Low-cost airline Ryanair is studying the possibility of entering the Cape Verdean market. The Irish company opened its new northern Portugal headquarters in the city of Porto this week, and has already announced its plans to be a strong competitor of TAP Air Portugal in flight routes to Cape Verde.

The airline does not serve meals on board, flight dates may not be changed, and on some flights restrooms cannot even be used. This is the philosophy of low-cost airlines, which try to reduce expenditures to a minimum in order to give clients a flight at the third of the price charged by other airlines.

Currently, according to a recently-published study from the Center for Asia Pacific Aviation, Ryanair is one of the largest low-cost airlines operating in Portugal, and, together with fellow low-cost company eastJet, has a combined market share of 21%. The slice of the market is only comparable to TAP’s 37%, Iberia’s 3% abd Lufthansa’s 2%. Ryanair, which alone holds 7% of Portugal’s international flight market, has 23 routes flying from Porto and 13 from Faro.

The company now wants to attack TAP on domestic flights and connections to Portugal’s former colonies. At the moment, the most enticing of these is Cape Verde, located just three and a half hours by air from Portugal, says the Center for Asia Pacific Aviation.

“Ryanair is analyzing the possibility of an operation between Porto and Cape Verde. In doing so, it will break TAP’s domination of flights to the ex-colonies, most of which it has a monopoly on, or a duopoly with the country’s state airline,” according to the Center.

If this is true, Ryanair’s entrance into the Cape Verdean market could end up helping drastically reduce the prices practiced by TACV Cabo Verde Airlines and TAP.