Ryanair inaugurates flights from Bristol and Madrid - Leeds/Bradford from March 2010

Ryanair is now flying direct from Malta to six countries and eleven airports in Europe. Ryanair’s inaugural flight from Bristol to Malta, FR3774, landed on Sunday the 5th of July at 10:30am with a load factor of approximately 83%, or 156 passengers. Ryanair’s inaugural flight from Madrid, Spain, landed in Malta on 17th July with 165 passengers on board: a load factor of over 87%.

Malta Tourism Authority CEO, Josef Formosa Gauci expressed satisfaction that the new route to Malta from Bristol kicked off positively with a relatively high load factor and augured that the Bristol route would continue to be popular, thus strengthening the flight capacity from Malta’s core source market, the UK.

Ryanair operate flights to Malta from Bristol, with return, on Wednesdays and Sundays whilst the Madrid-Malta route flies thrice-weekly flights on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

Meanwhile commenting on the inauguration of the Madrid route, Malta Tourism Authority chairman Sam Mifsud, said that “air accessibility to Malta is the lifeblood of our tourism industry. That is precisely why we are very pleased to welcome Ryanair’s eleventh route to Malta currently in operation. Moreover, the Madrid route further strengthens our air link with the Iberian peninsula, wherein Spain is fast becoming one of our key source markets”.

Ryanair, the low cost carrier, now serves 11 routes to Malta. These are: Treviso/Venezia, Pisa, Trapani and Bari in Italy; Luton, Bristol and Edinburgh in the UK; Madrid and Girona in Spain; Dublin in Ireland and Stockholm Skavsta in Sweden, in recent days Ryanair also announced that it would be flying to Malta from Leeds/Bradford as of March 2010.