SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
Report of Foreign Private Issuer
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For the month of January, 2003
RYANAIR HOLDINGS PLC
(Translation of registrant's name into English)
c/o Ryanair Ltd Corporate Head Office
Dublin Airport
County Dublin Ireland
(Address of principal executive offices)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual
reports under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.
Form 20-F..X.. Form 40-F.....
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information
contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the
Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934.
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in connection with Rule 12g3-2(b): 82- ________
RYANAIR ANNOUNCES FIVE NEW ROUTES FROM LONDON
TO GERMANY, FRANCE, NORWAY AND HOLLAND
PLUS INCREASED FLIGHTS TO 11 DESTINATIONS FROM LONDON
That's 20 million passengers on 100 routes across 15 European countries
Ryanair, Europe's No.1 low fares airline, today (Wednesday, 29th January 2003)
announced five new routes from London Stansted Airport to Reims and Pau in
France, Haugesund in Norway, Maastricht in the Netherlands and Dusseldorf
(Niederrhein) in Germany, and announced details of increased flights to 11
destinations across Europe, with fares on these new routes starting from only
GBP49.99!
REIMS FRANCE - GBP 59.99
PAU FRANCE - GBP 59.99
MAASTRICHT HOLLAND - GBP 49.99
HAUGESUND NORWAY - GBP 59.99
DUSSELDORF GERMANY - GBP 49.99
(NIEDERRHEIN)
The new routes, which will commence on 30th April 2003, will add even greater
choice to consumers at the lowest fares, with Ryanair now serving 49
destinations across Europe from London. Ryanair now have a network of 100 routes
across 15 European countries.
Announcing details of the five new routes in London today, Ryanair's Chief
Executive, Michael O'Leary said:
"Ryanair will carry more than 20 million passengers across the UK and
Europe over the coming year alone. Since we started flying from London
Stansted back in 1989, we have already carried more than 30 million
passengers through Stansted Airport.
"Today, we are bringing even more choice to UK consumers with the
announcement of 5 new routes to destinations in Germany, France,
Netherlands and Norway. This brings Ryanair up to 100 destinations
across 15 countries.
"These 5 new routes will commence on 30th April 2003 and with 75 flights
per week to Dusseldorf (Niederrhein), Reims, Pau, Haugesund and
Masstricht, and fares starting from GBP49.99 including taxes, UK
consumers will continue to benefit from Ryanair's low fares to even
more top European destinations".
In addition, we are announcing increased frequency on 11 of our existing
services from London Stansted to:
BOLOGNA KERRY HAMBURG TURIN VENICE
STOCKHOLM MILAN ROME FRANKFURT
BARCELONA STRASBOURG.
NEW ROUTES
ROUTE RYANAIR FARE COMPETITOR FARE (ONE-WAY) SAVINGS
(ONE-WAY)
LONDON- PAU GBP 59.99 Air France GBP398.90 85%
PAU - LONDON EUR 69.99 Air FranceEUR517.90 86%
LONDON-HAUGESUND GBP 59.99 SAS - GBP380.10 84%
HAUGESUND-LONDON NOK790 SAS -NOK 6865 88%
LONDON- REIMS GBP59.99 Air France GBP379.90 84%
(Metz)
REIMS-LONDON EUR69.99 Air FranceEUR487.90 (Metz) 85%
LONDON-DUSSELDORF GBP49.99 BA - GBP266.00 81%
DUSSELDORF-LONDON EUR59.99 BA -EUR362.23 83%
LONDON -MAASTRICHT GBP49.99 KLM Exel GBP197.40 75%
MAASTRICHT - EUR59.99 KLM ExelEUR264.88 77%
LONDON
INCREASED SERVICES FROM LONDON STANSTED PER DAY
ROUTES NEW DAILY FLIGHT FREQUENCY NUMBER OF EXTRA FLIGHTS PER DAY
MILAN 6 +4
BARCELONA 3 +3
ROME 5 +2
FRANKFURT 6 +2
STRASBOURG 2 +2
BOLOGNA 2 +1
KERRY 2 +1
HAMBURG 3 +1
TURIN 2 +1
VENICE 4 +1
STOCKHOLM 5 +1
For further information: Paul Fitzsimmons Pauline McAlester
Ryanair Murray Consultants
Tel: 00 353 1 8121212 Tel: 00 353 1 4980300
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, hereunto duly authorized.
RYANAIR HOLDINGS PLC
Date: 29 January 2003
By:___/s/ Howard Millar____
H Millar
Company Secretary & Finance Director