Four New Routes Announced

Ryanair Holdings PLC
21 September 2004


                       RYANAIR ANNOUNCES FOUR NEW ROUTES

          Big expansion in Spain and first daily services to Portugal

Ryanair, Europe's No. 1 low fares airline today (Tuesday, 21st September 2004)
announced four new low fares routes from London Stansted to Spain and Portugal.
The new routes, which will commence on dates between the 2nd November 2004 and
the 25th February 2005, will give even greater choice to consumers of Ryanair's
lowest fares. This brings to 78 the number of routes offered by Ryanair from
London Stansted and to 12 the total number of airports served in the Iberian
Peninsula from London.

From London Stansted     Starts                    Starting fares (excl. taxes)
      Valencia           2 Nov                             £0.99
      Almeria            19 Jan                            £0.99
       Porto             19 Jan                            £3.99
      Seville            25 Feb                            £4.99

Announcing the new routes in London today, Ryanair's Chief Executive, Michael
O'Leary said:

        'We opened our first route to Spain in November 2002 and, with this
        announcement today, Ryanair will serve more Spanish airports (10)
        directly from London than any other airline. We are also delighted to
        launch our first scheduled route from London to Portugal with a
        twice-daily service to Porto, Portugal's second largest city. This year
        Ryanair will carry over 4 million passengers on our routes to Spain and
        next year we expect to see that figure rise to 5.5 million.

        'Two of these routes, Valencia and Almeria, have already been announced
        by Easyjet but, as in the case of Barcelona (Girona), Reus and
        Santander, where we compete with them, it is only by flying with Ryanair
        will consumers enjoy the lowest airfares and the best punctuality.
        Easyjet's average fare remains more than 60% higher than Ryanair while
        their on time performance has trailed behind Ryanair's for over 100
        weeks in a row. In total our passengers on these routes will save over
        £86 million against the same services offered by Easyjet.

        'These fantastic new Spanish and Portuguese routes are on sale from
        today at www.ryanair.com from an incredible £0.99 (excluding taxes) and
        at these fantastic prices we urge passengers to book quickly as these
        seats will be in huge demand'.

Ends:                          Tuesday, 21st September 2004

For further information:

Paul Fitzsimmons - Ryanair     Pauline McAlester - Murray Consultants
Tel: [phone]         Tel: [phone]



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