Ryanair has announced it will open eight new routes from Shannon, starting in April 2014.
Tickets go on sale today for the flights – to Berlin, Faro, Fuerteventura, Krakow, Munich, Nice, Paris and Warsaw.
The new routes will deliver an additional 300,000 passengers a year – the first of an extra 1m passengers a year that Ryanair says it can achieve as a result of the Irish Government’s decision to scrap the €3 per person air travel tax from April 2014.
In addition, an extra frequency has been added on the Stansted route, to 15 a week.
Ryanair is in continuing discussions with the four other main Irish airports – Cork, Dublin, Kerry and Knock – to finalise its growth plans for summer 2014 and hopes to announce more route and frequency growth from Ireland in the coming weeks.
