Ryanair is to set up a new European base at Nottingham East Midlands Airport in England, adding ten new routes to its existing five.
The airline will base two new Boeing 737s at the airport from March 7, introducing routes to Berlin, Derry, Nimes, Carcassonne, Nantes, Dinard, Limoges, Lodz, Wroclaw and Bergerac.
Ryanair already flies from Nottingham to Dublin, Shannon, Murcia, Barcelona and Rome.
Chief executive Michael O'Leary said the airline would deliver 1.2 million passengers a year to the airport.
The airline also today announced a new route to Derry from its Liverpool base. It says the new route, which will commence next February, will operate daily and deliver an additional 100,000 passengers into the North West region.
Shares in the company closed two cent lower at €6.73 in Dublin this evening.
