Ryanair has announced that it is to open its 38th base at Málaga airport in June 2010 with four aircraft and nineteen new routes being launched.
Ryanair will create more than 200 direct jobs and offer 360 weekly flights to and from Málaga with an investment of over €170 million in the airport.
Ryanair’s 19 new routes from Malaga are to: Aarhus, Berlin (Schonefeld), Bratislava, Eindhoven, Gothenburg, Krakow, Maastricht, Memmingen (Munich West), Oslo (Torp), Paris (Beauvais), Pisa, Santander, Santiago, Stockholm (Skavsta), Tampere, Valladolid, Venice (Treviso), Wroclaw and Zaragoza.
This will increase Ryanair’s traffic at Malaga to more than two million passengers per year.
Ryanair celebrated its new Malaga base by releasing 500,000 €5 January seats for travel on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays on 500 routes across its European network in the new year.