Ryanair announces winter routes from Girona to 9 destinations
Airline will fly to Beni Mellal, Eindhoven and Wroclaw but drops flights to Marrakesh, Belfast and Birmingham
Ryanair has announced its winter timetable from Girona-Costa Brava Airport, with 56 flights a week to nine destinations.
The number of flights is up 33% on last year, with the number of destinations remaining steady.
Six destinations are the same as last winter: Brussels Charleroi, Karlsruhe Baden-Baden, Kraków, Weeze Düsseldorf, Pisa and London Stansted.
From November, however, the low-cost airline will no longer fly to Marrakech, Belfast or Birmingham. On the contrary, it will offer flights to Beni Mellal (Morocco), Eindhoven (a route it previously offered) and Wrocław (where it began operating this February).
The Irish company's manager in Spain, Elena Cabrera, said that Ryanair is putting 250,000 tickets on sale this winter to and from Girona, and it aims to continue growing its business at the Costa Brava airport, with the goal of reaching 3 million passengers by 2030. Some 1.7 million passengers flew into or out of the airport last year.
Cabrera said that the increase in fees that Spanish airport management company Aena wants to apply to regional airports could affect growth. Ryanair, the Catalan government, Girona provincial council and the Chamber of Commerce are all calling on Aena to reconsider, Cabrera said.
The winter schedule runs from the last weekend of October until the end of March.