Ryanair is to add nine new routes from Dublin for summer 2014 as part of a 9 per cent growth in capacity from the airport.
The Irish-based carrier is expanding operations from airports in its home market after the country’s government decided to axe its €3 air tax. Ryanair has already announced more services from Shannon from next year.
The new routes from Dublin will be to Almeria, Bari, Basel, Bucharest, Chania, Comiso, Lisbon, Marrakesh and Prague, which will begin in April 2014.
There will also be increased capacity to six UK airports: Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stansted and Manchester. The extra services will add a total of 100 extra weekly flights between Dublin and the UK.
These moves will increase Ryanair’s capacity at Dublin by around 700,000 seats per year to a total of 8.25 million.
Chief executive Michael O'Leary said: “We are also proud to confirm that we will create over 300 new direct jobs in Ryanair in Ireland in 2014 to crew our new based aircraft and to help us roll out our very exciting growth plans.”