New Ryanair route from Ireland to Wroclaw

Low-cost Irish airline, Ryanair, recently announced that it was closing two flights from Shannon, to Hamburg and Stockholm, to make way for four new routes to Manchester, Rome, Murcia and Wroclaw.

The four flights will commence on February 22nd 2006 and run three times a week, bringing the total number of routes from Shannon to 19. The service to Wroclaw will be the airline’s first route between Ireland and Poland.

The company's Chief Executive, Michael O’Leary, said that since the launch of the airline’s Shannon base in May this year, traffic at the airport had trebled.

“Ryanair has delivered dramatic growth at Shannon airport as promised. This is good news for business and tourism in the mid-west,” he said.

“Today’s four new routes to England, Poland, Italy and Spain mean that over the next year 1.5 million passengers will use Ryanair’s Shannon flights, almost one million of whom will be inbound visitors, sustaining 1,500 jobs in the mid-west.”

The routes to Stockholm and Hamburg were closed due to a lack of demand, despite Ryanair's claims that they weren't losing money.