Irish low cost Ryanair hopes to fly more than 200,000 passengers on new Romanian routes

Low cost airline Ryanair, which recently announced its new route connecting Bucharest to Dublin starting April 2014, hopes to attract 210,000 passengers from Romania with its new Romanian routes. The low cost airline expects 160,000 passengers a year from its two routes operated from Bucharest, and 210,000 passengers on all Romanian routes, including Targu Mures and Constanta flights, according to Maria Macken, sales and marketing manager Ryanair. Ryanair will operate six routes from Romania, from the Bucharest, Constanta and Targu Mures airports. From Targu Mures the company flies to Brussels and Pisa, with four flights a week. Ryanair has recently announced nine new routes – including one to Bucharest – from Dublin airport as part of an expansion that will create 300 direct jobs. The airline said the expansion will deliver an additional 700,000 passengers a year in Dublin, which will deliver 700 indirect jobs at that airport. Set up in 1985, Ryanair now operates more than 1,600 daily flights (over 500,000 per year) from 57 bases, across 1,600 low fare routes, connecting 180 destinations in 29 countries and operating a fleet of 303 new Boeing 737-800 aircraft. Ryanair currently has more than 9,000 employees and expects to carry over 81.5 million passengers this year. editor@romania-insider.com