Ryanair, Europe’s No. 1 airline, today (18 Oct) launched its biggest ever East Midlands summer schedule (2017), with 3 new routes to Budapest, Girona and Reus, which will deliver 2.5m customers p.a. and support 1,900* jobs at East Midlands Airport, as Ryanair grows its East Midlands traffic by 4% in 2017.

Ryanair’s East Midlands Summer 2017 schedule will see more frequencies to sun destinations, 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:

· 3 new routes to Budapest (3 weekly), Girona (2 weekly) & Reus (2 weekly)

· Extra flights to Menorca (3 weekly) & Malta (3 weekly)

· 37 routes in total

· 2.5m customers p.a. (+100,000)

· 1,900* “on-site” jobs p.a.

Ryanair will continue to connect East Midlands with popular sun destinations on low fare services including Alicante (3 daily), Malaga (2 daily) and Palma (2 daily), with better timings and lower fares, making Ryanair the ideal choice for UK customers.

In East Midlands, Ryanair’s Head of Communications, Robin Kiely said:

“We are pleased to launch our 2017 East Midlands summer schedule (our biggest ever), which includes 3 new routes to Budapest, Girona and Reus, and 37 routes in total, which will deliver 2.5 million customers p.a. and support 1,900* jobs at East Midlands Airport.

Customers can look forward to even lower fares when they make advance bookings for summer 2017, so 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 East Midlands.

To celebrate the launch of our East Midlands summer 2017 schedule we are releasing seats for sale from just £9.99, which are available for booking until Thursday (20 Oct). Since these amazing low prices will be snapped up quickly, customers should log onto www.ryanair.com and avoid missing out.”