Ryanair has announced plans for its 17th European base in Bremen, Germany, which will become operational in April 2007.
Ryanair is investing €165 million in three Boeing 737 800 aircraft to be located at Bremen, which will service nine new European routes. Two of the planes will be based there from April next with the third arriving in September 2007.
Following an EU tender, Ryanair has also purchased a terminal facility at the airport for €7.9 million.
Ryanair says the new base will create 150 jobs and will fly over one million passengers per annum into the region by 2009.
It will operate routes from Bremen to London, Oslo, Barcelona, Murcia, Tampere, Venice, Pisa, Riga and Verona.
Ryanair already has a German base in Frankfurt Hahn which it established six years ago. It carries four million passengers annually from Frankfurt Hahn, and Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary said he expected this figure to double in the next six years.