Ryanair announces expansion at Trapani Airport in Sicily

Ryanair has announced that from March 2010, it will base two new aircraft (four in total), open thirteen new routes (thirty-four in total) and deliver two million passengers per annum at Trapani, Sicily which will sustain 2,000 local jobs.

The new routes to Billund, Bratislava, Cagliari, Eindhoven, Genoa, Gothenburg, Ibiza, Karlsruhe (Baden-Baden), Krakow, Maastricht, Memmingen, Trieste and Valencia, beginning in March, and increased frequencies on three existing routes to  Brussels (Charleroi), Frankfurt (Hahn) and Dusseldorf (Weeze) will deliver 2m passengers p.a. and sustain 2,000 jobs in Trapani. Routes from Trapani to Bari, Brindisi and Madrid will continue to operate throughout the winter.

Ryanair celebrated these new aircraft, routes and frequencies increase at Trapani by releasing 250,000 €2 Christmas seats for travel across 500 of its European routes which are available for booking on ryanair.com until midnight Thursday (26th November).

Ryanair’s Ida Buonanno said:

“Ryanair is delighted to announce two new aircraft and 13 new routes to/from Trapani from March which will allow Ryanair to deliver more low fares, competition and choice to even more Italian consumers/visitors.

“Ryanair’s new routes and increased frequencies will deliver 2m passengers p.a. and sustain at least 2,000 local jobs.

“Ryanair celebrates these new aircraft, routes and frequencies increase by releasing 250,000 €2 Christmas seats for travel across over 500 routes in late December.  Seats are available until midnight Thursday and are sure to be snapped up”.