The Cabildo of Lanzarote and the airline Ryanair presented this Friday the entry into operation of the base that the airline has established on the Island with two planes that will sleep, from these days on, at the Guacimeta Airport.
The objective of the company and the Tourism Board of the Cabildo is to recover the air traffic lost between 2007 and 2009 in Lanzarote. According to Ryanair's forecasts, this base will move 1.2 million passengers annually and will have 30 low-cost routes, of which 12 are new. In total, there are 150 flights a week in and out of Lanzarote, which entails 1,200 jobs on the Island, including 100 direct jobs at Ryanair among pilots, cabin crew and engineers.
In this way, Ryanair will have the Island connected with Barcelona, Birmingham, Bologna, Bournemouth, Bristol, Brussels, Cork, Dublin, Dusseldorf, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Frankfurt Hahn, Glasgow, Karlsruhe Bdn, Knock, Liverpool, Leeds Bradford, London Luton, London Stansted, Madrid, Milan, Santander, Santiago, Seville, Shannon, Valencia, Valladolid, Venice Treviso and Zaragoza.
Precisely to celebrate the opening of the base in Lanzarote, the airline has offered seats at a price of 7 euros to travel on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays in May on more than 1,200 Ryanair routes throughout Europe. These seats are available to book at www.ryanair.com until midnight on Monday, April 11.
For the president of the Cabildo, Pedro San Ginés, and the Minister of Tourism, Carmen González, present at the event, "this is a great opportunity to strengthen the reception of German tourism, consolidating our brand in the German country. However, we highlight the fact of establishing the connection with Italy, recovering a very interesting market for Lanzarote, and the diversification that we achieve in the European market with all these routes, coinciding with the market strategy that has been proposed by the Tourism Board and the Society for Foreign Promotion of Lanzarote.
In this sense, the marketing director of Ryanair, Luis Fernández, indicated that the company is "delighted to officially inaugurate its 44th base in Lanzarote with the thirty routes. The growth of the company is linked to the forward-looking initiatives of the Canary Islands Government, which in recent years has identified having low-cost flights as fundamental for tourism development, and has worked with Ryanair to reduce operating costs at Canary Islands airports in order to return to the record numbers in tourism reached in 2007".
The presentation, held at Guacimeta Airport, featured a symbolic act represented in the baptism of one of Ryanair's flights from Bristol at 12:00 noon.
The baptism of the aircraft and the delivery of a gift, a bouquet of flowers and a ticket to visit Lanzarote again with Ryanair, was the surprise that one of the tourist families received, who were greeted at the foot of the stairs by the President of the Cabildo, the Minister of Tourism, the marketing director of Ryanair, and the director of Guacimeta Airport, Dionisio Canomanuel.
