Ryanair Expects to Fly 120 Destinations from Dublin Airport this Summer

This year, Ryanair expects to fly 120 destinations from Dublin Airport, which will be its busiest summer schedule yet.

Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, France, and Croatia will be served by over 900 flights per week.

This summer, a 33rd aircraft will be deployed at the Irish hub, resulting in the creation of 30 additional jobs.

According to the carrier, the improved connectivity, which includes 22 additional routes compared to pre-pandemic summer 2019, will bring “much-needed” inbound tourists to Ireland.

Ryanair has asked the Irish government to extend a traffic recovery support scheme run by the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) into the winter of 2022-23 to help boost tourism following the summer peak.

Eddie Wilson, the CEO of the no-frills airline, said: “This extensive programme will see Ryanair operate over 900 weekly flights to over 120 destinations, giving inbound tourism a much-needed boost while also giving Irish consumers the widest choice of great destinations this summer.

“After two years of stop\start ineffective travel restrictions, the DAA have finally been given the tools to incentivise travel with its traffic recovery support scheme.

“This scheme gives Ryanair the confidence to invest in our largest ever summer schedule and largest number of based aircraft at Dublin airport.

The DAA scheme will ensure airport charges are competitively priced verses other EU countries this summer.

“With many airlines cutting routes and jobs, it is important that Ireland’s airport charges remain competitive verses other EU countries and regions so that this investment can be maintained in this period of recovery and it is vital that this traffic recovery scheme is extended into winter ’22/23 to keep that investment and connectivity in Ireland.”

DAA chief executive Dalton Philips said: “Government funding announced in Budget 2022 has allowed DAA to offer additional attractive incentives to our airline partners to rebuild international connectivity from Dublin airport and this investment by Ryanair for the busy summer season ahead is testament to that.”