Low-cost carrier Ryanair has announced new routes from Prestwick airport but plans to reduce frequency or cancel flights on six existing routes.

The new winter timetable would provide new services to Alicante, Arrecife in Lanzarote, Las Palmas in Gran Canaria and Palma, with a new route to Ibiza in March.

The proposed changes will increase the number of passengers using Prestwick airport, but would limit the number of inbound visitors.

It is expected that an extra 100,000 passengers will use the airport, but inbound visitors would also drop by 100,000 each year.

Routes that have been culled include Prestwick to Frankfurt, Kracow and Stockholm, but the airline planes to increase frequency on flights to Faro, Malaga and Tenerife South.
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Director of new route development for Ryanair, Ken O’Toole said: “Ryanair is delighted to announce five new sun routes and increased frequencies on three routes to and from Glasgow Prestwick Airport, which will allow us to bring more low fares, more competition and choice to even more Scottish consumers and visitors.

“This expansion will now ensure the lowest fares to the sun for Scottish consumers compared to other high fare airlines.”

Ryanair last week announced a cut back in services at Stansted Airport, citing higher landing fees and air passenger duty.

The airline’s expansion is centred on Spanish mainland and islands, primarily due to Spain scrapping air passenger duty.

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