Ryanair has added three new routes from Liverpool airport for winter 2024.
The low fares airline will fly 24 routes, including winter sun and city break destinations, with Budapest, Marrakech and Paphos as new additions.
The frequency of existing routes to Kaunas, Košice, Krakow, Malaga, Sofia, and Wroclaw will also be increased, and there will be two return flights per week to and from Lapland Rovaniemi starting from October 27, 2024.
Other winter 2024 destinations include Lanzarote, Barcelona, Faro, Knock, Poznań, Shannon, Tenerife, Malaga, Madrid, Cork, Sofia, Warsaw, Alicante, Dublin, Malta and Goleniow.
Flights will operate using Ryanair’s four Liverpool-based aircraft, which the airline claims will represent a $400 million investment in the region and will support more than 1,550 jobs.
The airline has also called on the UK government to abolish APD (air passenger duty) for all travel, which it says would allow it to “deliver ambitious growth for the UK for the rest of the decade”.
Ryanair head of communications Jade Kirwan said: “As an island economy on the periphery of Europe, it is vital that Ryanair continues to grow low-cost air access to/from the UK, particularly for the regions where tourism growth is suffering the most from the Govt’s APD.
“This tax unfairly imposes £13 on all UK citizens/visitors, making air travel to/from the UK less competitive, particularly when other EU States, like Sweden, Poland, Croatia, and Italy, are lowering costs and cutting taxes to encourage rapid growth.
“If the UK Govt scraps APD on all flights, Ryanair will respond with rapid traffic growth for the rest of this decade, including 1,000 new jobs, 20 new UK based aircraft (additional $2 billion investment) and a 14% growth in UK traffic to 65 million passengers per year by 2030, just as we have done in Italy, where we added three new aircraft ($300 million investment) and over 20 new routes following the decision of regions, like Calabria, to scrap the Italian Municipal Tax, and more recently in Sweden, where we have added 2 new aircraft ($200 million investment), 10 new routes and 60 new jobs following the Government’s decision to abolish the Aviation Tax.”