Frankfurt expansion boosts airline’s presence

RYANAIR is to boost its presence in Germany with a major expansion at its base outside Frankfurt.

The company will base an extra 18 aircraft at Frankfurt-Hahn, which it said would be used to operate 50 routes carrying eight million passengers a year and supporting 8,000 jobs.

The expansion programme, which will be staggered between 2006 and 2012, will make Frankfurt-Hahn the airline’s second-biggest base after London Stansted, pushing Dublin into third place.