Ryanair opens base at Porto

Ryanair is to open its 33rd base at Porto in northern Portugal, it announced today.

The budget airline will offer 50 daily return flights to and from Porto. It said the investment was worth over $140 million.

The four new routes opening in September and going on sale today are from Porto to Basel, Eindhoven, St Etienne and Tours.

Ryanair said these routes, combined with a doubling of flights to Paris Beauvais to twice daily would increase its traffic at Porto to 1.5 million passengers per annum and would sustain 1,500 local jobs.