Ryanair add 10 new routes to North West England

Ryanair have added 10 new routes across North West England, with flights launching in Winter 2021.

Ryanair have added 4 new routes from Liverpool and 6 new routes from Manchester, commencing from October 2021.

Liverpool

Ryanair recently announced new routes to Rome Fiumincino and Stockholm Arlanda, and have expanded on this by adding 4 new routes:
Milan Bergamo - 2x weekly flights
Paris Beauvais - 2x weekly flights
Sibiu - 2x weekly flights
Tallinn - 2x weekly flights

All four routes are unserved. easyJet recently cut its Liverpool to Paris Charles de Gaulle route, thus Ryanair is an indirect replacement to this service. Additionally, this is the first Ryanair route from Sibiu to the UK, with only Wizz Air serving the UK form Sibiu (to London Luton).

Manchester currently have Ryanair flights to Milan Bergamo and Paris Beauvais, meaning the Ryanair additions will complement its existing network 40 miles away.

With these new routes, Ryanair are forecast to serve 1.9 million annual passengers and serving 40 airports across 19 countries.

Manchester

Earlier this week, easyJet announced 2 new routes from Manchester for Winter 2021 (Fuerteventura and Isle of Man), and now Ryanair have announced 6 new routes for Winter 2021:
Kaunas - 2x weekly flights
Paphos - 2x weekly flights
Poznan - 2x weekly flights
Salzburg - 1x weekly flight
Suceava - 2x weekly flights
Zagreb - 2x weekly flights

Of these six routes, four are unserved from Manchester - Kaunas, Poznan, Suceava and Zagreb - with Kaunas being the sole route from Manchester to Lithuania. Additionally, earlier in 2021, Ryanair commenced the sole route from Manchester to Romania, with 3x weekly flights to Bucharest, meaning Suceava is the second Romanian route from Manchester - and first Ryanair route from Suceava to the UK, with only Wizz Air serving the UK from Suceava (to Doncaster/Sheffield and London Luton). Zagreb was served by Monarch until its collapse in 2017, meaning Manchester will be connected to the Croatian capital after a four year hiatus.

Ryanair serve Kaunas and Poznan year round from Liverpool, thus these additions being complementary to its existing network. The Liverpool - Paphos route is off sale after 27 October 2021 and is currently unclear if Ryanair are replacing this service with a Manchester - Paphos route, or if the flights will be complementary to each other.

With these new routes, Ryanair are forecast to serve 5.1 million annual passengers and serving 75 airports across 23 countries.

These 10 new routes vary from leisure, ski and visiting friends and relative markets - thus allowing Ryanair to have a versatile network for the upcoming winter, where travel demand is uncertain. The low frequencies give scope for increases if demand recovers whilst the serving untapped markets help to attract to a wider catchment and increase its offering.

With easyJet and Ryanair announcing new routes from across the United Kingdom for Winter 2021 - could anyone else be adding routes in the near future?