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Ryanair will add 8 new routes to and from France as part of an expanded French schedule for summer 2020. The LCC is adding 35 new summer routes, including 27 new summer services and 8 routes connecting Marseille to Alghero (Italy), Nantes to Brussels Charleroi, and Toulouse to Palma (Spain). Ryanair first unveiled plans to base aircraft in France in early 2018, saying at the time that within 3-4 years it could reasonably expect to double its traffic in France, adding 10m passengers with 30 aircraft spread across around 4 bases. The airline has bases in Marseille, Bordeaux and Toulouse as of winter 2019. “With 233 routes in total, this summer schedule will deliver 12.7m customers per annum and support 9,525 jobs across its 28 French airports, as Ryanair grows by 9% in France,” the airline said. <br/>

Airbus has sold 10 A321neo aircraft to Chilean budget carrier Sky Airline, 2 industry sources said. The scope of the deal was included in a monthly Airbus order tally last week but the name of the customer was not disclosed. Such a deal would be worth US$1.3b at the most recently published 2018 list prices or about half that after typical discounts. Airbus stopped publishing list values this year. Sky Airline declined comment. Sky Airline was founded in Chile in the early 2000s by Jurgen Paulmann. After he died in 2014, its leadership was passed to his son, Holger Paulmann, who transformed the carrier into an ultra-low cost player. Sky Airline already operates a fleet of 23 leased A320-family aircraft. <br/>