Ryanair moves in to Norwich Airport with new flights to Spain
The airline will fly to Alicante, Faro and Malta from April next year
Tiny Norwich Airport has received a big boost this week with news that Ryanair plans to open a brand new base at the East Anglia site, with flights to Spain, Portugal and Malta scheduled for the spring.
The airport currently only serves around 319,000 passengers and is the UK’s 28th smallest aerodrome; even so, it still serves some popular foreign destinations like the Greek islands, Tenerife and Amsterdam.
But the latest development is a massive boost and according to aviation website ‘Simply Flying’, from April 1, Ryanair will operate direct flights from Norwich to Alicante, Faro and Malta every Monday and Friday.
There’s also some welcome news for little-known Lydd Airport, which will soon resume flights to holiday hotspots such as Le Touquet in France. More commonly known as London Ashford Airport, the Lydd base stopped carrying passengers back in 2018.
It’s not all positive coverage for the budget Irish airline though as Ryanair has caused a storm in the UK this week by allegedly charging passengers extra for downloading their online boarding passes.
Ryanair’s operating procedure means that passengers who are happy to be randomly allocated a seat on the plane can check in for free and save their boarding cards to their phone or print them out. Anyone who wants to specify where they sit has to pay.
However, social media has lit up with passengers claiming they have been forced to either fork out for a seat or queue up at the airport to collect their boarding passes.
Customers are understandably outraged, but Ryanair has flat-out denied that it has changed its policies.
“All Ryanair passengers can pay for a reserved seat if they so wish or if passengers wish to avoid this seat fee, they can select a randomly allocated seat entirely free of charges,” a spokesperson said in response to questions from the media.
Image: Michael Oldfield via Wikimedia Commons
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