Ryanair Announces New Aircraft Base in Copenhagen

The top airline in Europe, Ryanair, has announced plans to establish a two-plane base in Copenhagen starting in December 2023. This $200 million investment in new aircraft will result in up to 100 direct jobs for pilots, cabin staff, and engineers. With 20 flights and 2.3 million passengers each year travelling to and from Copenhagen, Ryanair is already the third-largest airline in Copenhagen.

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Ryanair will be able to provide its unparalleled low tickets to Danish inhabitants and visitors who seek early departures and late arrivals at Copenhagen but cannot pay the extremely high air fares being charged by State-subsidized high fare airlines SAS and Norwegian as a result of these new two aircraft base. In addition to Billund, Copenhagen becomes Ryanair’s second base in Denmark. There are 24 routes available on Ryanair’s winter ’23 schedule to/from Copenhagen, including 4 intriguing new locations: Dusseldorf, Faro, Paris, and Warsaw. There are also more frequent flights to Gdansk and Krakow.

The only large airline in the EU with considerable post-Covid traffic growth is Ryanair. Ryanair anticipates carrying 184 million passengers in 2023–2024, up 24% from 149 million in pre–Covid travel. Ryanair operates flights from Billund, Denmark, where it has a base for two aircraft, to the other three Danish airports of Aalborg, Aarhus, and Copenhagen. With the addition of a new 2-aircraft base in Copenhagen in December, Ryanair will be able to provide low-cost competition and options for departures in the morning and arrivals in the evening.

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In accordance with the CLA it has signed with the Danske Metal Union in Denmark, which currently governs wages and working conditions at its base in Billund, Ryanair will establish the 100 new jobs. Ryanair’s new Copenhagen base complies fully with Danish employment law and these high paid jobs will all pay their taxes in Denmark.

Ryanair anticipates using the low-cost “CPH GO” port in Copenhagen. Ryanair urges Copenhagen to reduce the excessive airport fees that are still impeding the city’s post-Covid recovery. Only about 85% of Copenhagen’s pre-Covid volumes can be accommodated at S23, and the city’s slow economic recovery is a result of its high airport costs. Ryanair requests that the Danish Regulator follow the example of numerous other EU airports that reduced airport fees after Covid in order to compensate for traffic growth.

Ryanair has launched a Danish seat sale, with 50,000 seats starting at just 229DKK one way, to honour the opening of its new two-aircraft base in Copenhagen and the expansion of its base in Billund. These seats must be reserved by Thursday, August 24, for travel between November 1 and December 10, 2023.These low fares at Billund and Copenhagen are available only on www.Ryanair.com.