Ryanair  today (8th Dec 09) announced that it will add four new Boeing 737-800 aircraft (12 in total) and open 6 new routes (57 in total) from its Charleroi base to Ibiza, Kaunas, Krakow, Nador, Seville and Zadar from March 2010. This brings Ryanair's investment in harleroi to twelve aircraft. 

These six new routes  will increase Ryanair's annual traffic at Charleroi to over 4 million passengers. The low cost airline confirmed that the Belgian Government's decision to reverse its "Flight Tax" has been a key driver of this record growth.

Ryanair's CEO, Michael O'Leary, was in Brussels today to announce the news himself. The CEO said that "Charleroi is now the model for how efficient low cost airports should operate and an example to the Irish and UK Governments which continue to preside over collapsing passenger traffic due to high cost airports and suicidal tourist taxes."

Many airline executives, travel agents and trade journalists continue to criticize Ryanair. True, the company has an agressive communication style. True, the company 

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