MARCH 22ND, 2017

Ryanair Launches East Midlands Winter 2017 Schedule

Ryanair, Europe’s No. 1 airline, today (22 Mar) launched its East Midlands winter 2017 schedule, with a new route to Seville and a new winter service to Budapest, with 23 routes in total which will deliver 2.4m customers p.a. and support 1,800 jobs at the East Midlands Airport.

Ryanair’s East Midland’s winter 2017 schedule will deliver:
1 new route to Seville (2 x weekly)
1 new winter service to Budapest (2 x weekly)
23 winter routes in total
80 weekly flights
2.4m customers p.a.
1,800 “on-site” jobs p.a.

Ryanair will continue to connect the East Midlands with major business and leisure centres on high frequency, low fare services including Alicante (daily) and Dublin (2 x daily), all on the lowest fares, making Ryanair the ideal choice for UK business and leisure customers.

Ryanair’s East Midland’s summer 2017 schedule is attracting record bookings, with more frequencies to sun destinations for summer family holidays, including 4 new routes to Budapest (3 weekly), Girona (2 weekly), Naples (3 weekly) and Reus (2 weekly), on 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 Robin Kiely said:

“We are pleased to launch our 2017 East Midlands winter schedule, with a new route to Seville, a new winter service to Budapest and 23 routes in total, which will deliver 2.4m customers p.a. and support 1,800 jobs at East Midlands Airport. These new routes are now on sale on the Ryanair.com website as we continue to grow our East Midlands traffic, tourism and jobs.

We are also pleased to report record bookings on our East Midlands summer 2017 schedule and UK 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 East Midlands.

To celebrate the launch of our East Midlands winter 2017, we are releasing seats from East Midlands to Seville from £24.99 for travel in November which are available for booking until midnight Thursday (23 Mar). Since these amazing low prices will be snapped up quickly, customers should log onto www.ryanair.com and avoid missing out.”