Ryanair names Madrid as new base for 14 new routes
11 October 2006Ryanair named Madrid as its eighteenth European base on Tuesday, and said it would start flying from the Spanish capital from mid-November.Ryanair, which launched a 1.48 billion euro (1 billion pounds) bid for Ireland’s Aer Lingus last week, said it expected to fly 1 million passengers a year on the new routes.
The Irish low-cost carrier said in a statement it would fly from Madrid to 14 destinations including Dublin, Paris, Brussels, Oslo, East Midlands and Bournemouth in the UK and Gothenburg and Malmo in Sweden.
source: Scotsman.com
