The FINANCIAL -- Ryanair, the world’s one of the favourite airlines, on September 1 (1st Sept) officially opened its newest base at Barcelona El Prat with 8 based aircraft, 23 low fare routes and 2.5m passenger p.a. which will help reverse declining traffic at El Prat Airport which fell by 3m passengers in 2009. 

Ryanair’s El Prat routes will sustain over 2,500 local jobs as well as 400 direct Ryanair jobs among pilots, cabin crew and engineers.

"Ryanair will operate over 400 weekly low fare flights to/from Barcelona El Prat in an investment of over $550 million in the Airport .  Ryanair’s 23 new El Pratt routes are the first low fares routes to/from Barcelona El Prat and will allow the Airport to tap into the low fares market, which continues to grow, and which has so far been absent from the Airport ," Ryanair reports.

Ryanair opened its Barcelona El Prat base by releasing 500,000 €6 seats for travel on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays on over 500 routes across its European network in October.

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