Ryanair Targets Lufthansa, Air Berlin With German Route Growth
- Discount airline seeks 20% of German market versus 5% now
- New bases set for Hamburg, Nuremburg as Berlin fleet expands
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Ryanair Holdings Plc will double operations in Berlin and add bases in Hamburg and Nuremberg as it seeks a fourfold expansion of its share of the German airline market at the expense of Air Berlin Plc and Deutsche Lufthansa AG.
Four additional aircraft will be stationed at Ryanair’s base at Berlin Schoenefeld Airport, bringing the total there to nine, and its passenger numbers in Hamburg will double as two planes are assigned to that city in November. Ryanair is sticking to plans to account for 20 percent of Germany’s aviation market in coming years compared with about 5 percent currently, Chief Marketing Officer Kenny Jacobs told journalists in Berlin on Wednesday.