Ryanair announces new routes in Portugal next Summer – the Public.en

There are five new destinations with departure from Lisbon, and eight new routes from Faro. Here is the new calendar of the low-cost airline for the Summer of 2017.

The summer months of next year will bring five new destinations of Ryanair with departure from Lisbon airport: Bologna (three flights per week), Glasgow (two weekly frequencies), Luxembourg (four flights), Toulouse (flights daily) and Wroclaw (twice a week). The portfolio of low-cost airline will thus count with 23 routes from the Portuguese capital.

With the increase in the number of connections, Ryanair expects to carry three million passengers per year, accounted for all the departures and arrivals to Lisbon, which represents an increase of passengers in the order of 13% (350 thousand) up to 2017.

One of the objectives of the irish company is precisely to overcome to TAP the short-term" in the number of passengers carried, in order to become a leader in the Portuguese market. Currently Ryanair is in second place, behind the Portuguese company, which carries 9.5 million passengers per year to and from Portugal.

according To the chief executive officer of the company – which was this Wednesday in Lisbon to display the calendar of the company for the Summer of 2017 -Ryanair has come to shorten the distance to the TAP in the last few years” and expects to double the number of passengers over the next five to ten years, to 18 million.

As the capital of the algarve, the company budget has announced eight new routes: Aberdeen, Cardif, Marseille, Newquay and Warsaw (with two flights per week each), Hamburg (three weekly frequencies) and London (Luton airport, with five flights per week). In addition to the new destinations, there is still an increase in the number of frequencies to various cities, including Birmingham and Brussels.

During the press conference in Lisbon, Michael O’leary also said that "I wouldn’t be surprised" if Ryanair started flying to Funchal (Madeira) "within one to two years."

The ad book flights with departure from the Port was scheduled for a press conference this afternoon in the city Invicta, but an unforeseen postponed to date yet to announce.

To celebrate the launch of the calendar for the Summer of next year, the airline launched a promotional campaign. There are "one hundred thousand flights since 14,99€ in the entire european network" for booking "up to 24 Monday, September 26".