Ryanair to start 3 new routes and increase frequency on other routes.

Ryanair is to start 3 new routes from 29th April 2004:

London Stansted – Brindisi, Italy
Frankfurt Hahn – Jerez, Spain
Glasgow Prestwick – Rome Ciampino, Italy.

The addition of these new destinations will bring the total Ryanair network to 147 routes across 16 Europen countries. Ryanair now has 66 destinations served from London Stansted, 12 destinations from Glasgow Prestwick and 19 destinations from Frankfurt Hahn.

In addition Ryanair is increasing frequency on the following routes from 29th April 2004:

London Stansted – Palermo – 1 increased to 2 daily flights
London Stansted – Pisa – 2 increased to 3 daily flights
London Stansted – Carcassonne – 1 increased to 2 daily flights.
London Stansted – Nimes – 1 increased to 2 daily flights.
London Stansted – Jerez – 1 increased to 2 daily flights.
London Stansted – Kerry – 1 increased to 2 daily flights.

London Gatwick – Dublin – 5 increased to 6 daily flights.

As previously indicated, as part of the ongoing process of reviewing destinations which have underperformed the route from London Stansted to Groningen will cease on the 28th of April, 2004.

London Stansted – Brindisi

FR 4976 London – Brindisi 17.10-21.00
FR 4977 Brindisi – London 21.25-23.20

Frankfurt Hahn – Jerez

FR 4623 Frankfurt – Jerez 06.30-09.20
FR 4624 Jerez – Frankfurt 09.45-12.50

Glasgow Prestwick – Rome Ciampino

FR 7342 Glasgow – Rome 16.05 20.10
FR 7343 Rome – Glasgow 20.35 22.55

All routes will be daily and operated by Boeing 737 – 800 aircraft.
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Normally Ryanair announces about 6 or 7 new summer routes from London Stansted in the summer every year but it looks like their expansion wont be as “rapid” as last year due to all the old aircraft disposals etc.

Also Ryanair has significantly scaled back their routes to the “low countries”. With the airline axeing or already axed Brussels Charleroi, Oostend, Groningen and Maastricht that means they will be leaving the Belgian market completely from STN and their only service from STN to the low countries being Eindhoven!