OREANDA-NEWS. November 01, 2012. Ryanair, Europe’s only ultra-low cost airline, today (31 Oct) launched its summer 2013 Manchester schedule which will see Ryanair operate 34 routes, including 5 new routes to Corfu, Krakow, Lanzarote, Paphos and Trapani, 1 new base aircraft and growth on 7 other routes, which will deliver over 360,000 new passengers p.a. (2.4m in total) and sustain over 2,400 “on-site” jobs* at Manchester Airport.
 
To celebrate its Manchester summer 2013 schedule, Ryanair is launching a winter sale with 100,000 seats at prices starting from just Ј15.99 for travel across Europe on Mon, Tues, Wed and Thur in November and December, which are available for booking until midnight Thur (1 Nov).
 
Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary said:
 
“Ryanair is delighted to announce its summer 2013 schedule for Manchester with 34 routes, including 5 new routes to/from Corfu, Krakow, Lanzarote, Paphos and Trapani, and growth on 7 other routes, which will grow Ryanair’s passenger traffic at Manchester by over 360,000 to over 2.4m passengers p.a. and sustain up to 2,400 “on-site” jobs* at Manchester Airport. Ryanair’s summer Manchester routes will be available for booking on www.ryanair.com tomorrow.
 
To celebrate our Manchester summer schedule, Ryanair is launching a seat sale with 100,000 seats on sale at prices starting from Ј15.99, for travel across Europe on Mon, Tues, Wed and Thur in November and December, which are available for booking until midnight Thursday (1 Nov). Since seats at these crazy low prices will be snapped up quickly, we urge passengers to book them immediately on www.ryanair.com.”
 
MAG Chief Executive, Charlie Cornish said:
"Today’s announcement by Ryanair is another sign of its continuing confidence in Manchester and willingness to expand its range of services for our passengers.  We want to work alongside our airlines to grow their services across our airports and the expansion by Ryanair today represents the type of growth opportunities we are actively seeking in the market."