Ryanair has launched its winter schedule flying to and from Cornwall via four routes.

The budget airline flies out of Cornwall Airport Newquay all year round, but its routes vary depending on the season.

While the start of November sees the removal of Faro in Portugal, and Edinburgh in Scotland, from its schedule over the winter months, the airline will continue to offer two ‘sun hotspots’ and two city break locations.

For anyone wanting to get away for some Spanish winter sun there are flights out of Cornwall to both Alicante and Malaga.

Alternatively, for a city break or to catch a connecting flight, the airline will also continue to travel to London Stansted and Dublin in the Republic of Ireland.

Flights to and from Alicante are currently Monday, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, changing to Saturdays and Mondays from November, while flights in and out of Malaga are currently Wednesdays and Saturdays, changing to Fridays and Sundays from November.

London Stansted flights currently run on Tuesdays and Sundays, but will change to Fridays and Sundays during the winter, while Dublin flights will continue to run three times a week but change from the current Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays to Mondays, Fridays and Sundays.

The Faro route is due to return on March 30, 2025 while Edinburgh flights are currently expected to run again twice-weekly from June 3, 2025.

(Image: Ryanair) Ryanair’s head of communications, Jade Kirwan, said: “We are pleased to announce our Winter 2024 schedule for Cornwall with four exciting routes to Alicante, Dublin, London Stansted and Malaga, giving our customers in Cornwall and the surround areas even more choice at the lowest airfares in Europe.”

Nationally, Ryanair operates more than 640 routes to and from the UK, carrying more than 57 million passengers each year, and supporting 45,000 jobs.

However, the airline has called on the new Labour government to scrap the “unfair and unjustified” Air Passenger Duty (APD) tax, which was introduced in 1994 as a levy collected by airlines on passengers who start their journeys at UK airports.

Ryanair said this put UK tourism at a major disadvantage against EU competitors.

It claimed that abolishing APD would allow the airline to:

  • Grow traffic by 14 per cent to 65 million passengers per annum by 2030
  • Create 1,000 new jobs for UK pilots, cabin crew, and engineers by 2030
  • Open a new engineering training facility at Prestwick
  • Base 20 new Boeing MAX-10 aircraft (worth $2 billion) at UK airports, which it said would provide 20 per cent more seats, use 20 per cent less fuel and put out 50 per cent less noise.

Ms Kirwan added: “As an island economy on the periphery of Europe, it is vital that Ryanair continues to grow low-cost air access to/from the UK, particularly for the regions where tourism growth is suffering the most from the Govt’s APD.

“This tax unfairly imposes £13 on all UK citizens/visitors, making air travel to/from the UK less competitive, particularly when other EU States, like Sweden, Poland, Croatia, and Italy, are lowering costs and cutting taxes to encourage rapid growth.

“If the UK Government scraps APD on all flights, Ryanair will respond with rapid traffic growth for the rest of this decade, including 1,000 new jobs, 20 new UK based aircraft (additional $2bn investment) and a 14 per cent growth in UK traffic to 65m passengers per annum by 2030, just as we have done in Italy, where we added three new aircraft ($300m investment) and over 20 new routes following the decision of regions, like Calabria, to scrap the Italian Municipal Tax, and more recently in Sweden, where we have added two new aircraft ($200m investment), ten new routes and 60 new jobs following the Government’s decision to abolish the Aviation Tax.”