Dusseldorf Weeze new Ryanair base?

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Cesare
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Dusseldorf Weeze new Ryanair base?

Post by Cesare »

From today Ryanair presse release:
"We expect to announce a 19th base – which will be in Continental Europe – before the end of February"

Later was announced a presse conference for tomorrow afternoon at Weeze Airport with important expansion route news. MOL will be present.

May be will be annunced Weeze as new Ryanair base?
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Post by Cesare »

The first new route to be annunced will be Dusseldorf Weeze-Alghero!

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Post by Charlie Roy »

http://www.fliegertarife.de/index.php?o ... Itemid=132

Ryanair are moving quickly to announce a Weeze base after a favourable court decision in Germany last week. While Weeze was always on the cards for a base, it was not hotly rumoured of late, so this is really out of the blue. Just shows how fast Ryanair can react....

PS:
Weeze to Bremen: 240km
Weeze to Charleroi: 175km
The Ryanair routemap would have you thinking otherwise...

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Post by Acid-drop »

Weeze is also very close from eindhoven ...

They all have almost the same destinations.
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Post by regi »

Well Acid Drop, you say it very politely. I know that I repeat many complaints, when I say that it is a 82 km drive from Weeze to Düsseldorf.
See Frankfurt-Hahn, Bruges airport at Ostend, Brussels South, Venice-by-Ryanair and so on.

A major reason to keep Cold War Era airfields active as civilian airports is not to facilitate cheap flying. But it is a mix of strategy ( keep the military capacity there), employment, environment (? well, all airports are very heavely poluted. It would cost a lot of money to clean the soil )

Anyway, I feel sorry for the UK businessman who lands at Weeze and thinks he will be on the Düsseldorf Trade Fair in 5 minutes. It will cost him a 2 hour drive in morning traffic and at least 100 euro one way.

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