Ryanair has launched its winter schedule from Belfast with 13 routes, including a new service to Kaunas.
It will operate four flights a week to Lithuania’s second largest city, starting on 27 October.
Ryanair has also added extra flights to Alicante, Krakow and London from Belfast for the winter, when it will have two aircraft based on the Northern Ireland airport.
It said it has shifted more than 50,000 seats from Dublin to Belfast, including flights for key sporting fixtures, school holidays and Christmas, blaming a 32-million-passenger cap at the southern Ireland airport for the move.
Chief Marketing Office Dara Brady said: “Since reopening Ryanair’s base in 2023, we have grown and invested heavily in the region with 2x based aircraft ($200m investment) and support of over 850 local jobs, as well as driving important inbound tourism year-round.
“Through our ongoing investment, we have grown our Belfast operation by +64% vs. pre-COVID levels, and we will continue to grow at Belfast, have recently switched over 50,000 winter seats from Dublin due to the 2007 traffic cap rendering Dublin Airport closed for business.”
