New Services to Edinburgh

Ryanair Holdings PLC
12 July 2001

                        RYANAIR ANNOUNCES NEW SERVICES

                    FOUR DAILY FLIGHTS ON DUBLIN-EDINBURGH


        ALSO INCREASES DUBLIN-GLASGOW FLIGHTS UP TO FOUR FLIGHTS DAILY




Ryanair, Europe's largest Low Fares Airline today (Thursday, 12th July 2001)
announces its arrival on the Dublin-Edinburgh route. Starting on Thursday 30th
August next Ryanair will operate up to four return daily flights between
Edinburgh and Dublin, marking the arrival of really low fares in this
marketplace for the first time. Ryanair also confirms that this Autumn its
successful schedule on the Dublin-Glasgow (Prestwick) route will increase with
the addition of an extra fourth flight on Fridays and Sundays to cater for the
weekend leisure market.


Bookings can be made from today (on www.ryanair.com) for the Edinburgh flights
which begin on Thursday 30th August. Ryanair's fares on the Dublin-Edinburgh
route will start from just £29.99 return (including taxes), and all seats on
all flights for the first 29 days will be sold at this lowest £29.99 return
fare. Thereafter Ryanair's lowest fare of £29.99 return will be guaranteed on
at least 70% of all seats, and our highest fare on the route will be just £
99.99 return (including taxes). Ryanair confirms that its lowest price
guarantee will also apply, to ensure that passengers will always get the
lowest fare only by flying on Ryanair between Edinburgh and Dublin.


Ryanair will fly four times each weekday to Edinburgh, and the schedule (from
30th August to 27th October) is as follows:


Dublin - Edinburgh

FR 812    0650-0750                   1   2   3   4    5       -       -
FR 814    1025-1125                   1   2   3   4    5       6       7
FR 816    1300-1400                   -   -   -   -    -       6       -
FR 816    1420-1520                   1   2   3   4    5       -       -
FR 818    1710-1810                   1   2   3   4    5       -       7

Edinburgh-Dublin

FR 813    0815-0915                   1   2   3   4    5       -       -
FR 815    1150-1250                   1   2   3   4    5       6       7
FR 817    1425-1525                   -   -   -   -    -       6       -
FR 817    1545-1645                   1   2   3   4    5       -       -
FR 819    1835-1935                   1   2   3   4    5       -       7




Michael O'Leary, Chief Executive of Ryanair launching the new services in
Dublin today. He said:


            'Two weeks ago another high fares British Airline announced that
            it was going to enter the Edinburgh-Dublin market providing much
            higher fares and what they called 'competition' to Ryanair. Now
            they should know better. Everyone knows that Ryanair loves
            competition, and any airline that wants to challenge us in the
            Dublin or the Irish market must actually sell low fares and not
            just talk about it.


            'We look forward to giving our Irish and Edinburgh passengers not
            just a choice over the two other high fares airlines, but also
            really low fares. Our lowest fares to Glasgow and Edinburgh are
            just £29.99 return including taxes which are over 35% lower than
            the other's so called low fare of £45 return. Ryanair's highest
            fare of £99.99 return (including taxes) is almost 40% lower than
            the £160 return high fare charged by the others.


            'In Ryanair we just don't talk the talk, we walk the walk. If any
            so called 'low cost' imitator wants to throw down a challenge to
            Ryanair on any of our routes, anywhere, anytime, and any price
            then they may rest assured that we will meet every such challenge
            with more flights, guaranteed lower fares at every price level and
            many thousands more seats every day at these lower prices.


            'The difference between Ryanair and every other so called 'low
            cost' airline is that only Ryanair guarantees the lowest airfares.
            On every route where we compete with Go or Easyjet or anybody else
            Ryanair's fares are lower, and Ryanair's passengers make
            significantly greater savings by flying with Ryanair. Ryanair is
            the largest low fares airline in Ireland, Britain and Europe. Go
            is just another higher fare airline. When it was owned by British
            Airways it was unable to match Ryanair's fares, and now that it is
            backed by '3i's' it still won't be able to match Ryanair's
            airfares. Let the competition begin. You'll never beat the Irish
            ...(well not for low fares anyway)'.


Ryanair's flights to Edinburgh start on the 30th of August next, full details
of the schedules and our lowest fare guarantee are available now, online at
www.ryanair.com - flights can also be booked by calling 01-6097800 (Dublin) or
08701569569 (U.K. only). Everybody should now click or call today because
these guaranteed £29.99 return seats will be selling like hot cakes, because
they are - by far and away - the lowest airfares between Edinburgh and Dublin,
and between Glasgow and Dublin.




ENDS.     Thursday, 12th July 2001

For reference:  Enda O'Toole      Pauline McAlester

Ryanair       Murray Consultants Limited

Tel: [phone]            Tel: [phone]



Ryanair is Europe's largest low fares airline with 55 low fare routes across
12 countries. Ryanair has a fleet of 36 Boeing 737's, orders for up to a
further 30 new 737-800's which will be delivered over the next 4 years.
Ryanair currently employs a team of 1,500 people and will carry 9 million
scheduled passengers in the current year.

www.RYANAIR.COM was launched in January 2000 and is already Europe's largest
travel website. This is the only internet site to guarantee the lowest fares
on the web.