RYANAIR has today announced its twenty-fourth European base in Bournemouth.

From April, Ryanair will base one $70m Boeing 737-800 aircraft which will serve five new routes - to Malaga, Murcia, Nantes, Palma and Wroclaw - operating alongside Ryanair's seven existing routes from Bournemouth - to Alicante, Barcelona, Dublin, Glasgow, Marseille, Milan and Pisa.