Ryanair returns to Manchester
Ryanair has launched four new routes from Manchester to Alicante, Faro, Madrid and Tenerife today, a little more than a year after axing nine routes from the UK's fourth biggest airport.
The airline dropped all but its flights to Dublin from Manchester in October 2009 after the airport refused to reduce its landing fees. It pulled flights to continental Europe and to Shannon in the west of Ireland.
Today's u-turn will safeguard 600 jobs in the Manchester area, according to Ryanair, which expects to carry 600,000 passengers from the airport this year.
It has also increased frequencies on its Manchester to Dublin service from four daily flights to six flights daily and it is launching a new twice weekly flight from Humberside to Alicante, starting on April 12.
All the new flights go on sale tomorrow (Thursday, January 27).
With permission from Travelmole