Ryanair has announced 20 new routes as part of the launch of its first Frankfurt winter schedule.
The budget airline revealed that the new services intend to carry over 2.3 million customers yearly.
Flights will be available from Frankfurt Airport to Athens, Barcelona, Brindisi, Catania, Glasgow, Gran Canaria, Krakow, Lanzarote, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Manchester, Milan, Pisa, Porto, Seville, Tenerife, Toulouse, Valencia and Venice.
The $700m investment in the schedule – which delivered seven based aircraft – will support 1,750 “on-site” jobs at Frankfurt Airport, according to CEO Michael O’Leary.
“Our 7 based aircraft represents an investment of $700m, which further underlines our commitment to growing traffic, tourism and jobs in the Hesse region and we look forward to working closely with Fraport to deliver industry leading efficiencies and further growth at Germany’s biggest airport,” he said.
“To celebrate the launch of our Frankfurt winter 2017 schedule we are releasing seats for sale across our European network from just €9.99, which are available for booking until midnight Thursday (2 Mar).”
Ryanair’s Frankfurt Main summer 2017 schedule, with 4 routes to Alicante, Faro, Malaga and Palma, commences on 28 March.
The Independent

Pakistan International Airlines is investigating how seven extra passengers were allowed to stand in the aisles on a flight to Saudi Arabia, a spokesman told the BBC.
The passengers were allowed on the 20 January flight to Medina despite every seat being filled, the airline said.
Details of the flight have only emerged now because of extensive investigations by Dawn newspaper.
Staff had issued additional handwritten boarding passes, the paper reported.
Such an over-crowded flight would have caused problems in an emergency evacuation, aviation experts said, and passengers would not have had access to oxygen if it was suddenly required.
This is the first time the airline is known to have boarded excess passengers on a flight.
The flight in question went from Karachi to Medina carrying a total of 416 passengers, on a Boeing 777 with a total seating capacity of 409, including staff seats.
Dawn accuses Pakistan’s Civil Aviation Authority of “not taken punitive action against the airline or its staffers for putting the passengers’ lives at risk”.
The newspaper quoting airline sources accuses PIA ground traffic staff of issuing handwritten – rather than computer-generated – boarding passes to the extra passengers.
It quotes flight captain Anwer Adil as insisting that he was not told about the extra passengers until after take-off.
“I … noticed [that] some people were those who were categorically refused jump [staff] seats by me at the check-in counter before the flight”, he was quoted by Dawn as saying.
“I had already taken off and the senior purser did not inform me about extra passengers before closing the aircraft door.
“Therefore after take-off [any] immediate landing back at Karachi was not possible as it required a lot of fuel dumping which was not in the interest of the airline.”
PIA spokesman Danyal Gilani told the BBC that “the matter is under investigation and appropriate action will be taken once responsibility is fixed”.
When asked how long the inquiry will take, he said it was “not possible to put a time frame on it”.
In December, all 48 people on board a PIA plane were killed when it crashed in the north of the country.
BBC News

Russia’s United Aircraft Corp. (UAC) has signed an agreement with Ilyushin Aviation Complex to modernize the Ilyushin Il-96.
The new version, Il-96-400M, will be a development of the Il-96-300, UAC said in a statement Feb. 10. The aircraft fuselage will be extended by 9.65 m and will be equipped with PS-90A1 engines, a modernized version of the PS-90A that is used to power the Il-96-300.
The long-haul widebody will be able to carry 390 passengers. The prototype, which will be manufactured at Voronezh Aircraft Production Association (VASO), is expected to perform its first flight in 2019.
The Il-96-300 was granted a type certificate in 1992, performing its first flight in 1993. Over the past 20 years, VASO assembled 23 of the type. According to Ilyushin, Russia’s governmental squadron operates nine Il-96-300s, while Havana-based Cubana de Aviacion has five Il-96-300s.
In 2009, Russia’s Polet Airline began operating Il-96-400T cargo aircraft, but later the carrier went bankrupt and the cargo project was never developed.
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