Ryanair (FR, Dublin International) has again announced plans to order at least additional 200 B737-800s or A320 family aircraft if it can get the volume discounts it expects from the two aircraft manufacturers. It has given up its second attempt of an unfriendly takeover bid for competitor Aer Lingus (EI/Dublin) after it has failed to gain support of important Aer Lingus shareholders including the Irish government. Ryanair will launch a large amount of additional new routes this summer season and has announced that it has entered into final negotiations with Copenhagen Kastrup airport about adding the airport to its network: Alicante-Bratislava: 2x weekly service starting on June 5 Alicante-Knock: 2x weekly service starting on June 5 Alicante-Londonderry: 2x weekly service starting on June 4 Alicante-Newquay: 2x weekly service resuming on June 2 Alicante-Oslo Torp: 3x weekly service starting on June 3 Alicante-Wroclaw: 2x weekly service starting on June 4 Bournemouth-Carcassonne: 2x weekly service starting on June 6 Bournemouth-Faro: 2x weekly service starting on March 31 Bournemouth-Limoges: 2x weekly service starting on April 2 Bournemouth-Pisa: 2x weekly service resuming on April 1 Bremen-Faro: 2x weekly service starting on March 31 Bristol-Alicante: daily service starting on July 2 Bristol-Belfast City: daily service starting on March 30 Bristol-Cagliari: 2x weekly service starting on July 5 Bristol-Eindhoven: 3x weekly service starting on March 31 Bristol-Limoges: 3x weekly service starting on July 2 Bristol-Malta: 2x weekly service starting on July 5 Bristol-Montpellier: 3x weekly service starting on July 2 Bristol-Perpignan: 2x weekly service starting on July 3 Bristol-Reus: 3x weekly service starting on July 2 Bristol-Rimini: 2x weekly service starting on July 2 Bristol-Seville: 2x weekly service starting on July 3 Bristol-Toulon: 3x weekly service starting on July 2 Bristol-Trieste: 2x weekly service stating on July 5 Brussels Charleroi-Santander: 2x weekly service starting on April 1 Dusseldorf Weeze-Stockholm Vasteras: 3x weekly service starting on March 30 (in addition to Skavsta services) Edinburgh-Altenburg: 3x weekly service starting on March 31 Edinburgh-Carcassonne: 3x weekly service starting on March 31 Edinburgh-Limoges: 2x weekly service starting on March 30 Edinburgh-Malta: 2x weekly service starting on March 31 Edinburgh-Poitiers: 2x weekly service starting on April 1 Edinburgh-Rome Ciampino: 4x weekly service starting on April 1 Edinburgh-Zadar: 2x weekly service starting on April 1 Frankfurt Hahn-Alicante: 4x weekly service starting on July 4 Frankfurt Hahn-Carcassonne: 3x weekly service starting on May 5 Frankfurt Hahn-Osijek: 2x weekly service starting on May 6 Frankfurt Hahn-Rimini: 2x weekly service starting on May 5 Girona-Seville: daily service starting on April 2 Girona-Stockholm Vasteras: 2x weekly service starting on June 4 (in addition to Skavsta services) Hamburg Lübeck-Palma de Mallorca: daily service starting on March 30 Liverpool-Ibiza: 3x weekly service starting on March 30 London Luton-Bergerac: 3x weekly service starting on March 30 London Luton-Limoges: 3x weekly service starting on May 3 London Stansted-Newquay: daily service resuming on March 2 Marseilles-Basle/Mulhouse: 2x weekly service starting on March 30 Marseilles-Biarritz: 3x weekly service starting on March 30 Marseilles-London Gatwick: daily service starting on March 30 Marseilles-Nantes: daily service starting on March 30 Marseilles-Tours: 3x weekly service starting on March 31 Nottingham-Ibiza: 3x weekly service starting on March 31 Pisa-Bratislava: 2x weekly service starting on April 2 Pisa-Maastricht: 3x weekly service starting on April 1 Reus-Bournemouth: 2x weekly service starting on March 31 Reus-Eindhoven: 5x weekly service starting on June 4 Reus-Nador: 2x weekly service starting on June 6 Reus-Poznan: 2x weekly service starting on June 5 Stockholm Skavsta-Palma de Mallorca: 2x weekly service starting on April 2 Stockholm Skavsta-Toulon: 2x weekly service starting on April 21 Stockholm Skavsta-Zadar: 2x weekly service starting on April 1 Ryanair has announced plans to cut the number of aircraft based in Dublin from 22 to 18 and in Shannon from 6 to 4 from March in “response” to a new Irish airport tax. It had previously announced similar plans for its Frankfurt Hahn base where threat made by Ryanair resulted in a proposed airport tax being dropped and airport owner Fraport entering into negotiations with the German state Rhineland-Palatinate to sell its 65% stake in the airport. Ryanair has in the meantime also offered to buy a minority stake in Frankfurt Hahn airport. It will however give up its Birmingham-Szczecin, Bournemouth-Wroclaw, Bristol-Gdansk/Katowice/Szczecin, Dusseldorf Weeze-London Gatwick, Liverpool-Budapest/Faro/Gdansk/Lodz/Paris Beauvais/Szczecin/Valencia, London Luton-Biarritz/Szczecin, Nottingham-Lodz/Poznan, Shannon-Berlin Schönefeld/Frankfurt Hahn/Gdansk/Katowice/London Luton/Newcastle and Stockholm Skavsta-Lodz routes by the end of March.