Ryanair has expanded its summer 2023 schedule from Stansted with the addition of six routes.
New destinations include Asturias, Belfast, Cornwall (Newquay), Edinburgh, Klagenfurt and Leipzig.
The airline will operate twice daily flights to Belfast, three times daily flights to Edinburgh, twice a week to Klagenfurt, and three times a week to the other new destinations.
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The additional routes bring the airline’s total operation for summer 2023 to 180 destinations from Stansted, Gatwick and Luton airports.
Ryanair said it will operate 3,000 weekly flights, an increase of 10% compared to summer 2022, for its London airports.
Chief executive Michael O’Leary said: “Our schedule has grown 10% on last summer, with 3,000 weekly flights scheduled across more than 180 routes, including six new sunshine destinations and increased frequencies on 30 other popular routes like Berlin, Malaga, Majorca, Nantes and Palma.”
O’Leary went on to urge the government to scrap air passenger duty (APD), saying a 50% cut on domestic routes from April will not go far enough to “drive traffic and tourism recovery from the UK”.
“While the halving of APD on domestic flights from April 2023 has allowed Ryanair to add more domestic routes to our UK schedule for summer 2023, if we are to continue to grow and drive traffic and tourism recovery from the UK, prime minister Sunak should immediately scrap APD for all travel and provide incentives for airlines like Ryanair to stimulate growth and recovery for the UK, including London,” he said.