Take Your Friend On A Break For Free!
Ryanair, Europe’s No. 1 airline, is today (Thurs, 24th Sept) and for the first time in Ryanair history launching a ‘Buy One Get One Free’ offer on 1,600 routes across its network, for travel from 25th Sept until 14th Dec 2020. This autumn Ryanair is offering you, your close friends and family members the deal of all deals – flights for free!
This amazing offer applies to Value Fare bookings with more than one passenger, travelling on selected routes to top destinations (T&Cs apply). Customers only have until midnight tonight (24th Sept) to avail of this deal and must be quick visiting the Ryanair.com website to avail of these limited flights. Who doesn’t love a freebie?
Ryanair’s Head of Communications, Alejandra Ruiz, said:
“For the first time in Ryanair history, we have a “Buy One Get One Free” offer landing. Anyone would be crazy to miss it! Book today for travel from 25th Sept until 14th Dec 2020 across 1,600 routes and get a second ticket on the same flight for free.
Customers can book this unmissable deal to top holiday and city break destinations across Europe, bringing their family or close friends on a well-needed autumn/winter escape. To avail of these special offer customers must be quick and visit the Ryanair.com website to book their flights before midnight, tonight 24th September.”
32 ROUTEs (2 NEW), 2 based aircraft, $200m investment
Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (23 Sept) announced it will open a new base at Paris Beauvais, from 3rd December 2020, with 2 based aircraft (an investment of $200m) and 32 routes (2 new to/from Paphos and Manchester) connecting Paris to 13 countries across Europe.
Ryanair’s new Paris Beauvais base will deliver:
- 2 based aircraft ($200m investment)
- 2 new routes to Paphos & Manchester (both with twice weekly services)
- Connections to business hubs such as Barcelona, Dublin, Lisbon, Madrid & Milan; holiday destinations including Alicante, Bari, Faro or Thessaloniki; and city break options such as Krakow, Rome & Porto.
- 32 routes in total
- Over 105 weekly flights
- Over 2,300 direct and indirect jobs
Paris consumers and visitors can now book a getaway as far out as October 2021, flying on the lowest fares ever to business and leisure destinations including Barcelona, Milan, Faro or Thessaloniki. To celebrate its new base, Ryanair has launched a seat sale with fares available from just €9.99, for travel in October & November, which must be booked by midnight Friday (25 Sept) only on the Ryanair.com website.
Ryanair’s Director of Commercial, Jason McGuinness said:
“We are delighted to announce a $200 million investment at Ryanair’s fourth French base in Paris Beauvais Airport. This development will create over 2,300 direct and indirect jobs at a time when other airlines, including Air France retrench and reduce capacity and investment, despite receiving €7bn in discriminatory State Aid.
We are also pleased to announce the launch of our Paris Beauvais winter schedule, with 32 routes in total, including two new services to Paphos & Manchester (both twice weekly) and connections to exciting business and leisure destinations such as Barcelona, Milan, Faro and Thessaloniki.
We are delighted to conclude this long term investment with Paris Beauvais, who continue to work to deliver efficient operations and competitive airport charges, which offers the means for traffic growth and new routes at Ryanair’s fourth French base.
To celebrate, we are releasing seats for sale from €9.99 for travel in October & November, available until midnight on Friday (25 Sept). Since these amazing low fares will be snapped up quickly, customers should log onto www.ryanair.com to avoid missing out.”
François Rubichon, Paris Beauvais Airport’s Chairman of the board, said:
“Paris-Beauvais airport is delighted for this achievement and to see such a mark of confidence from our first airline partner, the leading European carrier, Ryanair.
Our historic relationship has been strengthened and is now evolving to a new dimension with this operational base, its jobs and the potential developments it will allow, especially in such challenging times for air transport.
Finally, Paris-Beauvais airport is the first base announced by Ryanair in Europe since the beginning of the crisis and materializes the hard work carried out for several months between SAGEB and Ryanair teams. All the employees and partners are looking forward to welcome the first 2 aircraft and its crews on the 3rd December 2020″.
Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (23 Sept) announced it will extend the waiving of its flight change fee for all customers who book to travel in October and November 2020, giving them peace of mind and greater flexibly if their travel plans change.
Customers who book for travel in October and November will be able to change their flights with zero change fee to travel until the 21st March 2021. Changes must be made at least 7 days prior to the departure date of the original booking.
Ryanair’s Director of Marketing & Digital, Dara Brady said:
“In order to provide as much flexibility and confidence as possible for our customers this autumn, we have extended the waiving of our flight change fee to October and November bookings. Customers can now plan a well-deserved break knowing that if their plans change they can move their flights to any new date up to March 21st 2021 without additional fees”.
Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (22 Sept) announced a new Leeds route to Vilnius, flying 3 times per week from 26th October 2020 as part of Ryanair’s British Winter 2020 schedule.
British consumers and visitors can now book a winter getaway to Vilnius as far out as March 2021, flying on the lowest fares and with a new set of health measures that Ryanair has rolled out to protect its customers and crew.
To celebrate, Ryanair has launched a seat sale with fares available from just £19.99, for travel from 26th October until December 2020, which must be booked by midnight Thursday (24th September), only on the Ryanair.com website.
Ryanair’s Director of Commercial Jason McGuinness said:
“Ryanair is pleased to launch a new Leeds route to Vilnius, from 26th October 2020, which will operate 3 times every week as part of our British Winter 2020 schedule. Customers in Leeds can now book flights to Vilnius as far out as March 2021.”
To celebrate this new route, we are launching a seat sale with fares available from just £19.99, for travel from now until December 2020, which must be booked by midnight Thursday (24th September). Since these amazing low fares will be snapped up quickly, customers should log onto www.ryanair.com and avoid missing out.”
