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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
Report of Foreign Private Issuer
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For the
month of February 2017
RYANAIR HOLDINGS PLC
(Translation
of registrant's name into English)
c/o Ryanair Ltd Corporate Head Office
Dublin
Airport
County Dublin Ireland
(Address
of principal executive offices)
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by check mark whether the registrant files or will file
annual
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registrant
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RYANAIR LAUNCHES RECORD WINTER 2017 LONDON SCHEDULE
9 NEW WINTER ROUTES TO AALBORG, CAGLIARI, COPENHAGEN,
NAPLES,
NICE, ORADEA, OSLO TORP, PARDUBICE & PONTA DELGADA, 23.8M
CUSTOMERS
Ryanair,
Europe's No. 1 airline, today (23 Feb) launched its biggest-ever
London winter schedule (2017), with 3 new London Stansted routes to
Aalborg, Oradea and Pardubice, 6 new winter services to Cagliari,
Copenhagen, Naples, Nice, Oslo Torp and Ponta Delgada, more
flights on 13 existing routes and over 140 routes in total, which
will deliver 23.8m customers p.a. in total at Ryanair's 3 London
Airports, supporting 17,000* jobs.
Ryanair
will continue to connect London with major business centres on high
frequency, low fare services including Berlin (4 daily), Dublin (18
daily), Edinburgh (4 daily) and Madrid (4 daily), with better
timings and lower fares, making Ryanair the ideal choice for London
business and leisure customers and visitors, and these new routes
will go on sale in February 2017.
Ryanair's
London Winter 2017 schedule will deliver:
London Stansted
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3 new routes:
Aalborg (3 wkly), Oradea (3 wkly) & Pardubice (3
wkly)
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6 new winter services:
Cagliari (3 wkly), Copenhagen (3 daily), Naples (daily), Nice
(daily), Oslo Torp (3 wkly),
Ponta Delgada (1
wkly)
·
Extra flights on 13 routes: Billund (2 daily),
Bratislava (2 daily), Budapest (3 daily), Cologne (2 daily), Baden
(9 wkly), Lublin (4 wkly), Marseille (daily), Stockholm
Skavsta (2 daily), Plovdiv (3 wkly), Poznan (9 wkly), Prague (2
daily), Sofia (16 wkly), Toulouse (2 daily)
·
124 routes in total
·
Over 1,100 weekly flights
·
20.5m customers p.a. (+4%)
·
15,000* "on-site" jobs p.a.
London Gatwick:
·
5 routes to Alicante (6 wkly), Belfast (5 daily), Dublin (8 daily),
Cork (daily) & Shannon (6 wkly)
·
110 weekly flights
·
1.7 m customers p.a.
·
1,275* "on-site" jobs p.a.
London Luton:
·
15 routes including Fuertaventura (2 wkly), Lanzarote (2 wkly),
Malta (4 wkly) & Tenerife (2 wkly)
·
72 weekly flights
·
1.6m customers p.a
·
1,200* "on-site" jobs p.a.
Ryanair's
London summer 2017 schedule is attracting record bookings, with
more frequencies to sun destinations for summer family holidays,
lower fares as Ryanair passes on lower fuel costs, and an even
better customer experience, as it continues to roll out its "Always
Getting Better" improvements.
In London, Ryanair's Kenny Jacobs said:
"We are pleased to launch our
biggest-ever London winter schedule, with 9 new London Stansted
winter routes and extra flights on 13 existing routes, which will
deliver 23.8m customers p.a. and support over 17,000 jobs at
Ryanair's three London airports. We are also pleased to
report record bookings on our London summer 2017 schedule, and
customers can look forward to even lower fares, so there's never
been a better time to book a low fare flight on Ryanair. We urge
all customers who wish to book their holidays to do so now on the
Ryanair.com website or mobile app, where they can avail of the
lowest fare air travel to and from London
To celebrate the launch of our London winter 2017 schedule we are
releasing seats for sale across our European network from just
£9.99, which are available for booking until midnight Monday
(27 Feb). Since these amazing low prices will be snapped up
quickly, customers should log onto www.ryanair.com
and avoid missing out."
ENDS
*ACI
research confirms up to 750 'on-site' jobs are sustained at
international airports for every 1m passengers
For further information
please contact:
Robin
Kiely Piaras
Kelly
Ryanair
DAC
Edelman Ireland
Tel:
+353-1-9451949
Tel: +353-1-6789333
press@ryanair.com
ryanair@edelman.com
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf
by the undersigned, hereunto duly authorized.
Date: 23
February, 2017
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By:___/s/
Juliusz Komorek____
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Juliusz
Komorek
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Company
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