Ryanair launches 7 new routes from the UK to France, Turkey and more destinations starting this summer
Ryanair has announced a major expansion of its London operations for summer 2025, adding seven new routes from Stansted Airport and increasing frequencies across 30 existing destinations.
The airline’s growth plans include new services to destinations across Europe and Turkey, whilst boosting flight numbers to popular locations including Gdansk, Ibiza, Malaga and Rome.
The expansion will see Ryanair base an additional Boeing 737 aircraft at Stansted, representing a £78.5million investment in London operations.
This brings Ryanair’s total London-based fleet to 56 aircraft, with a combined investment value of £4.4billion.
The new routes will connect London Stansted with Bodrum, Clermont-Ferrand, Dalaman, Münster, Lübeck, Linz and Reggio Calabria.
The growth will create 30 new highly paid jobs for pilots, cabin crew and engineers at the Essex airport.
Increased frequencies will be added to existing routes including popular destinations like Milan, Turin and Valencia.
The expansion marks a significant boost to Ryanair’s London network, which will operate 206 routes during summer 2025.
Popular Mediterranean destinations feature prominently in the frequency increases, with additional flights to Ibiza and Malaga.
The new Turkish routes to Bodrum and Dalaman expand Ryanair’s presence in the eastern Mediterranean market. German cities also feature heavily in the expansion, with new services to both Münster and Lübeck.
The Austrian city of Linz, French destination Clermont-Ferrand, and Italian city Reggio Calabria complete the roster of new routes from Stansted.
Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary has praised the new routes and criticised a planned £2 increase in APD on short-haul flights from 2026.
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He said: “We are pleased to announce seven new summer 2025 routes from London to Bodrum, Clermont-Ferrand, Dalaman, Münster, Lübeck, Linz, and Reggio Calabria. We are also launching extra frequencies on 30 other London routes to exciting destinations like Gdansk, Ibiza, Malaga, and Rome.
“Ryanair could be growing more rapidly to/from the UK, but Rachel Reeves’s bizarre decision to raise APD taxes by £2 per passenger damages the growth prospects of the UK, and in particular regional UK airports.
“She is trying to distract people by floating a 3rd runway at Heathrow (or a 2nd at Gatwick), which even if approved, won’t arrive for 10 or 20 years, long after the life of this Labour Government.
“If she is serious about delivering growth, then she should abolish the penal and damaging APD tax, which makes the UK uncompetitive when EU countries like Sweden, Hungary, Ireland, and regions in Italy are abolishing aviation taxes, and winning dramatic traffic, tourism, and jobs growth from the UK.”