Passenger numbers at Moss Rygge Airport are on the up. Ryanair’s starting operations at Rygge this autumn has given the Østfold airport a huge boost. Traffic figures show an increase of 28,000 passengers in October alone, bringing the total number of passengers for this month to 72,000. This is an increase of 63% compared to September, when only 44,000 passengers travelled through the airport. It is now expected that Moss Rygge Airport will have had an annual traffic of around 600,000 passengers this year. And with Ryanair establishing its first Norwegian base at Rygge in March 2010, the airport is touted to become Norway’s fifth largest.