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Ryanair expands Stansted schedule with Edinburgh route

Ryanair has added a new route from Stansted to Edinburgh, set to launch at the end of October.

The number of winter routes to and from Stansted now stands at 129, representing Ryanair’s largest-ever schedule from the London airport.

The budget carrier will operate the Stansted to Edinburgh route up to 14 times a week.


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Ryanair has also launched a time-limited mini-sale, with seats available from £19.99, for travel between November and the end of January 2023. Bookings must be made by Sunday, October 2.

Director of commercial, Jason McGuinness, said: “Ryanair offers over 2,000 weekly flights across 129 routes, connecting it to some of the biggest cities in Europe such as Edinburgh and Rome, giving our customers the choice of more destinations than ever before.”

He went on to call for the UK government to scrap aviation taxes for all flights, adding if it did not the UK would be “at risk of losing air traffic to competing European countries”.

“Ryanair has already demonstrated its willingness to respond to this and will launch eight new additional domestic services from April following the halving of the aviation tax on domestics,” he said.

Former chancellor Rishi Sunak halved taxes on domestic flights last year in the run up to Cop26.

The decision was followed by predictions that 400,000 extra domestic flights could be added to airlines’ UK schedules.


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