OREANDA-NEWS.  Ryanair, Ireland’s favourite airline, today (14 Nov) announced it will open 9 new routes from Dublin (from April 2014) as well as increased frequencies on 8 existing routes, which will deliver an additional 700,000 passengers p.a. and support 700 new on-site jobs at Dublin Airport. This new capacity is the final part of the 1 million passenger growth that Ryanair promised to deliver at the main Irish airports as a direct result of the Government’s decision to scrap the €3 travel tax from April 2014.
 
Ryanair’s growth at Dublin from April 2014 will deliver:
 
9 new routes to Almeria, Bari, Basel, Bucharest, Chania, Comiso, Lisbon, Marrakesh & Prague
85 Dublin routes in total
More flights & improved schedules on the Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow (PIK), London (STN), Madrid, Manchester and Nice routes (from 300 to 400 flights p/w)
Over 700,000 new Ryanair passengers p.a. at Dublin (8.25m in total)
1,000,000 new customers which will create over 1,000* jobs at Ireland’s airports
 
Ryanair also announced that it will create over 300 new direct jobs in Ireland in 2014, for pilots, cabin crew, customer service specialists and software developers as the airline rolls out an extensive programme of customer service and website improvements. These 300 new Ryanair jobs will be in addition to the 1,000 indirect jobs that will be created at Dublin, Knock and Shannon airports to cater for the 1 million passenger growth which Ryanair will deliver from April 2014 following the scrapping of the travel tax.