2025 is set to be another bumper year at Kerry Airport with increased frequency on Ryanair routes to Spain and Portugal from April and with Chalair to France from June. Passengers can choose from five flights a week to Alicante in Spain in June, July and August with three flights a week in April, May, September and October. Ryanair flights to Costa Blanca will commence on Wednesday 2nd April, a day after the return of the twice-weekly route to Faro on Portugal’s Algarve which also runs to the end of October.
Chalair have announced the return of their popular weekly peak-summer routes to France from June to September serving Brest in Brittany, Caen in Normandy and Pau near the Pyrenees with the addition of a route to Brive in the Dordogne Valley.
The CEO of Kerry Airport, John Mulhern, said, “We are delighted to welcome the return of our summer sun destinations for 2025 and we thank Ryanair and Chalair for laying on these popular routes once again. The increase in frequency to Alicante and a fourth destination in France will coincide with the expected completion of the new Arrivals Hall and Departures Lounge in the summer. The development has been undertaken due to growing demand and to ensure that everyone who travels through Kerry Airport has a comfortable and positive experience.”
2024 was another record year for Kerry Airport with 417,409 passengers, the third highest passenger numbers in the airport’s history, for the year to the end of December. The summer sun routes saw an 11.2% increase on the previous year with 61,641 passengers travelling to Spain, Portugal and France. There was an increase of 3.8% on the Kerry to Dublin route with 114,447 passengers travelling between the Kingdom and Capital compared to 110,255 in 2023.
Reduced frequency to some of the UK routes and to Frankfurt Hahn in Germany resulted in decreases of 2.4% and 18.9% respectively in 2024. Last year 211,723 people travelled between Kerry and London Stansted, London Luton and Manchester, while 32,326 people flew to and from Frankfurt Hahn.
“Our mission, in fact, is to be the greatest little regional airport in the world,” said John Mulhern. Watch the full interview below.
