Ryanair aims to carry 17 million passengers from Milan: routes and planes increase
Ryanair today launched its winter 23/24 operations to Milan (Bergamo and Malpensa) where 2 new [...]
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Ryanair today launched its winter 23/24 operations to Milan (Bergamo and Malpensa) where 2 new aircraft will be based, allowing Open 10 new international routes for Belfast, Brussels, Cluj, Iasi, Kaunas, Lanzarote, Lublin, Rovaniemi, Tenerife, and Tirana, and to a Increase frequencies on 30 more routes.
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Ryanair will base 1 new B737 aircraft at each of Bergamo and Malpensa airports for winter 23/24 ($200 million investment) bringing to 30 aircraft the company's total fleet on Milan, creating more than 60 new well-paid jobs for pilots, cabin crew and engineers.
The new routes
A total of 120 destinations, including domestic and international, will be reachable from the two airports of Malpensa and Bergamo:
- 10 new ones to Belfast, Brussels, Cluj, Iasi, Kaunas, Lanzarote, Lublin, Rovaniemi, Tenerife, and Tirana
- Increased frequencies on 30 international routes, including Alicante, Barcelona, Malaga, Marrakech, Valencia and Vienna
Target 17mln passengers and war on price-blocking decree
With this firepower Ryanair aims to carry more than 17 million passengers a year to/from the two Milan airports where it operates. Speaking in Milan, Ryanair's Michael O'Leary said:
As we increase international routes to/from Milan this winter, Italy's domestic growth is jeopardized by the government's illegal decree restricting airlines' freedom to set low airfares. European law guarantees airlines the freedom to set prices lower or higher, and no Italian decree can restrict this legislation.
This illegal decree will hurt Italy's domestic traffic because it will encourage airlines, such as Ryanair, to reduce flights/capacity on domestic routes (which are subject to the decree) and transfer flights/capacity to international routes to/from Milan and Rome where it is still possible to set prices freely. This decree will only bring fewer flights and higher fares to Sardinia and Sicily.
Italy, its Islands and its Regions have been among the biggest beneficiaries of Ryanair's growth and low fares, and unfortunately this stupid and illegal decree, based on ENAC's false and inaccurate advice, will have the opposite effect by reducing capacity and increasing fares for Sardinia and Sicily, until it is annulled by the European Courts."
