Teesside – Rome Daily Ryanair Service

The low costs should stick to the tried and tested Alicante catering for the Benidorm bootleggers and the timeshare crowd. Valencia is a different market.

Surprised to see Valencia as a new destination! Hopefully it will be started from London too – Luton perhaps or maybe from Stansted to compete against easyJet on their new STN – VLC route?

Durham-Tees Valley as it is now called, I understand. Oh well since DanAirs demise few airlines have shown an interest in operating schedules from MME so I suppose they ought to be pleased that the arrogant Ryanair are coming in.

Superb news for Teesside, I hope it all goes well for them!

Absolutely fantastic news and not just Teeside either!

RYANAIR EXPANDS TO 17 ROUTES FROM ROME CIAMPINO

$120M INVESTMENT – 2 NEW AIRCRAFT
5 NEW EUROPEAN ROUTES TO GERMANY – SPAIN – UK

Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 low fares airline, today (8th September 04) announced it is to double the size of its base at Rome Ciampino to 4 based aircraft, representing a further investment of $120M, and also announced 5 new European routes from Rome Ciampino to Dusseldorf Niederrhein (Germany), Valencia (Spain) & Nottingham East Midlands, Liverpool & Teeside (UK).

Ryanair, which is already Italy’s favourite airline for Europe, began flying from Ciampino in April 2002, and has already 12 low cost international routes operating from its Ciampino base. This year Ciampino will have over 2.0M Ryanair passengers, saving €200M on the high fares of Alitalia.

Announcing the new routes and additional aircraft in Rome today, Ryanair’s CEO, Michael O’Leary said:

“ Veni Vidi Vici…with Ryanair that’s Europe’s lowest fares! We opened our 2nd base in Ciampino in January 04, and today we are doubling the size of our aircraft base with 2 brand new Boeing 737-800 aircraft, bringing a total investment by Ryanair at Ciampino to $240M.

Also today, in addition to our 12 low cost routes from Rome, Ryanair is announcing FIVE NEW ROUTES from Rome to Dusseldorf, Liverpool, Nottingham, Teeside & Valencia. These fantastic new destinations, which are on sale right now at www.ryanair.com from an incredible €5.99! (excl. taxes) will start in January and February 2005. We would urge passengers wishing to grab a bargain to these great destinations to book now, as demand will be huge!”

ROME CIAMPINO TO:

FARE (FROM) FREQUENCY START DATE
DUSSELDORF (NIEDERRHEIN) €5.99 DAILY 28th JAN 05
LIVERPOOL €5.99 DAILY 28th JAN 05
TEESIDE €5.99 DAILY 28th JAN 05
NOTTINGHAM €5.99 DAILY 7th FEB 05
VALENCIA €5.99 DAILY 7th FEB 05

Ryanair today also announced a new daily route from Girona to Dusseldorf-Niederrhein, commencing on 8th November 2004.

I think EZY are starting a NCL-Rome service in October, but thats besides the point. Great news for MME, hope it works out for them.