Yet more new routes for Ryanair from Stansted…

Lodz and Warsaw are very close together. Lody alos has a huge population one of the biggest cities in Europe but I am surprised that a 737 can operate there as it only has a tiny runway.

I’ve been doing a little research into Lodz (pronounced “wootch” apparently!) and Shamrock seems to be correct as it has a population of 1 million people and is about 80 miles southwest of Warsaw. Not really close enough (in my opinion) to feasibly make it a Warsaw Airport. I’d rather use Wizz or easyJet who fly to Warsaw proper.

There are plenty of people in the ‘unknown’ destinations that I’m sure would love Ryanair for opening them up. The reason most of them are uknown is because no-one else flies there, and with air travel constantly becoming more and more accessible it is about time someone did fly there. Now, they are within a couple of hours of London, one of the most popular capital cities in Europe. It would therefore seem that however unknown they are to us, it’s the people living there or people that have a specific reason to go there, that will be filling the planes up.

Why would they fly to them if they didnt work?

They are obviously not ‘unknown’ to the people that fly there.

Do these unknown destinations actually work for them?

Havent got a clue where Lodz,Posnan and Kaunas are

I haven’t a clue where nine out of ten of Ryanair’s destinations are.

Also interesting to note the increased frequency on Derry, Seville, Granada, Riga and Tampere routes from STN. I guess they’re preparing for the next bulk of deliverys after Summer, since they were halted for a couple of months.

Have they resolved the runway issue there?

Also interesting to note the increased frequency on Derry, Seville, Granada, Riga and Tampere routes from STN. I guess they’re preparing for the next bulk of deliverys after Summer, since they were halted for a couple of months.

Good to see yet more announced, I wasn’t expecting anymore for the next few months. The STN route map continues to look more and more ridiculous!

Would love to be flight crew for Ryanair, flying to all these weird and wacky destinations! 😀

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Lodz and Warsaw are very close together. Lody alos has a huge population one of the biggest cities in Europe but I am surprised that a 737 can operate there as it only has a tiny runway.

Hehe!
BA don’t even fly to Lodz and Kaunas, and i’m sure Warsaw is a good distance from these!!

Forgot to post the press release:

RYANAIR ANNOUNCES 4 NEW ROUTES
TO GRENOBLE (FRANCE), KAUNAS (LITHUANIA), POZNAN & LODZ (POLAND)
AT FARES FROM 99p*

Ryanair, Europe’s No. 1 low fares airline, today (Tuesday, 21st June 2005) announced four new routes to France, Lithuania and Poland. The new routes, which will commence on dates between 22nd September and 30th October 2005 will operate daily from London-Stansted to Grenoble, Kaunas, Lodz and Poznan. In addition, Ryanair also announced increased frequency on its existing routes from London Stansted to Derry, Seville, Granada, Riga and Tampere.

COMPARE THE FARES

ONE-WAY FARES FROM:
ROUTE

AIRLINE

RYANAIR

% SAVING
Grenoble*
Easyjet: £29

£0.99

97%
Kaunas**
BA: £57

£3.99

93%
Poznan***
LOT: £87

£3.99

96%
Lodz****
BA: £57

£3.99

93%

Announcing the new routes in London today, Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary, said;

“We launched our first route in Poland just three months ago from London-Stansted to Wroclaw and with these two new routes to Lodz and Poznan, Ryanair will serve more Polish airports (7) directly from London that any other airline.

“We are delighted also to announce our first new route to Kaunas in Lithuania.
This route will operate daily and we expect to carry in excess of 100,000 passengers in our first year of operation.

“Our new daily service to Grenoble in south-east France means that UK passengers need no longer pay the high fares of Easyjet which are over 20 times** more expensive than Ryanair.

“Today’s announcement of increased frequency on our routes from London Stansted to Seville, Granada, Derry, Riga and Tampere will allow us to offer up to double daily flights to each of these exciting cities and will allow us to provide even more low fares and unbeatable punctuality for European consumers.

“These four new routes and additional frequencies will mean an additional 650,000 passengers per annum will save over £65M each year over the high fares charged by other airlines such as Easyjet, British Airways and LOT.”

FARE TABLE
*Fare source: Easyjet website, one-way fares London Luton to Grenoble ex taxes booking 17.06.05, travel 23.09.05
**Fare source: BA website, one-way fares ex taxes from London Heathrow to Vilnius (closest airport) booking 17.06.05 for travel 25.09.05
***Fare source LOT website, one-way fares ex taxes London Heathrow to Poznan (via Warsaw) booking 17.06.05 for travel 23.09.05
****Fare source: BA website, one-way fares ex taxes from London Heathrow to Warsaw (closest airport) booking 17.06.05 for travel 30.10.05
All Ryanair fares one-way ex taxes. Where possible start date of routes have been chosen for comparison

Always having a go at other airlines.

Kaunas is supposedly gonna be called Villnius West, the capital of Lithuania :p