3rd Sep 2015 09:17
LONDON (Alliance News) - Irish budget carrier Ryanair Holdings PLC on Thursday announced its summer 2016 schedule for its Dublin operations, following on from the publication of its London airports schedule a day earlier.
Ryanair said it will start operating a new route to and from Amsterdam in October this year and will operate a total of 83 routes, with extra flights on 14 of these, by summer 2016.
It will operate 742 weekly flights from Dublin in summer 2016 and said it expects its customer numbers to grow by 1.1 million to 11.8 million.
On Wednesday, the company published the schedule for its London airport operations for summer 2016, covering Stansted, Gatwick and Luton. The schedule includes new routes to and from Milan and Verona in Italy, Sofia in Bulgaria and Vilnius in Lithuania.
As part of the new routes to Milan Malpensa airport in Italy, Ryanair will open a new base at the airport in December this year, initially with one aircraft and operating four routes to Stansted, Comiso airport in Sicily, Bucharest in Romania and Seville in Spain. It will be its 15th base in Italy.
The airline will operate 5% more weekly flights from Stansted, 12% more from Gatwick and 13% more from Luton over the 2016 summer period.
Shares in Ryanair were up 2.5% to EUR12.83 on Thursday.
By Sam Unsted; [email protected]; @SamUAtAlliance
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