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Ryanair launches US website telling punters to "Trade Route 66 for the Wild Atlantic Way"

The Irish airline has launched a new website appealing to travelers from the US. The site allows ...
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12.20 24 Dec 2014


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Ryanair launches US website telling punters to "Trade Route 66 for the Wild Atlantic Way"

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12.20 24 Dec 2014


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The Irish airline has launched a new website appealing to travelers from the US. The site allows customers to browse, and pay for flights in dollars.

It highlights a number of routes from European cities to Irish airports - and other cheap flights like London to Dusseldorf for $13.29.

The introduction of transatlantic flights have been a long stated ambition of the company - but that remains at least three years away.

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Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary has publicly said that he would like the company to introduce a low-cost service between the US and Europe. He thinks that Ryanair could fly between some 15 European cities, and 12 US destinations.

He has cited the difficulty of sourcing long-haul aircrafts as one issues that is slowing down the project.

Speaking about the prospect to the Deloitte Enterprise Ireland CeoForum, he said: "The good news is we think we can do it, we think we can make a lot of money, but the bad news is we can’t source the aircraft … for probably three or four years unless there is some significant change in the ordering profiles for long-haul aircraft."

London, Dublin, Barcelona, Rome and Paris are currently the airline's most popular destinations for US flyers.


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