Ryanair has announced a list of new flight routes and destinations ahead of the summer 2025 travel season, some of which have not been serviced by the airline in over a decade
The Irish airline Ryanair has been implementing major shakeups this travel year. From updating its boarding pass rules, axing check-in desks to cutting flight routes to France, Spain, Italy, Denmark and Germany as a direct result of new aviation taxes across Europe.
Ryanair has already announced significant seat reduction ahead of the summer season. The budget airline will reduce capacity on 12 flight routes to and from Spain, decreasing its seat offerings by 80,000 compared to the previous year. But it’s not all bad news. Ryanair will also be introducing quite a few new destinations to its summer flight roster.
AeroRoutes, which reports on worldwide airline network changes, has released a summary report detailing all the planned network additions for the summer 2025 season. The list even includes flights from the UK to destinations that have not been serviced by Ryanair in over a decade.
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In January, Ryanair announced seven new routes from London Stansted for the summer, including the following destinations:
- Reggio Calabria, Italy – from March 19
- Bodrum, Turkey – from March 19
- Linz, Austria – from March 24
- Clermont-Ferrand, France – from April 20
- Munster, Germany – from May 20
- Dalaman, Turkey – from June 2.
Fares for these journeys start at £14.99, according to Ryanair’s official website, excluding London to Dalaman, which start at £33.69. Flights from London Stansted to Lubeck, Germany are expected to begin from April 1, however tickets are not yet available for booking.
To support this traffic growth, Ryanair will base 1 new Boeing 737 aircraft in London Stansted (an additional $100m investment in London) and create 30 new jobs for pilots, cabin crews and engineers. In a press release announcing the new flights, Ryanair CEO, Michael O’Leary, expressed excitement for other new London routes: “We are also launching extra frequencies on 30 other London routes to exciting destinations like Gdansk, Ibiza, Malaga, and Rome.”
According to Aeroroutes, the carrier is also reinstating some routes that it has not served for more than a decade. Ryanair will fly from Bournemouth to both Chania and Rhodes in Greece in June, and to Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands in April. These three routes have been absent from Ryanair’s offering since 2014 but will soon operate twice weekly.
Manchester locals will be excited by the two new routes arriving at the end of March too, with twice-weekly flights to both Morocco’s capital Rabat and Toulouse in the south of France. Twice-weekly flights to Toulouse will also commence from Bristol Airport as of May 3.
A new route from Edinburgh to Funchal in Portugal will launch on March 30. In addition to a twice-weekly flight from Glasgow to Malta on April 25. While the new routes are promising, CEO O’Leary says that growth could be better, if not for the government’s high ADP taxes.
In the same press release announcing the new flights, O’Leary blamed the new Labour Government for curbing the airline’s growth. According to the CEO: “Ryanair could be growing more rapidly to/from the UK, but Rachel Reeves bizarre decision to raise APD taxes by £2 per passenger damages the growth prospects of the UK, and in particular regional UK airports.”
