The announcement had already been made last February 16 and was confirmed Thursday in a press conference in the House of Porto, attended by Niall O’Connor, director of Ryanair routes, and the mayor Porto Rui Moreira.
the new route between Porto and Malpensa Airport in Milan (Italy) starts in September and is included in the winter schedule that Irish airline, including new connections to Warsaw, Dublin, Liverpool and Valencia, as well as additional flights to Madrid, Barcelona and Brussels.
tickets will be on sale from tomorrow, Friday, and cost 26.99 euros, about 10% of the committed amount TAP (the average price of Port-Malpensa ticket is 275 euros), which has already announced the decision to suspend that call, from March 27. A decision also covers flights between Porto and Brussels, Barcelona and Rome.
According announced Thursday, the director of routes Ryanair, this low-cost company will create four weekly flights between the Francisco Sa Carneiro Airport and Malpensa, besides the connection that already performs between Porto and Bergamo also in the Milan area. a measure that will allow connecting Porto Milan 11 times a week and that comes in the wake of a challenge by the mayor of Porto.
“we have always believed that there was a market. Ryanair already covered Milan. But Malpensa was absolutely essential,” said Rui Moreira, recalling the importance of the region to the northern textile industry and migrants in Switzerland. “We launched the challenge to Ryanair and asked to do the math and look at this opportunity,” added the mayor. The airline ensures that did the math and, contrary to claims TAP in its decision to abandon that route in Porto, considered it a lucrative opportunity.
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