Ryanair to base aircraft at Trapani
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Ryanair announced that from May-09 it will base two aircraft at Trapani and confirmed that it will not open a base at Forli after the airport withdrew the agreement it had reached with Ryanair. Despite the decision not to operate from Forli, Ryanair's new Trapani base will create 2 new domestic and 3 new international routes to/from the island of Sicily.
Ryanair also announced that it will increase the frequency on two existing, domestic (Rome and Milan) routes as it transfers the operation of seven existing routes to Trapani based aircraft.
Ryanair’s new routes will connect Trapani with Paris (Beauvais), Brussels (Charleroi), Oslo (Torp), Venice (Treviso) and Turin. Existing routes to Rome (Ciampino) will increase to a twice daily frequency while Milan (Bergamo) will increase from four frequencies per week to become a daily service.
Ryanair will base 2 brand new Boeing 737-800 series aircraft at Trapani which will operate 15 routes to/from the Sicilian airport, deliver over 1million passengers p.a., sustaining 1,000 local jobs, and save visitors to/from Trapani more than €100m over the high fares and fuel surcharges presently levied by Alitalia. Tourism in Sicily will benefit hugely with over 400,000 extra visitors and an injection of €180 million into the local economy.
Ryanair confirmed that it will now not operate the 6 new domestic routes it had earlier announced from Forli, after the board of the airport withdrew the agreement they had reached with the airline. Ryanair expected to carry over 500,000 passengers to/from Forli in 2009, which would have created 500 new jobs and generated an EUR80M visitor spend in the Emilia-Romagna region, all of which will now be lost as Ryanair concentrates on growing routes and passengers to/ from its other Italian airports. Ryanair’s Forli routes were due to operate to/from Alghero, Bari, Cagliari, Lamezia, Olbia and Palermo from December. Passengers who were booked on these routes will receive a full refund.
To celebrate its new Trapani base and routes, Ryanair released 15,000 EUR10 (all inclusive) seats on their five new routes for travel in May-09.
(c) Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation. Date posted: 31-Oct-08
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