Corfu

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Irish budget carrier, Ryanair is to significantly grow its activities from Manchester, Birmingham and Newcastle airports in the UK next year, introducing a total of ten new routes from the three facilities as part of an expanded offering from the summer schedule.

The arrival of the single 737-800 will facilitate the introduction of new links to Corfu from Birmingham, Bratislava, Budapest, Cologne, Rome, Katowice, Poznan, Pisa, Rzeszow, Venice and Warsaw Modlin as well as enable increased frequencies on its existing routes from Brussels Charleroi, East Midlands, London Stansted and Milan Bergamo.

The airline has added an additional 20 routes to its schedule, including three from its new Amsterdam base.

UK low-fare carrier, easyJet, has announced the introduction of four new routes from its largest base at London Gatwick Airport for summer 2014

Central and Eastern European low-cost carrier Wizz Air has announced it will base a third aircraft at Vilnius International Airport in Lithuania from

UK leisure carrier Thomas Cook Airlines is to add additional flight capacity from London Stansted Airport in its summer 2014 schedule after agreeing