3 NEW WINTER ROUTES TO BELFAST, NAPLES & RIGA, OVER 2.2M CUSTOMERS

Ryanair, Europe’s No 1 airline, today (1 Mar) launched its largest ever Malta winter schedule (2017), with 3 new routes to Belfast, Naples and Riga and more flights to Gdansk, Krakow, Stockholm Skavsta, Venice Treviso, Vilnius and Wroclaw, 40 routes in total, which will deliver 2.2m customers p.a. and support 1,650* jobs at Malta Airport.

Ryanair’s largest ever winter Malta 2017 schedule at Malta will deliver:

• 3 new routes: Belfast (2 wkly), Naples (2) and Riga (2)
• Extra flights to: Gdansk (2 wkly), Krakow (2), Stockholm Skavsta (2), Venice Treviso (4), Vilnius (2) & Wroclaw (2)
• 40 routes in total
• 109 weekly flights (+9%)
• 2.2m customers p.a. (+22%)
• 1,650* “on-site” jobs p.a.

Ryanair will also continue to connect Malta with major business and leisure centres on high frequency, low fare services including Brussels (daily) and Rome (daily), with better timings and lower fares, making Ryanair the ideal choice for Maltese business and leisure customers.

Ryanair’s Malta summer 2017 schedule is attracting record bookings, with more frequencies to destinations for summer family holidays, lower fares as Ryanair passes on lower fuel costs, and an even better customer experience, as it continues to roll out its “Always Getting Better” improvements.

In Malta, Ryanair’s Chief Commercial Officer David O’Brien said:

“We are pleased to launch our 2017 Maltawinter schedule, which includes 3 new routes to Belfast, Naples and Riga, extra flights to Gdansk, Krakow, Stockholm, Venice Treviso, Vilnius and Wroclaw and 40 routes in total, which will deliver 2.2m customers p.a. as we grow our Malta traffic. These new routes will go on sale on the Ryanair.com website later this week as we continue to grow our Maltese traffic, tourism and jobs, underlining our commitment to Malta.

We are also pleased to report record bookings on our Malta summer 2017 schedule and Maltese customers and visitors can look forward to even lower fares so there’s never been a better time to book a low fare flight on Ryanair. We urge all customers who wish to book their holidays to do so now on the Ryanair.com website or mobile app, where they can avail of the lowest fare air travel to and from Malta.

To celebrate the launch of our Malta winter 2017 schedule we are releasing seats for sale across our European network from just €9.99, which are available for booking until midnight Thursday (2 Mar). Since these amazing low prices will be snapped up quickly, customers should log onto www.ryanair.com and avoid missing out.”