Ryanair has announced a new growth deal with Manchester Airports Group (MAG) which will deliver nine new London Stansted routes, including a daily service to Naples and a three times daily service to Copenhagen, as well as routes to Beziers, Cagliari, Clermont, Grenoble, Nice, Nimes and Strasbourg, extra flights on 13 existing routes, and over 20 million customers this year, supporting 15,000 jobs at London Stansted Airport.

 Ryanair’s extended London Stansted summer 2017 schedule will deliver:

• 9 new routes to: Naples (daily), Copenhagen (3 daily), Beziers (3 wkly), Cagliari (3 wkly),

         Clermont (2 wkly), Grenoble (3 wkly), Nice (daily), Nimes (4 wkly) & Strasbourg (2 wkly)  

• More flights to:  Bergerac (2 daily), Biarritz (11 wkly), Bordeaux (daily), Carcasonne (12 wkly)

Dinard (daily), La Rochelle (daily), Lamezia (5 wkly), Limoges (10 wkly),

Lourdes (5 wkly), Marseille (12 wkly), Perpignan (9 wkly),Porto (16 wkly) & Toulouse (2 daily)

• 140 routes in total

• Over 20 million customers this year

• Over 15,000 “on-site” jobs.

Ryanair’s Chief Commercial Officer David O’Brien said: “We are pleased to announce a new growth deal with Manchester Airports Group at London Stansted Airport, which enables Ryanair to add nine new London Stansted routes this summer, including a daily flight to Naples and a three times daily service to Copenhagen, increase frequency on 13 existing routes and deliver over 20 million annual customers this year. Having grown our London Stansted traffic from 13.2m in 2013 to over 20 million this year, this new deal will allow Ryanair to continue to expand our route network at Stansted, our largest European base.  

"To celebrate our new growth deal and nine new London Stansted routes, we are releasing seats for sale across our European network from just £19.99, which are available for booking until Tuesday (17 Jan).”

 Divisional CEO at London Stansted, Andrew Cowan said: “Today’s announcement by Ryanair is fantastic news for Stansted Airport and passengers from across the east of England and London. Ryanair is an important and valued partner for us at Stansted and we're delighted to support the airline's exciting expansion plans for the summer, which will help ensure Stansted remains one of the UK’s fastest growing airports and see us serve well over 25 million passengers a year within the next 12 months.  

"Stansted sits at the heart of one of the UK’s most innovative and rapidly developing growth corridors between London and Cambridge, so the new destinations and increase in flights on key routes will offer passengers and businesses even more choice at great value. This builds on the strength of Ryanair’s extensive network at Stansted that now serves 140 destinations from the airline’s largest base in Europe.”