New Route Announcement

Ryanair Holdings PLC
13 February 2003


   AER RIANTA COST INCREASES LOSE SHANNON RYANAIR'S DAILY FRANKFURT SERVICES

               Kerry Airport wins the business for Irish tourism


Ryanair, Europe's No.1 low fares airline today (Thursday, 13th February 2003)
announced that since the Aer Rianta airport monopoly at Shannon has refused to
withdraw its proposed €6 per passenger cost increase on Ryanair's successful
Shannon-Frankfurt route, Ryanair will reduce capacity on the route from its
present daily service to a weekly service which will operate to/from Shannon on
a Saturday.

However, Ryanair is delighted to announce that Irish tourism (particularly to
the Mid West region) will not suffer as a result of these Aer Rianta cost
increases, because of a new long-term low cost agreement with Kerry Airport
which will mean that Kerry will now enjoy a daily return service from Frankfurt
Hahn. These flights which will commence on Tuesday 1 April, will result in
100,000 passengers travelling between Kerry International Airport and Frankfurt
Hahn and will mean that German visitors to Ireland can continue to avail of very
low air fares, and will continue to account for 84% of the 100,000 passengers
who travel on the route each year.

Ryanair regrets the decision by the Aer Rianta monopoly at Shannon to massively
increase prices on a route that is still developing, and which has now meant
that one of the few remaining scheduled links between Shannon and Continental
Europe has effectively been discontinued. Ryanair remains concerned that the Aer
Rianta airport monopoly at Shannon will attempt to impose similar price
increases on Ryanair's low fare flights between Shannon and Brussels and Shannon
and Paris when the three year new route scheme ends on those two routes in 2004
and 2005 respectively.

The policies of the high cost Aer Rianta monopoly are losing Shannon passengers
and routes, as well as damaging Irish tourism and Irish jobs. It is time this
monopoly was broken up for good, with competing multiple terminals developed at
Dublin Airport and that Cork and Shannon are separated from the dead hand of Aer
Rianta and allowed to develop routes and traffic in the interests of Shannon and
Cork respectively.

Low fares between Kerry International Airport and Frankfurt Hahn go on sale next
Monday, and there are 10,000 seats on sale at an introductory offer of just €19
one way (plus taxes and charges) for travel in the month of April. We urge
passengers to buy now while stocks last at these ridiculously low fares.

Ends.  Thursday, 13th February 2003

For further information

please contact:

Michael Cawley

Ryanair

Tel. [phone]

Pauline McAlester

Murray Consultants

Tel. [phone]


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