SHANNON – MANCHESTER, WROCLAW, ROME, MURCIA
50,000 SEATS FOR €5 (TAX INLCUDED) ON SHANNON ROUTES
Ryanair, Europe’s No. 1 low fares airline, today (Thursday, 1st December 2005) announced four new routes from its Shannon base to Manchester, Wroclaw, Rome and Murcia. The four new routes will start on the 22nd February next and will each operate three times weekly. To accommodate these 4 new routes, Ryanair will close 2 routes from Shannon to Hamburg and Stockholm from 22nd February next. This expansion includes Ryanair’s first route between Ireland and Poland (Shannon – Wroclaw) and brings the total number of routes operated at the Shannon base to 19.
Announcing the expansion at Shannon today, Ryanair’s CEO Michael O’Leary, said:
“Ryanair launched its Shannon base in May and monthly Ryanair traffic at the airport has trebled. Ryanair has delivered dramatic growth at Shannon airport as promised. This is good news for business and tourism in the mid-west.”
“Today’s 4 new routes to England, Poland, Italy and Spain mean that over the next year 1.5 M passengers will use Ryanair’s Shannon flights, almost 1M of whom will be inbound visitors, sustaining 1,500 jobs in the mid West”.
“These 4 new routes are available today on http://www.ryanair.com and we urge passengers to book immediately as demand for these new destinations will be very strong”.
http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/news.php?yr=05&month=dec&story=rte-en-011205
I was somewhat surprised to MAN in there – are Ryanair planning to make a mini-base out of MAN. Then again I was when they announced BRS-SNN anyway.
By: LBARULES - 1st December 2005 at 20:50
It makes me sad really when I look at HUY, both it and LBA were very similar just a few years ago, now LBA has exploded, and HUY is still the same.
By: Humberside - 1st December 2005 at 20:34
Regarding HUY-DUB, it was reported by the BBC last week as well as in the usual places (Air Humberside, pprune). Could well be part of a wider deal with the Manchester Airports Group. What any HUY-DUB service would mean for DSA-DUB, who knows?
I agree HUY has missed the boat big time over scheduled destinations. I think only very attractive offers will get HUY a lo-co now.
By: LBARULES - 1st December 2005 at 20:13
If Ryanair were going to operate HUY-DUB, why would they do it after all these years of not operating at DSA? I doubt they would start DSA (As well as existing operations from LBA, MAN, MME, NCL, EMA, BHX), and then suddenly start from Humberside.
I personally think HUY has missed the boat big time regarding any scheduled destinations.
By: mesabavirtual - 1st December 2005 at 20:11
HUY-DUB wouldnt work would it, its far too near to Robin Hood Airport
Ryanair’s Dublin Routes to The North East of England are:
Durham Tees Valley
Leeds/Bradford
Newcastle
Robin Hood Airport
I doubt there would be a market for DUB-HUY with Ryanair would there?
Would be good for Humberside but I can’t see it happening
Maybe Cityjet could start it or Air Wales, Eastern Airways, Flybe :confused:
Anyway good news for MAN with a new SNN route 😀
Cheers,
Sam
By: Humberside - 1st December 2005 at 18:57
FR and Manchester Aiport Group seem to be getting on well at the moment
NEMA base
MAN-SNN
Rumoured HUY-DUB
By: SHAMROCK321 - 1st December 2005 at 17:17
Its been a good day for Irish airport with GF starting DUB serivce tommorow as well as TP announcing 3 weekly flights to DUB and Centralwings who will start service to Katowice and Wroclaw this month expresssing interest in starting DUB-Gdansk and Lodz.
In the middle of all this EI-DEJ an EI A320 went on fire. :O
By: bmi-star - 1st December 2005 at 16:03
No suprise that MAN is one of the new destinations. There was a market there, but BA decided to pull the route. That’s why the LPL leg has been popualr of late!
By: wannabe pilot - 1st December 2005 at 15:51
http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/news.php?yr=05&month=dec&story=rte-en-011205
I was somewhat surprised to MAN in there – are Ryanair planning to make a mini-base out of MAN. Then again I was when they announced BRS-SNN anyway.
Doesn’t surprise me really when you look at it. Flybe have stopped their SNN-BHX route and BA stopped the SNN-MAN route. Therefore meaning there was quite a significant gap to be filled from SNN to the North of England.
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December 1, 2005 at 3:45 pm