Ryanair announces 16 New Routes

Ryanair Holdings PLC announced 16 new routes Tuesday and declared the airport it uses near Duesseldorf, northwest Germany, to be its 19th base.

Ryanair Chief Executive Michael O'Leary said the no-frills airline would launch four new routes from Duesseldorf in June, linking northwest Germany with Alghero, Sardinia; Alicante and Palma, Spain; and Venice, Italy.

The airline said it was opening a dozen other new routes from March to June that would bring four new destinations into the Ryanair network: Palma Alicante in Spain, Maastricht in the Netherlands, and Zadar, Croatia.

Ryanair also announced it was shutting down two underperforming routes: London Stansted-Deauville, France, and Girona, Spain-Marrakech, Morocco.

Source: forbes.com