Christmas has come early at Ireland West Airport Knock with the announcement by Ryanair of a major expansion with three new routes to the Canary Islands.
Starting in February 2011 Ryanair will operate weekly flights from Ireland West Airport Knock to the hugely popular sun holiday destinations of Gran Canaria and Tenerife, with flights to Lanzarote starting in April 2011. All three services will operate on a year round basis.
The new routes bring to six the number of scheduled European services from the airport following the introduction of the hugely successful services to Alicante, Faro-Algarve, and Reus-Barcelona which commenced earlier this year. The addition of these new services will complement Ryanair’s existing network of routes at Ireland West Knock, which includes daily scheduled services to Liverpool, London Luton, and London Stansted airports in addition to the four times a week services to East Midlands and the three times a week services to Bristol and Leeds Bradford.
It is expected that this latest expansion by Ryanair at Ireland West Knock will generate some 35,000 additional annual passengers at the airport.
