13 NEW ROUTES INCL BUDAPEST, COLOGNE, KRAKOW & VENICE TREVISO, 68 ROUTES IN TOTAL

Ryanair, Europe’s No 1 airline, today (2 Mar) launched its Moroccan winter schedule (2017), with 13 new routes, including 7 new Marrakesh routes to Budapest, Cologne, Nimes, Krakow, Santander, Perpignan and Venice Treviso, 3 new Fez routes to Bremen, Munich Memmingen and Seville, 2 new Rabat and Tangiers routes to Eindhoven, and 68 routes in total, which will deliver 15% growth, 3.1m customers p.a. and support 2,300* jobs at Ryanair’s Moroccan airports.

Ryanair’s Morocco winter 2017 schedule will deliver:

Agadir:

• Extra flights to: Brussels Charleroi (3 wkly)
• 2 routes in total incl: London Stansted (2 wkly)
• 5 weekly flights
• 115,000 customers p.a.
• 80* “on-site” jobs p.a.

Fez:

• 3 new routes to: Bremen (2 wkly), Munich Memmingen (2 wkly), Seville (2wkly)
• 17 routes in total incl: Marseille (4 wkly) & Madrid (2 wkly)
• 38 weekly flights
• 675,000 customers p.a.
• 500* “on-site” jobs p.a.

Marrakesh:

• 7 new routes to: Budapest (2 wkly), Cologne (2 wkly), Nimes (2 wkly), Krakow (2 wkly), Santander (2 wkly), Perpignan (3 wkly) & Venice Treviso (2 wkly)
• 1 new winter service to: Valencia (2 wkly)
• Extra flights to: Paris Beauvais (6 wkly), Brussels Charleroi (4 wkly), Eindhoven (3 wkly) & Marseille (5)
• 26 routes in total
• 1.275m customers p.a.
• 950* “on-site” jobs p.a.

Nador:

• 1 new route to: Dusseldorf Weeze (2 wkly)
• 6 routes in total incl: Barcelona (2 weekly) & Paris Beauvais (2 weekly)
• 14 weekly flights
• 275,000 customers p.a.
• 200* “on-site” jobs p.a.

Oujda:

• 1 new winter service to: Paris Beauvais (2 wkly)
• 3 routes in total incl.: Brussels Charleroi (2 weekly) & Marseille (2 weekly)
• 6 weekly flights
• 130,000 customers p.a.
• 100* “on-site” jobs p.a.

Rabat:

• 1 new route to: Eindhoven (2 wkly)
• 8 routes in total incl: Madrid (4 wkly) & Paris Beauvais (4 wkly)
• 23 weekly flights
• 365,000 customers p.a.
• 270* “on-site” jobs p.a.

Tangier:

• 1 new route to: Eindhoven (2 weekly)
• 6 routes in total incl: Madrid (5 wkly) & Brussels Charleroi (3 wkly)
• 275,000 customers p.a.
• 200* “on-site” jobs p.a.

Ryanair will also continue to connect Morocco with major business and leisure centres on high frequency, low fare services, with better timings and lower fares, making Ryanair the ideal choice for Moroccan business and leisure customers.

Ryanair’s Moroccan 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.

Ryanair’s Chief People Officer Eddie Wilson said:

“We are pleased to launch our 2017 Moroccowinter schedule, our biggest ever, which includes 13 new routes, including 7 new Marrakesh routes to Budapest, Cologne, Nimes, Krakow, Santander, Perpignan and Venice Treviso, 3 new Fez routes to Bremen, Munich Memmingen and Seville, 2 new Rabat and Tangiers routes to Eindhoven and 68 routes in total, which will deliver 3.1m customers p.a. as we grow our Moroccan traffic. These new routes will go on sale on the Ryanair website tomorrow as we continue to grow our Moroccan traffic, tourism and jobs, underlining our commitment to Morocco.

We are also pleased to report record bookings on our Morocco summer 2017 schedule and Morocco 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 Morocco.

To celebrate the launch of our Moroccan winter 2017 schedule we are releasing seats for sale across our European network from just 109 Dhs, which are available for booking until midnight Monday (6 Mar). Since these amazing low prices will be snapped up quickly, customers should log onto www.ryanair.com and avoid missing out.”

ENDS

*ACI research confirms up to 750 ‘on-site’ jobs are sustained at international airports for every 1m passenger

7 New Marrakesh Routes                              

Budapest	2 x weekly
Cologne	2 x weekly
Nimes	2 x weekly
Krakow	2 x weekly
Santander	2 x weekly
Perpignan	3 x weekly
Venice Treviso	2 x weekly

3 New Fez Routes

Bremen	2 x weekly
Munich Memmingen	2 x weekly
Seville	2 x weekly

 1 New Nador Route

Weeze Dusseldorf

2 x weekly

 1 New Rabat Route

Eindhoven

2 x weekly

1 New Tangier Route

Eindhoven

2 x weekly