OREANDA-NEWS. October 31, 2012.   Ryanair, Europe’s only ultra-low cost airline, today (31 Oct) announced 1m passenger growth at 3 North West airports in 2013, adding 1m new passengers and a total of 9 new routes at Manchester, Liverpool and East Midlands airports, which will sustain up to 1,000 new jobs*.
 
Manchester Summer 2013:
•         34 routes, 5 new routes – Corfu, Krakow, Lanzarote, Paphos & Trapani
•         360,000 new passengers (over 2.4m pax)
•         360 new jobs, over 2,400 jobs in total
•         1 new aircraft
 
Liverpool Summer 2013:
•         39 routes, 2 new routes – Lublin & Zadar
•         Over 180,000 new passengers (over 2.1m pax)
•         180 new jobs, over 2,100 jobs in total
 
East Midlands Summer 2013:
•         38 routes, 2 new routes – Marseille & Menorca (Growth on 17 other routes)
•         460,000 new passengers (over 2.3m pax)
•         460 new jobs, over 2,300 jobs in total
•         1 new aircraft
 
To celebrate 1m passenger growth in 2013 and the launch of its Manchester, Liverpool and East Midlands 2013 summer schedules, Ryanair is launching a seat sale with 100,000 seats across its European network at prices starting from just Ј15.99 for travel on Mon, Tues, Wed and Thur in November and December, which are available for booking until midnight  Thur (1 Nov).
 
Ryanair’s 9 new summer routes from Manchester, Liverpool and East Midlands will be available for booking on www.ryanair.com tomorrow.
 
In Manchester today,  Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary said:
 
“Ryanair today celebrates 1m passenger growth at three North West airports, with 9 new routes, which will sustain 1,000 new jobs at Manchester, Liverpool and East Midlands airports.
 
Our 34 Manchester routes (including 5 new to Corfu, Krakow, Lanzarote , Paphos and Trapani), 39 Liverpool routes (including 2 new to Lublin and Zadar) and 38 East Midlands routes (including 2 new to Marseille and Menorca) will deliver almost 7m passengers and sustain over 7,000 jobs at Manchester, Liverpool and East Midlands airports in 2013.”
 
* ACI confirms up to 1,000 ‘on-site’ jobs per 1m passengers