Ryanair announces 18 new routes from Dublin

Ryanair today announced a major expansion of its operations at Dublin Airport.

From April 2006 the airline will base five new Boeing 737-800 series aircraft in Dublin. These new aircraft will allow Ryanair to open up 18 new routes from Dublin to Continental Europe, generating over 250 direct Ryanair jobs.

Frequencies will also increase on eight existing Dublin-Europe routes and this additional capacity will allow Ryanair’s traffic at Dublin to grow from 5.5m to 7m passengers annually.

The new routes are:

FRANCE - Marseille, Nantes and La Rochelle

GERMANY - Baden (Stuttgart) and Hamburg

POLAND - Krakow, Poznan and Wroclaw

ITALY - Milan and Venice

SWEDEN - Gothenburg and Malmo

SPAIN - Valencia

PORTUGAL - Porto

AUSTRIA - Salzburg

SLOVAKIA - Bratislava

LITHUANIA - Kaunas

UK - Humberside

There will also be increased services to Barcelona, Faro, Cardiff, Malaga, Carcassonne, Biarritz and Lodz.