25% of passengers will travel for less than £10! More families than ever heading to sun and ski destinations. Ryanair, the world’s favourite airline, today (20th Dec 09) announced that it will smash all previous Christmas passenger records as over 2.5million passengers travel on their low fare flights between 23rd December and 5th January – with one in four passengers travelling home or to the sun/slopes for less than a tenner (£10) after snapping up heavily discounted fares in seat sales during October and November.

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The subject of the price of ski and board carriage charged by nearly all airlines has been our pet moan for several months now, with the leading offender being Ryanair, who seems to think it’s good customer service to charge £80/80€ for return carriage of one pair of skis or a snowboard.

Well, maybe the airline is listening to the negative comments, as the lowest of the low cost airlines has announced today that it is offering free ski and board carriage for the first 10,000 passengers who book a return ski flight before midnight on Wednesday the 11th November.

Ski flights operated by Ryanair include Grenoble from Birmingham, Liverpool and Stansted as well as Turin from Bristol, East Midlands and Stansted.

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Ryanair announced today that passengers who book a ski flight before midnight Thursday (1 October) can bring their skis for free.

Ryanair’s Winter Ski Programme 2009/10 offers 50 weekly flights from 7 UK airports to ski destinations in Cuneo, Grenoble, Lourdes, Salzburg and Turin at the lowest ski fares in Europe this year!

Ski routes from Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow (Prestwick), Liverpool and London Stansted are available now from just £19.99 one way (incl taxes and charges) on Ryanair.com.

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Ryanair today launched its Winter Ski Programme 2009/10 which offers 50 weekly flights from 7 UK airports to ski destination in Cuneo, Grenoble, Lourdes, Salzburg and Turin at the lowest ski fares in Europe this year.

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Budget airline Ryanair will have as many as 29 destinations from Edinburgh on this year’s winter schedule, including at least two ski routes. Airport executives welcomed the move as the company said yesterday that it would operate eight new Edinburgh routes including Barcelona (Girona), Brussels (Charleroi), Gdansk, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Memmingen (Munich West), Oslo (Torp) and Tenerife.

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