Ryanair launch summer schedule from Ireland West Airport
RYANAIR has launched its summer 2025 schedule at Ireland West Airport, with 17 routes to exciting holiday hotspots like Alicante, Faro, Lanzarote, Malaga and Tenerife, as well as increased frequencies on another seven popular routes.
To celebrate the launch, the airline has launched a limited-time seat sale with fares from just €24.99 available only at https://www.ryanair.com/ie/en.
Ryanair continues to invest and grow at regional Irish airports (+65% v pre-Covid), including at Ireland West Airport, where the airline has operated for over 38 years, carrying over 11 million passengers to date and driving invaluable inbound tourism on a year-round basis, as well as promoting important regional development through Ryanair’s support of almost 700 local jobs and supply of connectivity with Europe and its millions of holidaymakers.
In contrast, the company says this important regional development is being hindered by the government's Regional Airports Programme (RAP), which penalises regional airports for exceeding one million passenger per annum.
Ryanair has called on the new government to lift this unfair traffic cap on regional airports to three million passengers per annum in line with EU State Aid rules and allow Ireland’s regional airports to grow and flourish.
Ryanair’s head of comms, Jade Kirwan, said: “As Ireland’s No.1 airline, we are pleased to announce our summer 2025 schedule at Ireland West Airport Knock with 17 routes, including key business travel, city break and top summer destinations, such as Barcelona, Cologne, Lanzarote, Milan, Mallorca and Tenerife. We’ve also added extra flights on seven of our most popular routes, including Alicante, Birmingham, Faro, London and Malaga, giving our customers in the west and north-west even more choice and regular connections at the lowest fares in Europe.
“While Ryanair continues to deliver growth for Ireland’s regional airports, including at Ireland West Airport, Ireland’s regional airports are being hindered by the government’s Regional Airports Programme.
“We call on the new Irish government to enable airlines, like Ryanair, to continue to invest and grow at Ireland’s regional airports by expanding the scope for the 2026-2030 Regional Airports Programme to at least 3m passenger p.a., which would allow regional airports to grow traffic without being penalised for doing so.”
Managing director of Ireland West Airport, Joe Gilmore, said: “We are delighted to welcome the announcement of Ryanair’s biggest ever flight schedule from the airport for summer 2025. This summer will be the busiest one on record for the airport and the choice on offer for customers in the west, northwest and midlands regions has never been better, combined with the stress-free experience and convenience of using the airport, we hope these factors will entice new customers to the airport this summer and experience for themselves the benefits of flying from a regional airport like Ireland West.
“We thank Ryanair for their continued commitment to the airport and look forward to working with the team to grow their route network further from the airport in the future.”