Ryanair announces new flights out of Manchester

Ryanair has announced five new routes for 2017.

Services to Berlin, Hamburg, Nuremberg, Oslo Torp and Wroclaw will take the total routes out of Manchester to forty four.

Ryanair will also be adding additional flights to Alicante, Chania, Faro, Krakow, Lanzarote, Murcia, Palma, Rome, Tenerife and Zadar.

The flights are expected to handle 4.5 million customers a year and support 3,400 jobs at Manchester Airport with Ryanair set to grow its Manchester traffic by 13% in 2017.

Ryanair’s chief marketing officer Kenny Jacobs said: “Customers can look forward to even lower fares when they make advance bookings for summer 2017.

“As our recent guidance confirmed, Ryanair expects average fares to fall by between 10% to 12% in the 6 months to March 2017.

“There’s never been a better time to book a low fare flight on Ryanair and we urge all customers who wish to book their summer 2017 holidays to do so now on the Ryanair.com website, where they can avail of the lowest fare air travel to and from Manchester.

Ken O’Toole, chief executive of Manchester Airport said: “It is pleasing to see Ryanair expanding its summer schedule from Manchester Airport.

“These routes are proving popular with both business and leisure passengers within our catchment area, which stretches from the east to the west coasts of the UK and as far North as the Scottish borders.

“Coupled with increased frequencies on routes to a range of sunshine destinations, this commitment is yet another vote of confidence in Manchester and the wider North.”