[Article] Ryanair announces new Dusseldorf base

Victor

Of note, Dusseldorf is part owned by DAA.

http://www.rte.ie/business/2007/0206/ryanair.html

Ryanair announces new Dusseldorf base
Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:46

Ryanair has annouced 16 new routes and a new base at a regional airport near Dusseldorf in Germany to open from June.

The new routes mean that Ryanair will be operating from four new airports - Alicante in Spain, Maastricht in the Netherlands, Palma de Maollorca in Spain and Zadar in Croatia.

New destinations from Dublin include Alicante and Bremen to start in May.

Among the other new routes are Dusseldorf to Alicante, Venice and Palma, and flights from Stansted in London to Alicante, Palma and Zadar.

mackerski

Weeze is 55km from Düsseldorf as the crow flies. As such, it's closer to Eindhoven. Worth having Ryanair in there, though, but a lot less so without any flights from Ireland.

dowlingm

DAA are likely to dispose of their DUS and BHX stakes I understand.

Ruu_Old

mackerski wrote:

Weeze is 55km from Düsseldorf as the crow flies. As such, it's closer to Eindhoven. Worth having Ryanair in there, though, but a lot less so without any flights from Ireland.

Should have done my research as I found this out 2 years ago to my suprise when flying from Stansted. I luckily caught the last shuttle to the city.

mobpd

Ruu wrote:

Should have done my research as I found this out 2 years ago to my suprise when flying from Stansted. I luckily caught the last shuttle to the city.

In fact AA or Michelin routeplanner put Weeze airport 80km away from Dusseldorf ......(about the same distance as Dundalk from Dublin airport) - so not very local to Dusseldorf then for the quick weekend trips

Flukey

There is a slight chance that I'll be going to Dusseldorf later this year, so this is good news. Of course, in typical Ryanair style, it is not really near Dusseldorf. It is surprising that Ryanair don't refer to Shannon as Dublin.

mackerski

mobpd wrote:

In fact AA or Michelin routeplanner put Weeze airport 80km away from Dusseldorf ......(about the same distance as Dundalk from Dublin airport) - so not very local to Dusseldorf then for the quick weekend trips

Crows aren't constrained by roads

Weeze still has its value, though. It's ideally placed for much of rural Belgium and NL. More usefully, big wodges of the Ruhr connurbation are only half as far away from it as Düsseldorf is. As with all these things, it really just depends where you want to go. I'm sure that all Ryanair's second airports suit somebody (though I'm not convinced about Hahn).

zeusnero

Flukey wrote:

There is a slight chance that I'll be going to Dusseldorf later this year, so this is good news. Of course, in typical Ryanair style, it is not really near Dusseldorf. It is surprising that Ryanair don't refer to Shannon as Dublin.

Come on that's a low blow even for Ryanair!

Now Dublin (West) I can see happening