Ryanair announced it will start 17 new routes from Palma de Mallorca in March 2012, when it opens its 49th base at Palma Airport.

In addition to Ryanair’s existing 30 Palma routes, the airline will open 17 new routes from Palma to Aarhus, Cork, Gothenburg, Haugesund, Kaunas, Krakow, Maastricht, Malaga, Magdeburg, Marseille, Oslo, Paris Beauvais, Poznan, Santander, Santiago, Stockholm, and Tampere.

Ryanair celebrated its new Palma base (No 49) by launching a 1 million seat sale from €9.99 for travel across 1,000 European routes in late Jan and early Feb 2012. These low fares are available for booking until midnight Thursday (15th Dec).

The airline said it will base 4 aircraft in Palma, operating 47 routes (17 new), delivering 2.8m passengers per year, and sustaining up to 2,800 Balearic jobs.

In Palma, Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary said:

“Ryanair is delighted to announce Palma as our 49th base with a total of 47 routes on sale from tomorrow for summer 2012. Now Palma consumers/ visitors can beat the recession and escape both Air Europa and Air Berlin’s high fares by switching to Ryanair’s lowest fares and enjoy our no fuel surcharge guarantee to 47 exciting destinations. Ryanair’s traffic of 2.8m p.a. will sustain up to 2,800 jobs at Palma Airport and in the tourism industry on the island of Mallorca.”

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