Ryanair Air announces 20th Bristol base

Ryanair, Europe's largest low fares airline, today announced its twentieth European base at Bristol Airport. From November, Ryanair will invest $140m in two new Boeing 737-800 aircraft which will operate 16* routes to / from Bristol delivering over 1m passengers in 2008 and doubling to 2m passengers in 2009.

Announcing Ryanair's twentieth base, Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary said: "Ryanair's base will deliver a fivefold increase in our passenger numbers at Bristol and will transform air travel in the south-west by allowing even more passengers to enjoy Bristol's and Europe's lowest fares, guaranteed.

"This investment will deliver passenger savings of over £30m per annum compared to Easyjet's high fares while generating a visitor spend of £250m which will sustain 2,000 jobs in the region.

"To celebrate, Ryanair is offering 100,000 seats from Bristol for £10, including taxes and charges, for one week only, on www.ryanair.com. This is half the price of Easyjet's latest attempt to reduce their high fares and we urge passengers to book immediately as demand for Ryanair's lowest fares, guaranteed, will be very strong."

Route - Starts – Frequency

Bratislava - November - 3 weekly
Budapest - November - 4 weekly
Derry - November - Daily
Dinard - November - 3 weekly
Katowice - November - 3 weekly
Knock - November - 4 weekly
Milan - November - Daily
Porto - November - 3 weekly
Poznan - November - 3 weekly
Riga - November - 3 weekly
Rzeszow - November - 2 weekly
Salzburg - December - 2 weekly
Wroclaw - November - 4 weekly

* three existing routes are Barcelona (Girona), Dublin and Shannon