Ryanair (FR), Europe’s largest low-cost carrier, will open a base at Paphos International, Cyprus, in April with two Boeing 737-800s operating more than 80 weekly flights on 14 routes. It will be FR’s 50th base.
In December, FR announced it will open its 49th base at Palma Airport in March with four based aircraft operating 47 routes, of which 17 are new (ATW Daily News, Nov. 2, 2011). It will cut back its presence in Alicante because it says that airport operator AENA is mandating the use of unnecessary air bridges that will require it to pay fees of some €2 million ($2.5 million) per year.
FR said the Cyprus base represents an investment of $140 million and will initially deliver some 600,000 passengers per year and sustain over 600 jobs.
The routes are to Chania, Frankfurt Hahn, Kaunas, Krakow, London, Memmingen, Milan, Oslo, Patras, Pisa, Rome Ciampino, Stockholm, Treviso and Thessaloniki in Greece.
FR also announced it will expand its base at Girona (GRO) this summer, growing the number of based aircraft from four to nine and adding 19 new routes to Aarhus, Bydgoszcz, Cagliari, Cork, Doncaster, Dusseldorf, Gdansk, Ibiza, Knock, Krakow, Madrid, Malmo, Nador, Perugia, Poitiers, Skelleftea, Stockholm, Thessaloniki and Turku. This will bring its network at the Spanish airport to 59 routes.
FR said its traffic at GRO will grow to 3 million passengers per year. The carrier flew 76.4 million passengers in 2011, up 5% from 72.7 million in 2010.
source: http://atwonline.com/airports-routes/news/ryanair-open-base-cyprus-0110
In December, FR announced it will open its 49th base at Palma Airport in March with four based aircraft operating 47 routes, of which 17 are new (ATW Daily News, Nov. 2, 2011). It will cut back its presence in Alicante because it says that airport operator AENA is mandating the use of unnecessary air bridges that will require it to pay fees of some €2 million ($2.5 million) per year.
FR said the Cyprus base represents an investment of $140 million and will initially deliver some 600,000 passengers per year and sustain over 600 jobs.
The routes are to Chania, Frankfurt Hahn, Kaunas, Krakow, London, Memmingen, Milan, Oslo, Patras, Pisa, Rome Ciampino, Stockholm, Treviso and Thessaloniki in Greece.
FR also announced it will expand its base at Girona (GRO) this summer, growing the number of based aircraft from four to nine and adding 19 new routes to Aarhus, Bydgoszcz, Cagliari, Cork, Doncaster, Dusseldorf, Gdansk, Ibiza, Knock, Krakow, Madrid, Malmo, Nador, Perugia, Poitiers, Skelleftea, Stockholm, Thessaloniki and Turku. This will bring its network at the Spanish airport to 59 routes.
FR said its traffic at GRO will grow to 3 million passengers per year. The carrier flew 76.4 million passengers in 2011, up 5% from 72.7 million in 2010.
source: http://atwonline.com/airports-routes/news/ryanair-open-base-cyprus-0110
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