RYANAIR has announced two new winter sun holiday routes from Shannon Airport that will deliver and additional 76,000 passengers and support 600 local jobs.
Launching its 2016 winter schedule to 12 destinations on Wednesday, the airline announced that the new winter routes will see a weekly flight to and from Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands and a twice weekly service to Malaga on the spanish mainland.
The winter routes from Shannon also include Berlin (twice weekly), Krakow (twice weekly, Kaunas (once a week), London Gatwick (six weekly), London Stansted (twice daily), Manchester (five weekly), Tenerife (one weekly), Warsaw (twice weekly) and Wroclaw (twice weekly).
According to Ryanair, passengers can now choose from 12 Shannon routes this winter and can look forward to further improvements, as the airline continues its ‘Always Getting Better’ programme, which includes more new routes, new digital features, new cabin interiors and even more low fares.
Ryanair’s Robin Kiely said, “We are pleased to launch our Shannon winter 2016 schedule, with 12 routes in total and two new services to Fuerteventura and Malaga, which will help deliver 760,000 customers per annum and support 600 on-site jobs at Shannon Airport.”
To celebrate these new winter routes to Fuerteventura and Malaga, we are releasing 100,000 seats for sale across our European network from just €19.99, which are available for booking until Monday, July 4 for travel until October. Since these amazing low prices will be snapped up quickly, customers should log onto www.ryanair.com and avoid missing out.”
Head of Aviation Development at Shannon Airport, Declan Power hailed the new winter service routes as “really good news”.
“We have had many requests over recent years for both Fuerteventura and Malaga services. They are popular services for winter breaks to the sun and for golfing trips so we are delighted to be able to deliver again for our passengers,” said Mr Power.
“It is also another very positive commitment by Ryanair at Shannon. In all, the airline will have 12 services from Shannon this winter, offering the type of destinations and frequencies that our passengers want,” he said.
by Alan Jacques
