Ryanair launches London-eastern European routes

Budget airline Ryanair said today it is launching five new routes from London to eastern Europe.

Ryanair said it would begin daily flights between London Stansted and the Polish cities of Gdansk, Bydgoszcz, Szczecin and Rzeszow at the end of October.

It also announced the launch at the same time of a twice-daily service to the Slovakian capital Bratislava.

Ryanair now runs 229 routes between 20 countries and has 12 European bases and 2,600 staff.