Ryanair opens new routes for the summer
The Irish airline announced two routes from Faro to Madrid and Valencia (Spain), one from Porto to Bergerac (France) and another from Ponta Delgada to Nuremberg (Germany).
Ryanair will open four new routes from Portugal this summer, bringing the airline’s number of routes in the country to 147, it announced on Tuesday.
The Irish airline announced two routes from Faro to Madrid and Valencia (Spain), one from Porto to Bergerac (France) and another from Ponta Delgada to Nuremberg (Germany).
These connections will operate until October.
The announcement comes a week after Ryanair announced its intention to reduce its fleet at Lisbon airport in the summer, “as the Portuguese government has not acted” to free up TAP’s slots, so it would cancel 19 routes from Lisbon this summer.
The low-cost airline has twice appealed to Prime Minister António Costa to release slots unused by TAP by 4 March, indicating that it would have to cancel routes if this did not happen.
“Our latest efforts to ask the prime minister for help resulted in a total of zero responses,” reads the statement sent out on Tuesday.
However, Ryanair said the three aircraft and the 19 lost routes would return to Lisbon in October 2022 for the winter schedule, “as it has sufficient slots in the winter” for those flights.
