Ryanair, Europe’s No 1 airline, has announced a new route from Edinburgh Airport to Copenhagen, which will begin in Summer 2016.
This will be good news for the customers they expect to use all of the Ryanair routes each year, and the airline also claims that it is good news for those 1725 people working ‘on site’ at Edinburgh Airport whose jobs they support.
In Edinburgh to meet the press yesterday, Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary was in upbeat mood as ever. He said:
“Ryanair is pleased to launch our Summer 2016 Edinburgh schedule, with a new route to Copenhagen, and more flights on 9 other routes including our Edinburgh – London route to 5 times daily.
“To celebrate the launch of our Edinburgh Summer 2016 schedule, we are releasing 100,000 seats for sale across our European network at fares starting from just £19.99, which are available for booking until midnight on Thursday 1 October.
“Since these amazing low prices will be snapped up quickly, customers should log onto www.ryanair.com and avoid missing out.”
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“Scottish consumers and visitors can choose from Ryanair’s 33 low fare Edinburgh routes in Summer 2016 and can look forward to further improvements, as Ryanair continues its “Always Getting Better” programme, which includes new bases, a new personalised website and mobile app, new cabin interiors, and new crew uniforms.
“As we move through the winter into spring 2016 we have already confirmed that we have saved 270million Euros in fuel costs by hedging fuel prices ahead of time. We will pass that 8% decrease on to our passengers next winter.
“We have ordered another 400 aircraft to cope with the growth we have particularly here in the Scottish market where we now have three bases and we expect to carry 104million passengers this year, rising to 160million in eight years’ time.
“We welcome the plan by the Scottish Government to abolish APD by 2018, although of course we would like it to be achieved much sooner than that .”
As well as the new route to Copenhagen the airline announced increased flights to Alicante, Barcelona, Brussels, Gdansk, Krakow, London, Malaga, Malta and Palma direct from the capital.
Edinburgh Airport CEO Gordon Dewar said: “We are delighted by the news and there are some real highlights in there for us, particularly the Polish routes and that to Malta. Ryanair is now our second biggest airline customer at Edinburgh Airport, a testament to their success.
Edinburgh is a fantastic market for airlines and the airport is delivering great service, great punctuality and good service as well.”
Over 10 million passengers used Edinburgh Airport last year which was a growth of 4% on the previous year, and which involves 298 flights each day. The airport is still part of the way a £125million five year investment programme to introduce a new security hall, new retail both landside and airside, and improved check-in and immigration areas.
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