Ryanair announced it would open new base in Malaga in June next year, its 38th base. It will have 4 based aircraft and 39 routes, 19 of them new. They will createover 200 jobs and offer 360 weekly flights with Malaga. Estimate invest round $250 million.

Ryanair celebrated its new base with an incredible offer, releasing 500.000 tickets at 5€ on routes across Europe in the new year. day (17th Dec).

In Malaga today, Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary said:

“Ryanair is delighted to announce Malaga as our 38th base with 19 new routes from next June which go on sale on www.ryanair.com tomorrow. With a total of 39 low fare routes from Malaga next summer Spanish consumers and visitors can beat the recession by choosing Ryanair’s lowest fares and our no fuel surcharge guarantee on 39 exciting destinations all over Europe including France, Italy and Germany among others. Ryanair’s 2m passengers p.a. will sustain 2,000 jobs locally at Malaga Airport”.

New routes for 2010:

To                                  Date                  To                             Date
Aarhus                     23 Jun           Pisa                         24 Jun
Berlin (Sch)            25 Jun           Santander              24 Jun
Bratislava                23 Jun           Santiago                23 Jun
Eindhoven               23 Jun          Stockholm (Skav) 24 Jun
Gothenburg             25 Jun          Tampere                 25 Jun
Krakow                     24 Jun          Valladolid              23 Jun
Maastricht               23 Jun          Venice (Treviso)   24 Jun
Memmingen            24 Jun         Wroclaw                  25 Jun
Oslo (Torp)             23 Jun          Zaragoza                 24 Jun
Paris (Beav)            23 Jun

More info at: www.ryanair.com