Kerry Airport has revealed details of increased frequency on Ryanair routes to Spain and Portugal from April and with Chalair to France from June.
Passengers can choose from five flights a week to Alicante in Spain in June, July and August with three flights a week in April, May, September and October.
Ryanair flights to Costa Blanca sunshine will commence on Wednesday, April 2, a day after the return of the twice-weekly route to Faro on Portugal’s Algarve which also runs to the end of October.
Chalair has announced the return of its popular weekly peak-summer routes to France from June to September serving Brest in Brittany, Caen in Normandy and Pau near the Pyrenees with the addition of a route to Brive in the stunning Dordogne Valley.
CEO of Kerry Airport, John Mulhern, said he is delighted to welcome the return of the summer sun destinations for 2025 and he thanked Ryanair and Chalair for laying on these popular routes once again.
“The increase in frequency to Alicante and a fourth destination in France will coincide with the expected completion of the new arrivals hall and departures lounge in the summer,” he said.
“The development has been undertaken due to growing demand and to ensure that everyone who travels through Kerry Airport has a comfortable and positive experience.”
2024 was another record year for Kerry Airport with 417,409 passengers, the third highest number in the airport’s history, for the year to the end of December.
The summer sun routes saw an 11.2 per cent increase on the previous year with 61,641 passengers travelling to Spain, Portugal and France.
There was an increase of 3.8 per cent on the Kerry to Dublin route with 114,447 passengers travelling between the Kingdom and Capital compared to 110,255 in 2023.
Reduced frequency to some of the UK routes and to Frankfurt Hahn in Germany resulted in decreases of 2.4 per cent and 18.9 per cent respectively in 2024.
Last year 211,723 people travelled between Kerry and London Stansted, London Luton and Manchester, while 32,326 people flew to and from Frankfurt Hahn.
Looking ahead into the Spring of 2025, passengers will enjoy a choice of 11 destinations from Kerry serving Dublin, London (Luton and Stansted), Manchester, Frankfurt Hahn, Alicante, Faro, Brive, Brest, Caen and Pau.
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