Ryanair have revealed their winter 2025 schedule from Belfast International featuring 13 routes including popular winter sun destinations and city breaks
The airline operates with two Belfast-based aircraft, representing a €200m investment
Over 1,000 local jobs are supported through this expansion, aiding the region’s tourism sector
Increased capacity includes key cross channel routes to Manchester, Edinburgh, and London Stansted.
Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary shared, “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 airports, particularly on our 340 new Boeing aircraft, which will deliver over the next eight years. To do this however, the 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.”
Dan Owens CEO of Belfast International Airport shared, “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 the Westminster government’s Air Passenger Duty which continues to hamper growth.”
