Ryanair, Europe’s No. 1 airline, today (21 Sept) launched its Cardiff summer 2017 schedule, with a new route to Faro (2 routes in total), which will deliver 43,000 customers p.a. at Cardiff Airport.

Ryanair’s summer schedule will see 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 route Faro (2 weekly)

· 2 routes in total including Tenerife (1 weekly)

· 43,000 customers p.a.

Ryanair’s Head of Communications, Robin Kiely said:

“We are pleased to launch our Cardiff summer 2017 schedule, which includes a new route to Faro, in addition to our weekly service to Tenerife, which will deliver 43,000 customers p.a. at Cardiff 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 Cardiff.

Seats on our new route to Faro are on sale now from just £24.99, which are available for booking until Monday (26 Sep). Since these amazing low prices will be snapped up quickly, customers should log onto www.ryanair.com and avoid missing out.”

Cardiff Airport’s Chairman, Roger Lewis Said:

“It is fantastic to see Ryanair increase its routes and flights at Cardiff Airport. Our customers now have even more choice to travel to what is an extremely popular destination.

Ryanair is responding to the demands of Welsh passengers by adding another essential route to its network. It is vital that our customers are offered a wide variety of choice when it comes holiday destinations. We look forward to another successful summer season next year and continued success for Ryanair at Cardiff Airport.”