Calls On Transport Minister Ryan To Finally Take Action
Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline, today (Fri 18th Sept) announced that it would cut its October capacity by a further 20% (in addition to the 20% cut already announced in mid-August). Ryanair now expects its Oct capacity to fall from 50% to approx. 40% of its Oct 2019 levels, but expects to maintain a 70%+ load factor at this reduced schedule.
Ryanair confirmed that these capacity reductions were necessary due to damage caused to forward bookings by continuous changes in EU Government travel restrictions and policies, many of which are introduced at short notice, which undermine consumers’ willingness to make forward bookings. In some countries (most notably Ireland), where the Govt have maintained excessive and defective travel restrictions since 1 July, Covid-19 rates have risen in recent weeks to 50 per 100,000 pop. – more than double those of Germany and Italy – where intra-EU air travel was freely permitted since 1 July.
Ryanair welcomes the EU Commission’s plan to remove intra-EU travel restrictions, subject only to the ECDC weekly update on Covid case / positive test trend rates by EU country and region, and calls for this coordinated approach to be immediately implemented by all EU States, especially Ireland, so that EU citizens can make essential bookings for business and family travel, free from the worry of flight cancellations and/or defective quarantine restrictions.
A Ryanair Spokesperson said:
“We are disappointed to reduce our Oct capacity from 50% of 2019 to 40%. However, as customer confidence is damaged by Government mismanagement of Covid travel policies, many Ryanair customers are unable to travel for business or urgent family reasons without being subjected to defective 14 day quarantines.
While it is too early yet to make final decisions on our winter schedule (from Nov to Mar), if current trends and EU Governments’ mismanagement of the return of air travel and normal economic activity continue, then similar capacity cuts may be required across the winter period.
We call on Transport Minister Eamon Ryan to explain why over 2 months later he still hasn’t implemented any of the 14 recommendations of the Governments Aviation Task Force which were submitted to Government on 7 July last. He should also explain why NPHET has kept Ireland locked up like North Korea since 1 July, while at the same time Italy and Germany removed all intra-EU travel restrictions and have delivered Covid case rates which are less than half the rate, which NPHET has presided over in Ireland. Intra EU air travel is not the problem and these defective travel bans are not a solution.”
Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, and the Erasmus Student Network today (15 Sep) celebrated the launch of their fourth year partnership. Delivered as part of Ryanair’s customer care improvements, this partnership offers Erasmus students a dedicated ESN booking platform on the Ryanair.com website, where they can avail of 10% flight discounts on 4 one-way flights and a free checked-in bag with every flight booked.
Since 2017, ESN students have travelled with even lower fares across the Ryanair network with Italy and Spain being the most popular destinations over the last three years with over 95,000 bookings made on flights to Italy and 80,000 to Spain.
The fourth year of the exclusive partnership is now live on the Ryanair.com website, and students from over 500 Universities across almost 50 countries can now avail of these exclusive travel discounts with Ryanair.
Matthew Krasa, Ryanair’s Head of Public Affairs said:
“Ryanair and ESN have done more than any other organisations to promote European student mobility over the past three decades. We are pleased to launch the fourth year of our exclusive partnership with the Erasmus Student Network, offering university students across Europe a range of exclusive flight offers, free bags and tailored discounts to suit their budget on our Erasmus Student Network dedicated platform. ESN students have travelled on even lower fares since the beginning of the ESN partnership in 2017, with over 175,000 booking made to travel to Italy and Spain, the most popular destinations. We hope many more ESN students will avail of these fantastic discounts over the coming months and years.
Any Erasmus student with a valid ESNcard can sign up via the “MyRyanair” registration service and save even more while they travel on Europe’s biggest airline with the widest route network and the lowest fares.”
Kostantinos Giannidis, President of ESN said:
“In times where student mobility is facing many challenges due to the global pandemic, Erasmus Student Network and Ryanair are continuing providing incentives to students to make their mobility experience more affordable. Thanks to Ryanair and this partnership thousands of Erasmus+ students benefit from extra services and discounts. Ryanair understands the values of the Erasmus+ program in building a more inclusive society and it’s an active contributor to the Erasmus Generation.”
For more information visit https://www.ryanair.com/ie/en/plan-trip/explore/erasmus
Malta Air, today (09 Sept) have launched its local charity partnership with Puttinu Cares, supporting Maltese families of children requiring cancer treatment abroad by providing accommodation for family members travelling with the children.
Puttinu Cares – Chosen Maltese Charity Partner – aim is to support family members of children who need to go abroad to pursue any kind of further treatment. Puttinu Cares is there for all accommodation requirements for the accompanying family, facilitating a home away from home. This alleviates a huge burden, since when a child gets sick parents don’t have to shoulder the expense of accommodation to be able to stay with their child in hospital and care for them in between stays.
Malta Air CEO Diarmuid O’Conghaile said:
“We are proud to announce our partnership with such an important local charity, Puttinu Cares, and we are pleased to be associated with the important work they do. Malta Air is up and running now for over a year and we have become a member of the community here in Malta. Our partnership with this local charity is part of that.
Throughout the networks of Malta Air and the Ryanair group, our customers donate to charity through purchasing our in-flight scratch cards, and Puttinu Cares is one example of a charity that benefits from these donations. We look forward to continuing to work with Puttinu Cares in the coming years.”
Dr Andrew Decelis of Puttinu Cares said:
“Thank you for your contribution which will help us continue to support an increasing number of families and children who are passing through very difficult times. We rely heavily on donations such as these in order to live up to our mission”.
Charles Pace, Director General of TM CAD, said:
‘I am happy to have made the introduction between Malta Air and Puttinu Cares, and that the local community will benefit from the charitable donation. I thank Malta Air management for its support and look forward to the continuation of this initiative.’