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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
reports
under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.
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contained
in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to
the
Commission
pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities
Exchange
Act of
1934.
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...... No ..X..
If
"Yes" is marked, indicate below the file number assigned to the
registrant
in
connection with Rule 12g3-2(b): 82- ________
RYANAIR
LAUNCHES RECORD WINTER 2017 SCOTLAND SCHEDULE
15
NEW ROUTES DELIVER 20% GROWTH, 5M CUSTOMERS
Ryanair, Europe's
No. 1 airline, today (16 Feb) launched its biggest-ever Scottish
winter schedule, with 13 new Edinburgh routes to Baden, Budapest,
Carcassonne, Eindhoven, Hamburg, Katowice, Nantes, Prague,
Szczecin, Toulouse, Venice, Valencia and Wroclaw (38 in total), and
2 new Glasgow routes to Krakow and Madrid (17 in total), which will
deliver 20% growth and over 5m customers p.a. in total at Ryanair's
4 Scottish Airports and supporting 3,750 jobs.
Ryanair
will continue to connect Scotland with major business centres on
high frequency, low fare services including Berlin (daily), Dublin
(6 daily), London (7 daily) and Rome (daily), with better timings
and lower fares, making Ryanair the ideal choice for Scottish
business and leisure customers, as these new routes will go on sale
in February 2017.
Ryanair's Scotland
Winter 2017 schedule will deliver:
Edinburgh
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13 new routes: Baden (2 wkly), Budapest (2), Carcassonne (2),
Eindhoven (3), Hamburg (2),
Katowice
(2), Nantes (2), Prague (3), Szczecin (2), Toulouse (2),
Venice
Treviso
(3), Valencia (3) & Wroclaw (2)
·
Extra flights to Copenhagen (5 wkly) & Fuerteventura
(2)
·
38 routes in total
·
2.8m customers p.a. (+14%)
·
2,100* "on-site" jobs p.a.
Glasgow
International:
·
2 new routes to Krakow (2 wkly) & Madrid (4)
·
17 routes in total
·
1.4m customers p.a. (+ 24%)
·
1,000 * "on-site" jobs p.a.
Glasgow
Prestwick:
·
9 routes in total (including Alicante, Lanzarote &
Tenerife)
·
675,000 customers p.a. (+4%)
Aberdeen:
·
2 routes to Alicante and Malaga
·
80,000 customers p.a.
Ryanair's Scotland
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
Edinburgh, Ryanair's Michael O'Leary said:
"We are pleased to launch our biggest-ever Scotland winter
schedule, with 15 new routes and 20% growth which will deliver over
5 m customers p.a. and support 3,750 jobs at Ryanair's four
Scottish Airports. We are also pleased to report record bookings on
our Scottish summer 2017 schedule, and Scottish 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 Scotland.
We call on the Scottish Government to follow the Irish example and
scrap APD entirely to allow Scottish traffic, tourism and jobs to
grow and ensure Scottish airports can compete and attract more
business. The scrapping of APD would enable Ryanair to base more
aircraft in Scotland, add even more new routes and and create
thousands of additional jobs.
To celebrate the launch of our Scotland 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
(20 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: 16
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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