ATW Daily News
Ryanair to open Leeds Bradford base
Wednesday August 12, 2009Ryanair will open its 34th base at Leeds Bradford in March when it will launch 14 new routes with two based 737s. New destinations will be Carcassonne, Faro, Ibiza, Knock, Krakow, Limoges, Malaga, Malta, Montpellier, Murcia, Nantes, Palma, Pisa and Treviso. It currently serves Dublin, Girona and Alicante from the airport and plans to operate 63 weekly flights to/from LBA next spring. It also announced the launch of four-times-weekly Bristol-Malaga service in October, its fourth "winter sun run" from the airport announced in the past week.
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