Flying high … new sun routes

Ryanair is to beef up its offering from Manchester Airport with new flights to Madrid, Alicante, Tenerife and Faro. The move comes 18 months after the airline axed most of its flights from Manchester, saying the airport charges were too high.

In addition to the Spanish and Portuguese routes, Ryanair is increasing frequencies on its Manchester-Dublin route (from four to six flights per day).

Michael O’Leary, speaking in Manchester, said: “We expect Ryanair’s five Manchester routes to deliver 600,000 passengers and sustain 600 jobs in Manchester while saving passengers over £6m in 2011 on the fares offered by Manchester’s high fares airlines.”

The new services will put Ryanair head to head with the likes of easyJet, Monarch and Jet2 on the sun routes and Aer Lingus on the Dublin flights. The flights will commence on 14 April and will be on sale on ryanair.com from tomorrow (Thursday, 27 January). One-way flights will be priced from £29.99 including taxes.

The carrier is also launching flights to Alicante from Humberside Airport. The twice-weekly service will start on 12 April.

To mark the news, the airline has released one million £7 seats for travel in February.

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