Ryanair this week has announced its Winter 2025 schedule for Belfast International Airport, with 13 routes, including winter sun hotspots like Alicante, Faro, Lanzarote, and Malaga with city break destinations like Budapest, Gdansk, Kaunas, and Krakow providing Ryanair’s Northern Ireland customers with more choice. Ryanair’s Winter 2025 schedule will largely operate on the airline’s 2 Belfast-based aircraft, representing a $200m investment, supporting over 1,000 local jobs, and driving year-round tourism to Northern Ireland.
Commenting at the announcement of the Winter schedule, Ryanair’s Director of Communications, Jade Kirwan, said, “Ryanair is pleased to launch our Belfast Winter 2025 schedule, with 13 routes to popular winter getaway destinations, like Alicante, Budapest, Faro, Gdansk, Krakow, Lanzarote, and Malaga, giving our customers in Northern Ireland even more choice at the lowest fares. We wish to continue to deliver traffic and tourism growth across our 22 UK airports, particularly on our 340 new Boeing aircraft, which will deliver over the next 8 years. To do this however, the UK market must become competitive. Rachel Reeves should stop talking about growth, and start delivering it by abolishing APD. In countries all over Europe (most notably Sweden, Hungary, Albania, and regional Italy). Governments are abolishing enviro taxes and are being rewarded with rapid traffic, tourism, and jobs growth. This is the model that Rachel Reeves should copy. She has failed to deliver any growth in the first 12 months of the new Labour Government, but she can reverse this failure, by scrapping APD to make UK air travel and tourism competitive once more, particularly in the UK regions.
Also commenting was the Belfast International Airport’s CEO, Dan Owens said, “Ryanair will offer local passengers greater choice and connectivity with fantastic routes on offer this winter. Today’s announcement that they will deliver 13 routes over the winter period is a testament to their commitment to the local market. The winter season will see increased capacity on key domestic routes to Manchester, Edinburgh, and London Stansted as well as more frequency to Alicante. We look forward to working with Ryanair to further grow their route network from Belfast and echo their call for the abolition of UK Air Passenger Duty which continues to hamper growth across the UK regions.”
