Experiencing 20% growth at Budapest Airport in 2016, Ryanair continues to expand and announces the commencement of three further links from the Hungarian gateway: Budapest’s first link to Valencia, as well as new connections to Edinburgh and Prague.
Fifteen new routes deliver 20% growth, 5m. customers.
Ryanair launched its biggest-ever Scottish winter schedule, with 13 new Edinburgh routes to Baden, Budapest, Carcassonne, Eindhoven, Hamburg, Katowice, Nantes, Prague, Szczecin, Toulouse, Venice, Valencia and Wroclaw (38 in total), and 2 new Glasgow routes to Krakow and Madrid (17 in total), which will deliver 20% growth and over 5m customers p.a. in total at Ryanair’s 4 Scottish Airports and supporting 3,750 jobs.
Ryanair will continue to connect Scotland with major business centres on high frequency, low fare services including Berlin (daily), Dublin (6 daily), London (7 daily) and Rome (daily), with better timings and lower fares, making Ryanair the ideal choice for Scottish business and leisure customers, as these new routes will go on sale in February 2017.
Ryanair’s Scotland Winter 2017 schedule will deliver:
Edinburgh
- 13 new routes: Baden (2 weekly), Budapest (2), Carcassonne (2), Eindhoven (3), Hamburg (2), Katowice (2), Nantes (2), Prague (3), Szczecin (2), Toulouse (2), Venice Treviso (3), Valencia (3) and Wroclaw (2)
- Extra flights to Copenhagen (5 weekly) and Fuerteventura (2)
- 38 routes in total
- 2.8m customers p.a. (+14%)
Glasgow International
- 2 new routes to Krakow (2 weekly) and Madrid (4)
- 17 routes in total
- 1.4m customers p.a. (+ 24%)
Glasgow Prestwick
- 9 routes in total (including Alicante, Lanzarote andTenerife)
- 675,000 customers p.a. (+4%)
Aberdeen
- 2 routes to Alicante and Malaga
- 80,000 customers p.a.
Ryanair’s Scotland summer 2017 schedule is attracting record bookings, with more frequencies to sun destinations for summer family holidays, lower fares as Ryanair passes on lower fuel costs, and an even better customer experience, as it continues to roll out its “Always Getting Better” improvements.
In Edinburgh, Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary said: “We are pleased to launch our biggest-ever Scotland winter schedule, with 15 new routes and 20% growth which will deliver over 5 m customers p.a. and support 3,750 jobs at Ryanair’s four Scottish Airports. We are also pleased to report record bookings on our Scottish summer 2017 schedule, and Scottish customers can look forward to even lower fares, so there’s never been a better time to book a low fare flight on Ryanair. We urge all customers who wish to book their holidays to do so now on the Ryanair.com website or mobile app, where they can avail of the lowest fare air travel to and from Scotland.
We call on the Scottish Government to follow the Irish example and scrap APD entirely to allow Scottish traffic, tourism and jobs to grow and ensure Scottish airports can compete and attract more business. The scrapping of APD would enable Ryanair to base more aircraft in Scotland, add even more new routes and and create thousands of additional jobs.
To celebrate the launch of our Scotland winter 2017 schedule we are releasing seats for sale across our European network from just £9.99, which are available for booking until midnight Monday (20 Feb). Since these amazing low prices will be snapped up quickly, customers should log onto ryanair.com and avoid missing out.”
Budapest Airport announces Ryanair expansion
Budapest Airport, having already confirmed 12 new routes for 2017, continues to enhance its route network and announces Ryanair will be launching a further three new routes. Having recorded 20% growth in passenger numbers from the Hungarian gateway last year, Ryanair is continuously-expanding services from Budapest, the low-cost carrier (LCC) confirming new links to Valencia, Edinburgh and Prague.
Launching Budapest’s first connection to Valencia, Ryanair will add a link to Spain’s third-largest city. Since witnessing the number of indirect passengers between the cities doubling year-on-year, Ryanair will be filling an attractive gap in the market facing no direct competition on the airport pair. As Budapest’s fifth-largest O&D pair in mainland Spain last year, Valencia now joins the gateway’s existing Spanish links to Malaga, Alicante, Ibiza and Palma de Mallorca.
Confirming the expansion of another two of Budapest’s links, Ryanair will also commence services to Edinburgh and Prague later this year.Joining existing connections to both destinations, the LCC will provide additional options for Budapest’s passengers.
Commenting on the announcement, Balazs Bogats, Head of Airline Development, Budapest Airport, said: “Budapest welcomes this announcement from Ryanair and is delighted to see that one of the largest white spots on our route map will now be filled with our partner’s link to Valencia.” He added: “Ryanair continues to grow with us, with these new destinations the airline will now offer 26 destinations from Budapest.”
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