Ryanair has announced its largest-ever summer schedule from Dublin Airport, with 120 destinations and over 900 weekly flights available for its Irish customers this summer.
This record-breaking schedule includes fantastic sun getaways to Spain, Portugal and Italy, including Sardinia and Sicily, as well as exciting destinations in the Greek islands, Croatia, and regional France.
Ryanair will also increase its investment with the basing of a 33rd aircraft at Dublin Airport this summer, representing a further $100m investment and bringing its total investment at Dublin Airport to $3.3bn. Ryanair also confirmed today that it will create 30 direct jobs as a result of this additional aircraft based in Dublin.
Ryanair DAC’s CEO, Eddie Wilson, said: “We are pleased to announce our largest ever flight schedule at Dublin Airport this summer. This extensive programme will see Ryanair operate over 900 weekly flights to over 120 destinations, giving inbound tourism a much-needed boost while also giving Irish consumers the widest choice of great destinations.
“After two years of stop-start ineffective travel restrictions, the DAA has finally been given the tools to incentivise travel with its Traffic Recovery Support Scheme (TRSS), which was recommended by the Aviation Task Force to the government in their report of July 2020. This scheme gives Ryanair the confidence to invest in our largest ever summer schedule and the largest number of based aircraft at Dublin Airport.
“The DAA’s TRSS scheme will ensure airport charges are competitively priced versus other EU countries this summer, and Ryanair has responded by launching its largest ever investment in aircraft, connections, and jobs at Dublin Airport.
“With many airlines cutting routes and jobs, it is important that Ireland’s airport charges remain competitive versus other EU countries and regions so that this investment can be maintained in this period of recovery and it is vital that this Traffic Recovery Scheme is extended into winter ’22/23 to keep that investment and connectivity in Ireland.”
DAA’s CEO, Dalton Philips, said: “Government funding announced in Budget 2022 has allowed DAA to offer additional attractive incentives to our airline partners to rebuild international connectivity from Dublin Airport and this investment by Ryanair for the busy summer season ahead is testament to that.”
