anorak though.
By: LBARULES - 21st September 2004 at 19:19
It wasnt sarcasm! Honest, I am not on your case. You knew what I meant by saying Ryanair will be Spains national carrier, I meant by the amount of routes they actually flew to Spain. Congratulations on your qualifications well done, but I dont see what they have to do with this.
And dont tell me to shut up, you should do with the amount of rubbish you spouted last night.
By: danairboy - 21st September 2004 at 19:16
Listen LBA, get off my case. Every comment I post you reply with sarcasm.
I know none of the destinations I pointed out are in Spain. My travel geography is quite good having a A level Geography, Certificate of Travel Agency Competence I and II , HND in Tourism Management, Oxford Certificate in Tourism and a GNVQ Advanced in Leisure and Tourism, so shut up!
The destinations I listed are key destinations for IB which are quite unique and very special markets for Spain for historical/cultural reasons.
By: LBARULES - 21st September 2004 at 19:12
Maybe its to congested? And with Easy with a very big presence as well. Or maybe the landing fees are too high? Who knows..
By: T5 - 21st September 2004 at 19:00
Good news.
Anyone know why Ryanair doesn’t bother with Gatwick? Serving just one destination from the airport is slightly disappointing!
By: LBARULES - 21st September 2004 at 18:59
None of them are in Spain……?
By: danairboy - 21st September 2004 at 18:54
They will be Spains national airline when they start serving Malabo, Lima, Mellila etc
By: LBARULES - 21st September 2004 at 17:44
More good news for STN, Ryanairs new routes seem to be never ending! They are going to be Spains national airline soon!
By: wannabe pilot - 21st September 2004 at 17:28
Good to see yet more routes being served from my door-step, but it seems like quite a big challenge to Easyjet competing directly against them on the Valencia and Almeria routes. It says how they compete against EZY on the ‘Barcelona’ route, but we are infact talking about Girona vs El Prat. Here, they are actually using the same airports. Strange…
By: danairboy - 21st September 2004 at 17:02
Yes it sounds like it hails from their PR machine. I cant see airports like Oporto and Seville lowering their charges as mush as some other destinations, as both airports do a good trade with their respective national carriers. I bet Iberia and TAP are livid with their home airports!
By: Ren Frew - 21st September 2004 at 16:33
I assume this came from Ryanair.com? can you remember to credit the source when cutting and pasting info please. Refer to the sticky at te top of the index page. Ta ! 😉
Helps keep us sweet. 😀
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