Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (19 July) launched its biggest ever Newcastle summer schedule (2017), with 3 new routes to Faro, Girona and Palma, 5 new summer services to Gdansk, Lanzarote, Tenerife, Warsaw and Wroclaw, and more flights to Alicante, Dublin (double daily) and Malaga, which will deliver 750,000 customers p.a. and support 560* jobs at Newcastle Airport, as Ryanair more than doubles its Newcastle traffic.
Ryanair’s Newcastle summer 2017 schedule will deliver:
3 new routes: Faro (5 wkly), Girona (2 wkly) & Palma (daily)
More flights to: Alicante (daily), Dublin (2 daily) & Malaga (5 wkly)
5 new summer services: Gdansk (2 wkly), Lanzarote (2 wkly), Tenerife (3 wkly),
Warsaw (2 wkly) & Wroclaw (2 wkly)
11 routes in total
50 weekly flights
750,000 customers p.a.
560* “on-site” jobs p.a.
Ryanair is the ideal choice for business and leisure customers, who can now choose from 11 Newcastle routes in summer 2017 and look forward to further improvements, as Ryanair continues its “Always Getting Better” programme, which includes more new routes, new digital features, new cabin interiors and even more low fares.
In Newcastle, Ryanair’s Head of Communications, Robin Kiely said:
“We are pleased to launch our biggest ever Newcastle summer 2017 schedule, 3 months earlier than last year, which includes 3 new routes to Faro, Girona and Palma, the continuation of our winter services to Gdansk, Lanzarote, Tenerife, Warsaw and Wroclaw to summer, and more flights to Alicante, Dublin and Malaga, which will deliver 750,000 customers p.a. and support 560 jobs at Newcastle Airport, as we significantly grow our Newcastle operation.
To celebrate the launch of our Newcastle summer 2017 schedule, we are releasing 100,000 seats for sale across our European network from just £19.99, which are available for booking until Thursday (21 Jul). Since these amazing low prices will be snapped up quickly, customers should log onto www.ryanair.com and avoid missing out.”
John Irving, Business Development Director at Newcastle International Airport, said:
"We are delighted to see Ryanair continue to expand their offering from Newcastle. The new routes to Faro, Girona and Palma increases the choice of flight options to these popular destinations from Newcastle and we expect these flights to be well received by the North East travelling public.”
