Ryanair launches new flights from Bristol
West Country residents will shortly be able to fly direct to two more destinations they have probably never heard of and certainly will struggle to pronounce: Bydgoszcz in Poland and Kaunas in Lithuania.
Budget airline Ryanair, which has already made a fortune flying people to places they didn't know they wanted to visit, will launch flights to Bydgoszcz and Kaunas from Bristol airport in May.
The airline recently announced it was on course to make a full-year profit of around £230m after boosting passenger numbers by slashing fares to an average of just £26 per passenger during the last three months of 2009.
Fares on the new routes out of Bristol start from £26.99 one way, including taxes and charges, which is probably just about cheap enough to persuade passengers to check out the two cities, even if they aren't sure exactly where they are going.
The new flights will operate twice a week, with Bydgoszcz (which is twinned with nearby Swansea) starting on May 1 and Kaunas starting on May 3.
Ryanair already flies from Bristol to four cities in Poland but its flight to Kaunas will be its first to Lithuania from the West Country airport.
The airline expects to launch a total of 200 new routes by the end of the summer, but it admits up to 10 per cent of these will fail. Presumably because not many passengers really want to go to unpronounceable, unheard of destinations - or certainly not more than once.
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