RYANAIR have announced another new route from Dublin - to Riga, Latvia. The new route will begin operating on January 9.
The announcement of the new service was made on the day that airline chief Michael O¹Leary forecast that Ryanair would eventually offer free flights to all its passengers - as a result of proceeds from in-flight gambling.
The claim came from the Irish no-frills airline's Chief Executive Michael O'Leary as he unveiled plans to offer the use of mobile telephones on board
flights by next spring.
He sees gambling via mobile phones or airline-provided equipment as producing as much as £170 million in revenue at virtually no cost, according
the The Guardian.
Ryanair also predicts that it will soon offer on-line bookers the chance to avoid check-in at the airport altogether - if they have only cabin baggage.
Passengers could soon be able to print out their boarding passes as they make their bookings on the airline's website.
Meanwhile, Ryanair boss O'Leary suggested that the success of in-flight gaming and services such as insurance and car hire could make flights free
within four to five years.
"Entertainment is where the real money will be made in the future," he said in an interview in the Guardian.
The airline also unveiled plans to give away two million free seats by November 10 to mark strong punctuality figures.