Ryanair (Dublin) has announced its arrival at Lisbon (Ryanair’s third airport in Portugal) with four new routes to Charleroi (near Brussels), Hahn (near Frankfurt), London Stansted and Beauvais (near Paris) from November 2013, which will deliver up to 400,000 passengers per year and sustain some 400 “on-site” jobs at Lisbon Airport with 50 weekly flights.
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In other news, Ryanair and the Manchester Airport Group (MAG), announced that they had concluded a 10 year growth agreement at London Stansted Airport, which will see its traffic at Stansted grow by over 50%, from 13.2 million passengers in 2012 to over 20 million passenger per year in return for a package of lower costs and more efficient facilities at Stansted. This agreement will account for up to 25% of Ryanair’s 5 year growth plan to 2019. Ryanair expects its STN traffic in year 1 of this 10-year deal to grow from 13.2 million to over 14.5 million passengers.
Ryanair has today released its Stansted summer 2014 schedule with a total of 120 routes, including four new routes to Bordeaux, Dortmund, Lisbon and Rabat, which will feature:
- 43 aircraft based at Stansted (up from 37)
- 120 routes (up from 116)
- 4 new routes to Bordeaux, Dortmund, Lisbon & Rabat
- Over 2,000 weekly flights Free (up from 1,800)
- Traffic growth from 13.2m to 20m pa over
- Up to 7,000 new jobs created at Stansted over a 5 year period
Finally, Ryanair has promised to transform its “abrupt culture” to a softer and gentler approach in order to win over new customers! Admitting it has customer services issues for the first time, Ryanair has also promised to set up “complaint channels”. Is this the “new Ryanair”?
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