New Bari base for Ryanair

Today Ryanair staff travelled to Italy to officially open its new base in Bari – where it plans to roll-out nine new routes until February.

The LCC has based one 737-800 at the airport, followed by another next month, then it rolls out its remaining new routes.

New routes in January are as follows:

Bari to Brussels (Charleroi) (four-times weekly)
Genoa (three-times weekly)

Karlsruhe – Baden Baden (twice-weekly)
Paris (Beauvais), (four-times weekly)
Treviso (six-times weekly)

From February:

• Cagliari (twice-weekly)
• Dusseldorf (Weeze), (three-times weekly)
• Trapani (four-times weekly)
• Valencia (three-times weekly)

Ryanair expects traffic at Bari to increase to 1.2 million annual passengers.

From 4^th February, Ryanair will add another base in nearby Brindisi, with new routes to Barcelona (Girona), Eindhoven, Trapani and Treviso.