Ryanair is looking for a second airport in Finland

[White Cap]

Source: Reuters

January 24, 2006

European no-frills airline Ryanair is looking for a second airport to fly from in Finland, a Ryanair executive was quoted as saying in an interview published on Tuesday.

"We have been very pleased with Finland," Karl Hogstadius, deputy director of the airline's Nordic and Baltic operations, told business daily Taloussanomat. "Last year we had around 350,000 passengers. This year we forecast 400,000-450,000."

Ryanair, which has been expanding aggressively in Europe, currently flies from Tampere Airport, 175 km (110 miles) north of Finland's capital Helsinki, to three destinations in Europe.

The paper gave no further details on when Ryanair hoped to start operations from another Finnish airport.

Finland is the home turf of national carrier Finnair, whose chief executive said at the weekend he doubted that no-frills carriers could operate low-priced flights from Finland to Europe for very long.

Icelandic FL Group's no-frills airline Sterling is due to start flights from Helsinki to 11 European destinations in March while Air Berlin is due to start a Helsinki-London service in February.

Lufthansa's germanwings, Swedish FlyME and Blue1, a subsidiary of Scandinavian airline SAS, also operate no-frills flights from Finland.

(Reuters)

[Triple Nickel]

I'm still wondering why Ryanair still not flies the route NRN-TMP... (TMP=Tampere)

But I'm shure they will do that as soon as TMP or NRN is a base..

The route HHN-TMP is 100% filled most of the time!! Hundreds of dutch travellers go to HHN to fly from there to TMP.

Greetz, Ron

[Goldman]

I'm still wondering why Ryanair still not flies the route NRN-TMP... (TMP=Tampere)

But I'm shure they will do that as soon as TMP or NRN is a base..

The route HHN-TMP is 100% filled most of the time!! Hundreds of dutch travellers go to HHN to fly from there to TMP.

Greetz, Ron

Da jetzt ab DUS einiges nach HEL geht wundert es mich auch, das es die Strecke NRN-TMP noch nicht gibt. Evtl. wartet man ja die weitere Entwicklung in NRN oder die Auslastung der DUS-HEL Flüge ab und schlägt dann zu (oder auch nicht)

[Diego A. Maradona]

Abwarten, abwarten...! Was ist mit der alten Ryanair-Strategie: Neue Strecken, neue Passagiere???