Ryanair
today (19 Dec) announced it would open its 1st Greek
base (55th base in total) at Chania in April 2013
with one based aircraft and unveiled 10 new routes (26 in total),
to/from Billund, Bremen, Bristol, Eindhoven, Katowice, Memmingen,
Thessaloniki, Venice, Vilnius and Warsaw, as Ryanair invests over
$70m at Chania Airport.
Ryanair
will grow at Chania as follows:
- 1 based aircraft
- 10 new routes (25 in total):
- Billund, Bremen, Bristol, Eindhoven, Katowice, Memmingen, Thessaloniki, Venice, Vilnius & Warsaw
- 106 weekly flights (up 89%)
- 500,000 pax p.a (up 100%)
-
500*
“on site” jobs
Ryanair
celebrated its new Chania base by launching a 100,000 seat sale with
fares starting from £8 for travel across its European network in
January which are available for booking until midnight (24:00hrs)
Thur (20 Dec). Ryanair’s 10 new Chania routes will begin in April
and will go on sale on www.ryanair.comtomorrow.
In
Chania today, Ryanair’s Kate Sherry said:
“Ryanair
is delighted to announce Chania as our 55th base
(and our first in Greece) and to unveil 10 new routes (25 in total)
to/ Billund, Bremen, Bristol, Eindhoven, Katowice, Memmingen,
Thessaloniki, Venice, Vilnius and Warsaw beginning in April, as part
of our summer 2013 schedule, which go on sale
onwww.ryanair.com tomorrow.
Visitors
to Greece can now beat the recession and escape high fares and fuel
surcharging by switching to Ryanair’s lowest fares and our no fuel
surcharge guarantee between Chania and 25 European destinations,
including Edinburgh, London and Milan, amongst others. Ryanair’s
500,000 passengers p.a. will sustain up to 500 “on site” jobs in
Chania, in a welcome boost to the Cretian economy, as we grow our
passenger traffic by 100% at Chania.
To
celebrate our new Chania base, we are launching a 100,000 seat sale
with fares starting from £8 for travel across Europe in January,
which are available for booking until midnight Thursday (20 Dec).
Since seats at these crazy low prices will be snapped up quickly, we
urge passengers to book them immediately onwww.ryanair.com.”
*
ACI confirms up to 1,000 ‘on-site’ jobs per 1m passengers
