This winter the airline will add five new routes from London, with services from Luton to Wroclaw, and four new routes from Stansted to Lübeck, Münster, Murcia and Trapani. Ryanair now connects Stansted with more European destinations than are served from Heathrow, and at a fraction of the high fares being charged by Heathrow airlines.

Ryanair continues to grow its traffic in London, and across the UK generally. With expected 60 million passengers this year, the airline is now hailed as one of the UK’s largest passenger airlines. Ryanair has submitted exciting plans to the Starmer government to grow traffic by 33 percent to 80 million over the next five years, if the government abolishes its damaging APD taxes and delivers effective reform of ATC, including the UK’s chronically mismanaged ATC (NATS) service.

Michael O’Leary, CEO, Ryanair, said, “Ryanair continues to invest heavily in growth in the UK. We have now overtaken EasyJet and BA, to become the UK’s No. 1 passenger airline, with 60 million pax in 2025. 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 eight years. To do this however, the UK market must become competitive.(…)”