Ryanair, Europe’s favourite airline, today (15 Jan) announced further expansion to its Stansted Summer 2016 schedule with a new route to Palanga in Lithuania (in addition to Milan Malpensa, Sofia & Verona), bringing to 130 summer 2016 routes, which will deliver 20m customers p.a. and support 15,000* “on-site” jobs at Stansted Airport.

Ryanair’s Stansted summer 2016 schedule will deliver:

· 4 new routes to Milan Malpensa (2 x daily), Palanga (2 x weekly), Sofia (1 x daily), Verona (5 x weekly)
· Extra flights on 18 routes (incl Berlin x daily, Cologne 3 x daily, Edinburgh 5 x daily, Glasgow 4 x daily)
· 130 total routes
· 1,120 weekly flights
· 20m customers p.a.
· 15,000* “on-site” jobs p.a.

UK consumers and visitors can choose from 130 low fare Ryanair Stansted routes next summer and can look forward to further improvements, as Ryanair continues its “Always Getting Better” programme, which includes more new routes, new app, new cabin interiors, new crew uniforms and improved inflight menus.

Ryanair’s Sales and Marketing Executive, Lisa Buckley said:

“Ryanair is pleased to announce further expansion to our Stansted summer 2016 schedule with a new route to Palanga in Lithuania , alongside new routes to Milan Malpensa, Sofia and Verona, which will deliver 20m customers p.a. and support 15,000* “on-site” jobs at Stansted Airport.

Seats on our new route to Palanga are on sale now at fares starting from just £19.99 for travel in April and May, which are available for booking until midnight Monday (18 Jan). Since these amazing low prices will be snapped up quickly, customers should log onto www.ryanair.com and avoid missing out.”