Ryanair opens 45th base at Manchester

Ryanair officially opened (03-Nov-2011) its 45th base at Manchester, where it is initially basing two aircraft (growing to four aircraft by summer 2012), operating 17 routes (growing to 26 in summer 2012) which will deliver up to 2 million passengers p/a and 2000 jobs as Ryanair invests over USD280 million at Manchester Airport. The carrier will operate the following routes to/from Manchester: Alicante, Barcelona Girona, Bezier, Biarritz, Bremen, Brussels, Dublin, Faro, Frankfurt, Ibiza, Katowice, Madrid, Malaga, Memmingen, Milan, Murcia, Oslo, Palma, Paris, Reus, Rome, Rzeszow, Tallinn, Tours, Tenerife and Valencia. [more - original PR]