SCOTLAND will be the focus of Ryanair’s planned “strong growth” in the UK over the next four years, chief executive Michael O’Leary said today as he announced a new Glasgow-Berlin route and more flights between the city and Stansted.

He is expected to reveal similar expansion from Edinburgh later today.

The Berlin Schönefeld route from September – Ryanair’s tenth from Glasgow – will initially operate five times a week but Mr O’Leary expects it will soon go daily.

The Berlin route will see Ryanair competing directly with arch-rival EasyJet, which flies to the same airport. It will coincide with a fourth daily return flight on the Glasgow to Stansted route, which was launched last October.

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