Ryanair has announced a fresh wave of expansion from its London bases, adding five new routes for the upcoming Winter 2025/6 schedule. The Irish low-cost carrier will launch a new service from London Luton to Wroclaw, alongside four new routes from London Stansted to Lübeck, Münster, Murcia, and Trapani.
With the additions, Ryanair now connects London Stansted to more European destinations than are served from Heathrow, underlining the carrier’s strategy to grow its footprint in London and across the wider UK market. Already the UK’s largest airline by passenger numbers, Ryanair expects to carry 60 million passengers across the UK network in 2025.
Looking further ahead, the airline has submitted a growth plan to the new Starmer government, targeting a 33% increase in UK traffic to 80 million passengers over the next five years with delivery of new 230 seat Boeing 737 MAX 10 aircraft . The expansion, Ryanair argues, hinges on policy changes, including the abolition of Air Passenger Duty (APD) and effective reform of air traffic control. The airline has been a vocal critic of the UK’s air navigation service provider, NATS, which it has described as “chronically mismanaged.”
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