Im not even going to try and pronounce the names of these places. Good new for Eastern European flyers none the less.
Ryanair News
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News Release
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18.05.05
60 YEARS AFTER VE DAY:
RYANAIR LIBERATES POLAND
5 NEW ROUTES TO POLAND & SLOVAKIA AT FARES FROM £3.99*
Ryanair, Europe’s No. 1 low fares airline, today (Wednesday, 18th May 2005) announced 5 new routes to Poland and Slovakia. From October 30th, 2005 Ryanair will operate daily flights from London-Stansted to Gdansk, Bydgoszcz, Szczecin, Rzeszow (Poland) and a twice-daily route to Bratislava (Slovakia). Bookings can be made on Ryanair.com today from just £3.99*.
COMPARE THE FARES
One way fares from:
ROUTE LOT* RYANAIR** % SAVING
Gdansk £55 £3.99 93%
Bydgoszcz £72 £3.99 93%
Szczecin £55 £3.99 95%
Rzeszow £55 £3.99 93%
ROUTE SKY EUROPE*** RYANAIR** % SAVING
Bratislava N/A £3.99 N/A
(*fare source: LOT website, one-way fares excluding taxes booking 13.05.05, travel 01.11.05, all flights operated ex London Heathrow via Warsaw)
(**Ryanair fares one-way excluding taxes)
(***Sky Europe website, travel 01.11.05)
Announcing Ryanair’s new routes in London today, Michael Cawley, Deputy CEO said:
“In 2004 Michael O’Leary said: “Who wants to go to Gdansk? There ain’t a lot there after you’ve seen the shipyard wall”. There he goes – wrong again. A big piece of humble pie later and it’s RE (Ryanair in Europe) Day as Ryanair liberates Poland from the tyranny of high fares. British Tourists can now discover Poland and decide for themselves what Gdansk, Bydgoszcz, Szczecin, and Rzeszow have to offer without paying the high fares of LOT and Easyjet.
“Today, we also add a new route to Bratislava in Slovakia, which has the added appeal of its proximity to Vienna, a destination which until today could only be accessed at prohibitively high fares.
“These five new routes mean British passengers will save over £60M on the high fares of other airlines and will benefit from Ryanair’s unbeatable punctuality and customer service”.
By: Bmused55 - 18th May 2005 at 16:22
And complaining about where Ryanair fly to gets you anywhere???
No, I beleive the court proceedings were part ofa complaint to the Advertising standards agency.
FR are well known to play with their destination names. 😉 they’ve changed that mostly know… but you can’t help but be a little suspicious.
By: SHAMROCK321 - 18th May 2005 at 16:18
I think alot of people would be in the smae situation LBARULES. Most Irish people are still shocked when they hear Kerry & Sligo have airports.
By: LBARULES - 18th May 2005 at 15:30
Suppose yeah, ive never heard of alot of places where FR fly 🙂
By: SHAMROCK321 - 18th May 2005 at 15:27
If fares are low enough they will work. One of them is quite near Berlin and te other scattered around Poland. But look at all the French routes that work. Some of the litteraly to the middle of nowhere. As countries like Poland continue to grow and the GNP increase then routes like this will suceed.
By: LBARULES - 18th May 2005 at 15:25
Got to be honest with you, have never heard of Bydgoszcz, Szczecin and Rzeszow before, will these routes be succesful? Im not sure..
By: bmi-star - 18th May 2005 at 15:12
Interesting that they’re going to Bratislava, SkyEurope seem to be doing very well with that route.
And still we see more destinations appearing from STN! Go on the Ryanair website route map, and click on Stansted. The number of routes is quite incredible.
I was shocked when i saw that last month! Its unbelievable that an Irish airline flys that much routes from an English Airport!!!
By: SHAMROCK321 - 18th May 2005 at 14:31
And complaining about where Ryanair fly to gets you anywhere???
By: Bmused55 - 18th May 2005 at 13:22
Maybe they will but of course they will have the little note to say they arnt actually flying to Warsaw. If you dont like it dont fly there but most importantly dont complain about it.
Ive just been having a closer look at the press release and I noticed this in it. Bearing in mid this is from the Ryanair website.
“In 2004 Michael O’Leary said: “Who wants to go to Gdansk? There ain’t a lot there after you’ve seen the shipyard wall”. There he goes – wrong again.
they’ve landed themselves in court several times for advertising misleading destination names 😉
Clearly your “don’t like it, don’t fly, don’t complain” line doesn’t work
By: SHAMROCK321 - 18th May 2005 at 12:52
Maybe they will but of course they will have the little note to say they arnt actually flying to Warsaw. If you dont like it dont fly there but most importantly dont complain about it.
Ive just been having a closer look at the press release and I noticed this in it. Bearing in mid this is from the Ryanair website.
“In 2004 Michael O’Leary said: “Who wants to go to Gdansk? There ain’t a lot there after you’ve seen the shipyard wall”. There he goes – wrong again.
By: Bmused55 - 18th May 2005 at 12:45
I wonder how they’ll market these routes.
London – Warsaw?
By: wannabe pilot - 18th May 2005 at 12:18
Interesting that they’re going to Bratislava, SkyEurope seem to be doing very well with that route.
And still we see more destinations appearing from STN! Go on the Ryanair website route map, and click on Stansted. The number of routes is quite incredible.
By: RIPConcorde - 18th May 2005 at 11:59
Im not even going to try and pronounce the names of these places.
No, but it’ll be interesting listening to the people announcing them at the airport try to! 😀
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