Ryanair to re-open Nuremberg base in summer 2022

Ryanair (FR, Dublin Int’l) will re-open a base in Nuremberg in southern Germany next summer with two aircraft, opening 13 new destinations in Europe, the Irish budget carrier announced.

New routes will include Banja Luka (Bosnia & Herzegovina); Cagliari and Venice Marco Polo (Italy); Chania (Greece); Dublin Int’l (Ireland); Faro and Funchal (Portugal), Girona, Ibiza, and Valencia Manises (Spain); Lviv (Ukraine); Sofia (Bulgaria); and Tallinn Lennart Meri (Estonia). Ryanair will serve 27 destinations with 85 weekly flights from March 2022.

Ryanair shut its base at Nuremberg in 2019 due to delays in the delivery of its B737-8-200s after the type was grounded following two fatal crashes.

The base re-opening will mean an investment of USD200 million and the creation of 60 local direct jobs and almost 1,000 total jobs in the region, the airline said in a statement.

Chief Executive Officer Eddie Wilson took the opportunity to point out that the budget carrier was investing in the regional airport “at a time when the German government is abandoning its regional airports in favour of legacy airlines and major airports”. “At a time when Lufthansa (LH, Frankfurt Int’l) was reducing their fleet, cutting jobs, and closing routes while wasting EUR9 billion of taxpayers’ money in state aid funding, Ryanair would be doubling its Summer 2022 schedule at Nuremberg and rebuilding tourism and creating well-paid local jobs in Germany with zero state aid,” he said.