RYANAIR ANNOUNCES NEW BADEN-BADEN BASE (NO 47)

RNS Number : 8035Q

Ryanair Holdings PLC

25 October 2011

Ryanair ANNOUNCES NEW BADEN-BADEN BASE (No 47)

19 ROUtes & 800,000 paX P.A. IN 4^th GErman BASE

Ryanair, the world's favourite airline, today (25^th Oct) announced it would open its 47^th base at Baden-Baden (Karlsruhe) Airport in March 2012 with two based aircraft and 20 routes, delivering over 800,000 passengers p.a., and sustaining 800 jobs in the Baden region.

In addition to Ryanair's existing 12 Baden-Baden routes Ryanair will open 7 new routes to Faro, Malaga, Palma, Riga, Thessaloniki, Vilnius and Zadar to go on sale on www.ryanair.com tomorrow (26 Oct) and bring to 19 the number of routes served from Baden-Baden by Ryanair in Summer 2012.

Ryanair celebrated its new Baden-Baden (Karlsruhe) base (No 47) by launching 1 million €9.99 seats for travel in late Nov/ early Dec, which are available for booking until midnight Thursday (27 Oct).

In Germany, Ryanair's Michael O'Leary said:

"Ryanair is delighted to announce Baden-Baden (Karlsruhe) as our 47th base with a total of 19 routes on sale on www.ryanair.comfrom tomorrow for summer 2012. Now Baden-Baden consumers/ visitors can beat the recession and escape both Lufthansa and Air Berlin's high fares by switching to Ryanair's lowest fares and enjoy our no fuel surcharge guarantee to 19 exciting destinations in Italy, Portugal, Spain and Scandinavia among others. Ryanair's traffic of 800,000 p.a. will sustain up to 800 jobs at Baden-Baden (Karlsruhe) Airport and in the surrounding region."

RYANAIR'S 19 BADEN-BADEN (KARLSRUHE) ROUTES in 2012

	New		New
Alicante		Porto
Bari		Riga	P
Cagliari		Rome
Faro	P	Tenerife Sth
Gran Canaria		Thessaloniki	P
Girona		Trapani
Lanzarote		Stockholm Skv
London Stn		Vilnius	P
Malaga	P	Zadar	P
Palma	P