The Irish airline Ryanair today (5th of September) opened its new base at Memmingen, its tenth base in Germany, with one based aircraft and 35 Ryanair employees, who have also found new home in Memmingen and its surroundings. In winter 2017/18 and summer 2018 six new routes to Fez, Oradea, Seville, Stockholm, Thessaloniki and Warsaw, as well as extra flights to Palma de Mallorca and Alicante are launched.
Kenny Jacobs, Chief Marketing Officer of Ryanair, had arrived from Dublin for the opening to celebrate an even closer relationship between airline and airport together with airport manager Ralf Schmid. The new routes will deliver about 860,000 passengers p.a. that is why more than 1.1 million passengers are expected in 2018.