Ryanair Adds Route to Corfu

Irish budget carrier Ryanair is to introduce its first link to Corfu this summer. The airline will launch a twice weekly service from London Stansted on July 7, serving Ioannis Kapodistrias International Airport on the Mediterranean island. Ryanair already offers flights from London Stansted to Rhodes and Thessaloniki and from Liverpool John Lennon to Kos and is boosting its activities in the Greek market.

Around 1.7 million O&D passengers travelled between the UK and Greece on scheduled flights in the past year, a market that Ryanair’s low-cost rival easyJet dominates with a 44 per cent share of the traffic.

As of this month, Ryanair offers flights to eight destinations from Kos, 13 from Rhodes, five from Thessaloniki and four from Volos, with a total of 66 weekly departures. This figure will rise considerably during the summer months as additional flights are added during the peak season.

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NOTE: Schedule data extracted from Flightbase for week commencing April 14, 2011; Traffic data extracted from IATA BSP system for the year ending January 2011.