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Ryanair announces new route from Leeds Bradford

Ryanair (FR/RYR) has today announced a new twice-weekly route from Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA/EGNM) to Poznan, Poland. The new winter route starts on 4th December 2021 and operates until March 2022. Ryanair’s Director of Commercial, Jason Mc Guinness, said: “As Europe’s No.1 airline, Ryanair remains committed to re-building Europe’s aviation [read more]

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Ryanair reports 50% traffic rise over 2020

Ryanair (FR/RYR) has reported group wide traffic figures that saw traffic for September 2021 increase to 10.6m compared to 5.6m in the same month last year. The figures are a clear indicator of the state of international air travel as we the industry emerges from the Coronavirus pandemic. The group [read more]

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Ryanair: 6 new winter routes from Birmingham

Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has announced six new routes from Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) for Winter 2021/22. From October, new destinations from Birmingham will include Bergamo, Lisbon, Bucharest, Shannon, Turin and Vilnius. The new routes bring the total of winter routes from Birmingham with Ryanair to 28 this season. Ryanair’s [read more]

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Ryanair: August traffic up 45%

Ryanair has released figures showing that its traffic in August 2021 was 45% higher than the same period in 2020. The airline says it carried 11.1m passengers in August compared to just 7m last year when UK passengers were only allowed to travel for essential reasons. The figures show the [read more]

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Ryanair turns back on Southend

Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) is turning its back on London Southend airport after it announced it was closing its base on the 1st November. Southend has already lost rival budget airline EasyJet (U2/EZY) as a result of the airport courting Ryanair to operate from there on competing routes. Eskin [read more]

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Ryanair to open Newcastle base

Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has announced it is to open a two-aircraft base at Newcastle Airport (NCL/EGNT) in 2022. The move follows high demand for the airline’s flights from Newcastle and will see it add a further 12 routes from the North-eastern gateway. Opening the base will see Ryanair [read more]

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Ryanair outlines Manchester & Liverpool recovery plans

Ryanair (FR/RYR) has outlined its planned recovery schedule for Manchester (MAN/EGCC) and Liverpool (LPL/EGGP) airports. As air travel begins to recover from the Coronavirus pandemic and the lifting of restrictions in England the airline hopes to be able to deliver a significant increase in its operations. Manchester Airport will see [read more]