Ryanair opens new base in Malaga

Ryanair today (22nd June) officially opened its newest base at Malaga with 4 based aircraft and 44 routes. 

Ryanair’s Malaga base will grow to over two million passengers per annum, which will sustain 2,000 well paid local jobs including over 200 direct jobs among Ryanair pilots, cabin crew and engineers.  Ryanair will now operate 360 weekly flights to/from Malaga in an investment of over $250 million in the airport.
 
Ryanair celebrated the opening of its Malaga base by releasing 500,000 €10 seats for travel on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays on 500 routes across its European network, which are available for booking on ryanair.com until midnight Thursday (23rd June).
 
Ryanair’s Stephen McNamara said:
 
“Ryanair is delighted to open its Malaga base with 44 low fare routes which will allow Spanish consumers and visitors to beat the recession by choosing Ryanair’s lowest fares and our no fuel surcharge guarantee on exciting destinations all over Europe including France, Italy and Germany among others.  Ryanair’s two million passengers p.a. will sustain 2,000 jobs locally at Malaga Airport.”