Irish budget carrier Ryanair will open bases at Athens and Thessaloniki in April 2014, adding two more aircraft and nine new routes to its Greek operations. The airline plans to base two aircraft in Athens, which will be used to operate 154 weekly flights and serve six new routes to Chania, London, Milan, Paphos , Rhodes and Thessaloniki. The Thessaloniki base will operate 212 weekly flights including on three new routes to Athens, Pisa and Warsaw. All nine routes will begin on 1st April.
Rapidly expanding Ryanair, which already has a single Greek base at Chania , estimates the opening will add 1.2 million passengers from Athens per year and a further 1.6 million from Thessaloniki. With these latest additions Ryanair’s network will total 64 bases.
In the words of David O’Brien, the airline’s director of commercial, the airline is delighted to announce Athens and Thessaloniki as second and third bases in Greece in addition to Chania.
Rapidly expanding Ryanair, which already has a single Greek base at Chania , estimates the opening will add 1.2 million passengers from Athens per year and a further 1.6 million from Thessaloniki. With these latest additions Ryanair’s network will total 64 bases.
In the words of David O’Brien, the airline’s director of commercial, the airline is delighted to announce Athens and Thessaloniki as second and third bases in Greece in addition to Chania.
