Ryanair, Europe’s No. 1 airline, today (15 Sept) launched its Barcelona summer 2017 schedule, with a new summer route to Sofia, and extra flights to Porto, which will deliver 6.9m customers p.a. and support 5,200* jobs at Barcelona El Prat Airport.

Ryanair’s Barcelona summer schedule will see high frequency services to sun destinations for summer family holidays, lower fares as Ryanair passes on lower fuel costs, and an even better customer experience, as it rolls out year 3 of its “Always Getting Better” customer experience programme, and will deliver:

· 1 new summer route to: Sofia (3 wkly)

· More frequency to Porto (17 wkly)

· 42 routes in total incl: Dublin (3 dly), London (4 dly) & Rome (5 dly)

· 6.9m customers p.a. (+125,000)

· 5,200* “on-site” jobs p.a.

Ryanair will continue to connect Barcelona with major leisure and business centres on high frequency, low fare services including Dublin (3 daily), London (4 daily) and Rome (5 daily) with better timings and lower fares, making Ryanair the ideal choice for Barcelona business and leisure customers.

In Barcelona, Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary said:

“We are pleased to launch our Barcelona summer 2017 schedule, which includes a new summer route to Sofia, and more frequency to Porto, which will deliver 6.9m million customers p.a. and support 5,200* jobs at Barcelona El Prat Airport.

Customers can look forward to even lower fares when they make advance bookings for summer 2017. As our recent guidance confirmed, Ryanair expects average fares to fall by between 10% to 12% in the 6 months to March 2017. There’s never been a better time to book a low fare flight on Ryanair and we urge all customers who wish to book their summer 2017 holidays to do so now on the Ryanair.com website, where they can avail of the lowest fare air travel to and from Barcelona.

To celebrate the launch of our Barcelona summer 2017 schedule we are releasing 100,000 seats for sale across our European network from just €19.99, which are available for booking until Monday (19 Sep). Since these amazing low prices will be snapped up quickly, customers should log onto www.ryanair.com and avoid missing out.”