23-Jul-2010 10:09 AM

REG - Ryanair Holdings PLC - Ryanair announces 44th base at Seville

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22-Jul-2010 Ryanair, the World's favourite airline, today (Thursday, 22nd July 2010) announced it would open its 44th base at Seville in November 2010 with two based aircraft and 29 routes (including 10 new routes, which go on sale tomorrow). 

Ryanair will offer over 250 weekly return flights to/from Seville in an investment worth over $140 million in the airport.

Ryanair's 10 new routes from Bari, Eindhoven, London Gatwick, Marseille, Palma, Paris, Santiago, Valencia, Venice Treviso, and Zaragoza will increase Ryanair's traffic at Seville to 1.5m passengers p.a. which will create and sustain 1,500 well paid local jobs.

Ryanair celebrated its new Seville base, two new aircraft, 29 routes and 1.5m passengers p.a. by releasing 500,000 €3 seats for travel across its European network for travel in September and October which are available for booking on www.ryanair.com from midnight tonight until midnight Monday (26th July).

Ryanair's Stephen McNamara said:

"Ryanair is delighted to announce Seville as our 44th base and our 8th Spanish base airport with 10 new routes going on sale tomorrow. With a total of 29 low fare routes from Seville next winter passengers can beat the recession by choosing Ryanair's guaranteed lowest fares and no fuel surcharge to exciting destinations all over Europe including France, Italy and Germany among others. Ryanair's 1.5 million passengers will create and sustain 1,500 jobs locally in Seville."