Ryanair announce Birmingham - Shannon flights
01.06.07
Ryanair has announced a new route from Birmingham Airport - to Shannon in Ireland. The news appears to be a sign of a thawing of relations between Europe's biggest budget airline and the airport. Ryanair had previously focused its flights from the area at nearby East Midlands Airport, and told Birmingham Airport passengers they were at the wrong airport just last year.
The budget airline said its new Shannon flight from Birmingham would take off on November 7. The service will operate six times weekly and complements Ryanair's 17 weekly flights between Birmingham and Dublin.
The development is part of an additional eight new routes unveiled by Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary from its Shannon base yesterday. The airline will also increase the frequency of flights from Shannon to Edinburgh to a daily service, and expand its offering to Manchester to provide six flights a week.
Ryanair's head of sales and marketing UK, Caroline Baldwin, said: 'Ryanair is delighted to add this additional route from Birmingham which will deliver 85,000 passengers in the first year. The new route goes on sale today and to celebrate we have slashed £20 off all return flights.'
However, in order to make space for the new routes, Ryanair it will cease flights from Shannon to Bournemouth, Lodz and Rome while Biarritz, Carcassonne, Milan, Murcia, Nantes and Venice in November.
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