Ryanair announces Polish expansion plans!

[White Cap]

Source: RTE (IRELAND) http://www.rte.ie/business/2005/0803/ryanair.html

Ryanair announces Polish expansion plans

August 03, 2005 15:19

Ryanair today announced plans to expand in Poland, just one year after its CEO Michael O'Leary said the country was somewhere that no-one wanted to fly to.

Speaking at a news conference in the Polish port city of Gdansk today, Mr O'Leary said he had come there to eat a lot of 'humble pie'. Gdansk is one of eight Polish airports that Ryanair will be serving by November.

O'Leary said the airline hopes to carry five million passengers a year to and from Poland within five years - up from a million a year in the first 12 months - and expects to have at least one base in the country within three years.

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White Cap

[henkjan99]

NRN - Gdansk?

[dD]

NRN - Gdansk?

ach Henk ...
We are still not a FR Base and also in Poland there will be one later - "within three years" - like MOL said.

[henkjan99]

Ich war nur positiv...

[White Cap]

Source: - AFX News Limited

Ryanair planning more routes to Poland
08.04.2005, 10:09 AM

WARSAW (AFX) - Ryanair Holdings PLC, the Irish low-cost airline, is planning to increase further its presence in Poland, Puls Biznesu reported.

According to unofficial sources, the company is considering opening several new routes, including flights to Katowice, Deblin, Lublin-Niedzwiada, Szczytno and Bialystok.

'We will announce 2-3 routes this year, then we will increase the number of flights on the best routes to 2-3 per day, and then we will start operations to new airports', the Ryanair managing director Michael O'Leary said.

'Twelve months ago I believed it made no sense flying to Poland. I've changed my mind. In 2006, we will have 1 million passengers on our routes to Poland, and 5 million within next five years,' O'Leary said.

In the autumn, Ryanair will start flights to Bydgoszcz, Gdansk, Krakow, Lodz, Poznan, Rzeszow and Szczecin.

It is possible that the Irish low-cost carrier will also build a base in Poland, Puls Biznesu said.

'This investment is possible in 2007. Three airports are taken into consideration, including Wroclaw. If growth rate remains high, we will consider launching a second base in Poland,' O'Leary said.

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White Cap

[Diego A. Maradona]

Egal welcher Flughafen in Polen Ryanair-Drehkreuz wird, NRN müsste nach London u.a. englischen Städten Ziel Nr. 1 sein!

[Goldman]

Also ich denke mal :
"Wird in Polen ein neuer Standort eröffnet, dann gibt es mit Sicherheit Flüge nach NRN (oder EIN). Interessant wären Flüge nach Krakau / Kattowitz, denn von dort kommen hier viele Ansässige (und man kann dort gut Skifahren). Mich persönlich würde aber auch Gdansk interessieren (Strandurlaub). Mir stellt sich nur die Frage ob Ryanair die Konkurenz dann zu EasyJet und WIZZ in DTM sucht, denn von dort geht doch schon einiges in Richtung Polen, da wäre EIN evtl. doch interessanter. Oder man fliegt nur 3x/ von hier in die Richtung."

[dD]

Breslau / Wroclaw wäre ja auch ein Interessantes Ziel ab hier.
Von da gibt es ebenfalls viele Gastarbeiter oder mittlerweile Ansässige.