Ryanair, Italy’s favourite airline, today (26 June) celebrated 25 years of operations in Italy and 4 million passengers passing through Ancona Airport. Ryanair’s love affair with Italy first began back in 1998 and the airline’s first flight to Ancona first flew from London-Stansted in 1999.

Since then, Ryanair has grown significantly in Ancona adding domestic and international routes, driving traffic and tourism recovery post-Covid, delivering over 230k passengers p.a. and carrying over 3.9 million passengers to date.

Ryanair is offering its Summer ’23 schedule for Ancona with 5 routes, incl. 1 new route to Catania. This schedule will see Ryanair achieve 13% growth on S22 and reach 38% market share, in the year of its “silver wedding” anniversary with Italy.

To celebrate 25 years of operations in Italy and 4 million passengers passing through Ancona Airport, customers/visitors can now book a well-deserved Summer getaway from just €25 one way for travel until Oct ‘23 on the Ryanair.com website

Speaking in Ancona, Ryanair’s Country Manager for Italy, Mauro Bolla said:

“As Italy’s favourite airline, Ryanair is excited to celebrate 25 years of operations in Italy and 4 million passengers at Ancona Airport with our Summer ’23 schedule. Over the past almost quarter century, Ryanair has grown to carry over 3.9 million passengers in/out of Ancona and has invested in connecting Italian regions with domestic flights incl. Catania, and international routes such as Brussels, Dusseldorf, London and more.

Our Summer ‘23 schedule offers 5 routes incl. 1 exciting new route to Catania offering Ancona’s customers/visitors even more choice for their summer holidays at the lowest fares in Europe. Since we first touched down in Italy 25 years ago, we have grown to become Italy’s favourite airline. As a result, we understand how important it is to connect with loved ones and that’s why we are committed to growing even further in Italy over the next 25 years.

To celebrate 25 years in Italy and 4 million passengers through Ancona Airport we are offering seats from just €25 one way for travel until Oct ’23 at www.Ryanair.com.

On behalf of Ryanair, I am therefore pleased to offer to Mr. Nicola Bombagi and Mrs Rina Maher-Bombang 2 vouchers to travel from Ancona to any destination in our network, wishing them to sit back, relax and enjoy their flight with Ryanair.

We are “Made for Italy”.

Alexander D’Orsogna, CEO of Ancona International Airport added:

“The decades-long cooperation with Ryanair is of fundamental importance for Ancona Airport and its catchment area. The close collaboration with the main European low cost company over the years has led to the opening of interesting destinations from a touristic, economic and ethnic point of view. We hope that our collaboration will become ever deeper with new routes in the future.

On this important occasion, we are pleased to announce the names of the awarded passengers: Mr. Nicola Bombagi and Mrs Rina Maher-Bombang , they are 42 and 44 years old and today they boarded the flight to FR125: they are the 4 million Ryanair passengers at Ancona Airport. Ryanair has decided to reward them with two return tickets to one of the destinations reachable from our airport. We wish them a safe journey on board Ryanair!”

Francesco Acquaroli, President of the Marche Region said:

“Today we celebrate together with the airport an important milestone marked by Ryanair, which makes us look to the future with optimism. The Region is betting heavily on the implementation of airport connections and routes, as a flywheel for the economic and tourism development of our region, on the airport as a strategic infrastructure within the intermodal hub together with the port and the airport. A great opportunity for the revitalization and growth of the whole territory. To be competitive we must be reachable, and for this reason together with ATIM and the airport we are working on promoting the territory and launching new routes.”

Marco Bruschini, president of ATIM said:

“Celebrating 24 years of Ryanair in Ancona together means working together to improve the reputation of the Marche region in international markets. The synergy between ATIM and the airport and the effort made to establish the Marche brand as a destination are beginning to bear fruit. Tourists are realizing that Marche is worth preferring as a territory of authentic traditions and unexpected excellence, and Marche Airport is increasingly the gateway to this wonderful and fascinating world.”