The company's new routes are from Bristol to Faro, Gdansk, Palma de Mallorca, Venice (Treviso) and Valencia; from Edinburgh to Tampere; from Glasgow (Prestwick) to Carcassonne; and from Liverpool to Lodz, Rimini and Trapanican. Flights can be booked from Friday 20 November at http://www.ryanair.com and there are increasing frequencies on two Bristol and four Liverpool routes.

Ryanair said, with the addition of the new aircraft and routes, it has extended its 500,000 GBP1.00 Christmas seat sale to midnight Friday for travel in late December.

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Today's announcement bears out Ryanair's forecast that there will be just four large EU airlines - BA, Air France, Lufthansa and Ryanair, and of these four only Ryanair is committed to low fares and no fuel surcharges. The combined BA / Iberia will carry approximately 60m pax pa with traffic declining by 4% /10% currently while Ryanair will still be bigger carrying over 66m pax this year as we grow by 15% p.a.

Ryanair's Stephen McNamara said:

"Flag carrier airlines throughout Europe are raising the white flag because they can't compete with Ryanair's rapid growth, low fares and no fuel surcharge guarantee. Consolidation is the only option for these high fares airlines as more and more passengers switch to Ryanair's low fares. The merger of BA and Iberia is like two drunks trying to prop each other up; both have reported large losses, both are facing a winter of industrial action and both charge high fares and fuel surcharges as their passengers switch to Ryanair's low fare services in the UK and Spain.

"Since consolidation of Europe's high fares airlines has never led to lower fares, this merger will be great for Ryanair's growth and we look forward to welcoming many more millions of BA's and Iberia's passengers as they switch to Ryanair's low fares flights".

CONTACT: Stephen McNamara, Ryanair Tel: +353 1 812 1271 Pauline McAlester, Murray Consultants Tel: +353 1 4980 300

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