New routes to East Europe

Ryanair has announced five new routes from Cork to Eastern Europe, going on sale from today. 

Speaking at the Clarion Hotel in Cork this morning, Ryanair's Michael Cawley confirmed that the low-cost airline will fly to five different cities in Poland and Lithuania - Gdansk, Krakow, Warsaw, Wroclaw and Vilnius. 

"Our Cork winter schedule 2012 now grows to two based aircraft and 10 routes which will deliver over 850,000 passengers per annum at Cork airport, sustaining over 800 on-site jobs," said Mr Cawley. 

The announcement of the routes is to compete against Wizz airline, with Ryanair offering fares 50 per cent cheaper. 

To celebrate the new routes, Ryanair are offering 100,000 seats from €15 for travel across Europe on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays in September and October, available until midnight on

Monday 6 August on www.ryanair.com.