4 NEW ROUTES (66 TOTAL) & INCREASED FREQUENCIES ON 20+ ROUTES

Ryanair, Malta’s No. 1 airline, today (15 Mar) announced its biggest ever schedule for Malta with 66 routes, incl. 4 new routes to exciting destinations like Baden, East Midlands, Memmingen, and Stockholm and increased frequencies on 20 other popular routes from/to capital cities.

Ryanair’s Malta Summer‘23 schedule will deliver:

– 6 based aircraft ($600M investment), incl. 4 Gamechangers

– 66 routes incl. 4 new routes to Baden, East Midlands, Memmingen, and Stockholm

– Increased frequencies on 20+ routes, incl. Barcelona, Ciampino, Catania, Milan, Valencia, and Vienna

– 470+ weekly flights (+26% growth vs S22)

– 3.5M passengers to/from Malta p.a.

– Supp. over 3,000 local jobs, incl. direct pilot, cabin crew & engineering jobs

This Summer Ryanair will operate over 470 weekly flights to/from Malta (26% growth on S22), supporting the recovery of inbound tourism to pre covid levels and offering its Malta citizens/visitors the widest choice and the lowest fares when booking their summer getaways. This unrivalled growth is underpinned by Ryanair’s $600M investment in Malta, with 6 based aircraft and support of over 3,000 local jobs. Malta’s island economy where tourism directly and indirectly generates over 30% of GDP*, is reliant on the support of airlines like Ryanair to sustain the industry.

Malta’s customers/visitors can now book one of Ryanair’s 4 new routes from just €29.99 for travel between Apr and Oct 2023 on www.Ryanair.com.

Malta Air CEO, David O’Brien said:

“As Malta’s no. 1 airline, Ryanair is pleased to announce its biggest ever Malta schedule for Summer’23, with 4 new routes from/to Baden, East Midlands, Memmingen and Stockholm, offering Malta’s citizens/visitors even more choice for their Summer holidays at the lowest fares in Europe. The introduction of new routes further demonstrates Ryanair’s commitment to support inbound tourism from key markets and offer the Maltese improved connectivity across Europe.

With this record 2023 schedule underpinned by Ryanair’s 6 based aircraft – a $600m investment in Malta and supporting over 3,000 local jobs including highly paid pilot, cabin crew & engineering jobs – Ryanair continues to deliver more growth and lower fares than any other airline in Malta and Europe.

To celebrate the launch of Ryanair’s Summer ‘23 schedule for Malta, we are launching a limited-time promo with fares from just €29.99 for travel between Apr and Sep ’23 on www.Ryanair.com.”

MTA CEO Carlo Micallef said:

 “Following a successful 2022 which saw tourism recover to 2.3 million arrivals in a year which had commenced facing the challenges and restrictions of the Omicron variant, we are looking forward to an even stronger recovery during 2023 which should get us very close to 2019 record results.  This positive attitude is underpinned by strong airline capacity increases both in terms of numbers of routes and in terms of frequencies. Ryanair and its Maltese subsidiary Malta Air are important contributors to this surge in airline connectivity and the announcement of their Summer 2023 schedule is testament to their faith in the regrowing of Malta’s important tourism industry.”