Ryanair offers free one-way flights

Ryanair is giving away 300,000 free one-way tickets on flights to 30 European destinations.

The tickets will only be sold on the airline's website.

They are for travel from December 1-18 this year and from January 8-31, 2002.

Passengers will only pay the £5 UK airport departure tax plus the relevant airport passenger service charge of between £3.50 and £5.

A total of 200,000 tickets will be available on flights from Stansted airport in Essex, 50,000 from Prestwick airport in Scotland and 50,000 from Ryanair's Belgian hub at Charleroi airport.

Destinations which the offer extends to include Venice, Turin, Salzburg, Oslo and Stockholm.

The free offer is limited to flights on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and some Saturday departures.