An airport near Oslo has been chosen as Ryanair’s 37th base and its first in Norway.
The no frills carrier is to open 16 new routes from Oslo Rygge airport from March 2010, bringing the total up to 22.
Ryanair will offer 100 weekly return flights to/from in an investment of more than $200 million in the airport as it bases three aircraft at the Norwegian airport.
The new routes include Dublin, Aarhus, Berlin (Schonefeld), Dusseldorf (Weeze), Eindhoven, Gdansk, Krakow, La Rochelle, Malaga, Memmingen (Munich West), Palma, Paris (Beauvais), Riga, Wroclaw, Valencia and Venice (Treviso).
The airline expects to increase traffic at Oslo Rygge to 1.7 million passengers a year.
by Phil Davies
