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Ryanair, Europe’s No. 1 low fares airline today (21st September 2004) announced four new low fares routes from London Stansted to Spain and Portugal. The new routes, which will commence on dates between the 2nd November 2004 and the 25th February 2005, will give even greater choice to consumers at Ryanair’s lowest fares. This brings to 78 the number of routes offered by Ryanair from London Stansted and to 12 the total number of airports served in the Iberian Peninsula from London.
From London Stansted Starts Starting fares (excl. taxes)
Valencia 2 Nov £0.99
Almeria 19 Jan £0.99
Porto 19 Feb £3.99
Seville 25 Feb £4.99
Announcing the new routes in London today, Ryanair’s Chief Executive, Michael O’Leary said “We opened our first route to Spain in November 2002 and, with this announcement today, Ryanair will serve more Spanish airports (10) directly from London than any other airline. We are also delighted to launch our first scheduled route from London to Portugal with a twice-daily service to Porto, Portugal’s second largest city. This year Ryanair will carry over 4 million passengers on our routes to Spain and next year we expect to see that figure rise to 5.5 million.
Two of these routes, Valencia and Almeria, have already been announced by Easyjet but, as in the case of Barcelona (Girona), Reus and Santander, where we compete with them, it is only by flying with Ryanair will consumers enjoy the lowest airfares and the best punctuality. Easyjet’s average fare remains more than 60% higher than Ryanair while their on time performance has trailed behind Ryanair’s for over 100 weeks in a row. In total our passengers on these routes will save over £86 million against the same services offered by Easyjet.
These fantastic new Spanish and Portuguese routes are on sale today at http://www.ryanair.com from an incredible £0.99 (excluding taxes) and at these fantastic prices we urge passengers to book quickly as these seats will be in huge demand.â€