Ryanair launches flash sale on 1 million seats with fares from £9.99 – to celebrate flying 1 billion passengers
The winter sale covers several popular routes across Europe for customers travelling between November 13 and December 15
RYANAIR has launched a huge flash sale to celebrate the fact that it has now carried more than 1 billion passengers.
The airline is offering 20 per cent off 1 million seats, with tickets on offer from £9.99.
The winter sale, nicknamed “Thanks A Billion”, covers several popular routes across Europe for customers travelling between November 13 and December 15.
Flights to Grenoble in France and Luxembourg City can be snapped up for under a tenner, and fares to Barcelona Reus, Ancona in Italy and Aarhus in Denmark can be bought for £11.99.
It ends at midnight tonight though, so you’ll have to be quick.
The sale comes just a couple of weeks after the low-cost airline’s chief exec revealed that the cost of flights is set to fall even further in the next few months.
The budget airline revealed that fares could be cut by as much as nine per cent from last year on some routes during late summer.
Chief Executive Michael O’Leary said that it was expecting fares to drop by five per cent in the six-month period from now until September, and eight per cent in the following period to March 2018.
The price cuts are partly fuelled by competition from other low-cost airlines.
Chief Financial Officer Neil Sorahan also said that the fall in average fares was due to lower fuel prices.
The airline said that its fuel bill had dropped in recent months and that it has also secured a good deal on oil per barrel for the upcoming months.
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But much is also due to over-capacity in Spain, Portugal and Italy as charter carriers shift capacity away from Turkey and North Africa.
Ryanair also warned once again of the impact of Brexit on the UK flight industry, threatening to move the airline’s UK-based aircraft to continental Europe.