Eleven routes and 23,000 extra seats announced for Ireland West Airport's winter schedule

Ireland West Airport has launched its winter schedule with 88 weekly flights and a 7% increase in seat capacity. The winter schedule features over 400,000 seats across 11 routes, with an additional 23,000 extra seats added to the schedule compared to last winter. The airport expects to serve over 900,000 passengers this year.

This winter, Ryanair will operate flights to 10 destinations across the UK and Europe, adding over 20,000 extra seats to its flight schedule for the winter season compared to 2024, which includes increased frequency on several popular services. Aer Lingus will continue to operate daily flights on its hugely popular service to London Heathrow, which provides onward connectivity to over 80 international destinations worldwide through its codeshare partnership with the likes of British Airways, American Airlines, JetBlue, United, Iberia and Finnair.

Access to the UK market with Ryanair will remain strong this winter, with the airline operating flights to seven UK destinations, including Birmingham, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Liverpool, London (Luton & Stansted), and Manchester. In a further boost to its Liverpool service, Ryanair has introduced a second daily service on Fridays throughout the winter, as well as on Sundays and Mondays in February and March. Furthermore, Ryanair have also added extra capacity on its services to and from Birmingham, London Luton and Manchester for the forthcoming winter season.

For sun lovers, this winter holidaymakers can choose from twice weekly services to Malaga with weekly flights to the Canary Island hotspots of Lanzarote and Tenerife.

The airport’s, managing director, Joe Gilmore said that “on the back of our busiest summer season on record, we are pleased to see such a robust schedule of services available this winter with our airline partners Aer Lingus and Ryanair. With 88 weekly flights this winter and 18,000 weekly seats available on services to the UK and Europe, it promises to be a very busy winter season for the airport.”