Ryanair Unveils Initial Winter Schedule

Ryanair is Scotland’s largest airline in terms of based aircraft and consistently battles with easyJet for the most destinations served.

In the last week Ryanair has uploaded its initial Winter 2025 schedule to its app and website, with a number of changes across the four airports they operate from in Scotland. From airports gaining service during winter once again, to destinations losing winter service as well as gaining winter schedules, it is shaping up to be the airlines largest winter timetable.

A breakdown of the changes for each airport is available below;

Aberdeen Airport

Ryanair will once again resume winter operations from Aberdeen, having suspended them for W24/25. The airline will convert two routes from summer seasonal to year-round and will operate 5 flights per week.

Services to Alicante will operate 3x per week and will depart every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

Services to Krakow will operate 2x per week and will depart every Wednesday and Saturday, however, unlike the summer flying programme, flights will move from the morning to the evening.

Edinburgh Airport

Edinburgh will remain Ryanair’s largest airport in Scotland, with 11 based aircraft flying to 44 destinations across 19 countries.

The airline has also announced a new service to Rzeszow in Poland operating 2x week this winter, making this the airlines 6th destination in the country (although Warsaw is not served during Winter at the time of writing).

As with previous years, Ryanair has made a number of alterations to its winter schedule, with some routes seeing extended or reduced seasonality, as well as increases or decreases in weekly flights. A full summary of changes can be found below;

• Beauvais – decreases from 6 to 2 weekly
• Berlin – increases from 6 to 7 weekly
• Brussels Charleroi – increases from 6 to 9 weekly
• Budapest – increases from 4 to 6 weekly
• Copenhagen – increases from 5 to 6 weekly
• Cork – increases from 8 to 10 weekly
• Dublin – increases from 27 to 29 weekly
• Gdansk – increases from 3 to 4 weekly
• Kaunas – decreases from 4 to 3 weekly
• Knock – decreases from 3 to 2 weekly
• Krakow – increases from 5 to 6 weekly
• Stansted – increases from 21 to 23 weekly
• Madrid – increases from 5 to 7 weekly
• Malaga – increases from 5 to 7 weekly
• Malta – increases from 3 to 5 weekly
• Milan Bergamo – increases from 6 to 8 weekly
• Porto – increases from 2 to 3 weekly
• Poznan – increases from 4 to 6 weekly
• Riga – decreases from 3 to 2 weekly
• Rome Ciampino – increases from 6 to 8 weekly
• Shannon – increases from 3 to 4 weekly
• Sofia – decreases from 3 to 2 weekly
• Venice – increases from 2 to 3 weekly
• Vienna – increases from 4 to 5 weekly
• Wroclaw – increases from 3 to 4 weekly

The airline has also converted Valencia from summer only to year round. Additionally the airline will no longer fly to Eindhoven or Hamburg.

Perhaps least surprising of these increases is Budapest, with both Budapest and Edinburgh now being part of the Vinci Airport network, and WIZZ Air ending its Glasgow service it appears Ryanair is banking on the sudden drop in capacity from Scotland – however, these additional two flights do not provide an equal replacement in capacity thanks to the significantly higher capacity of WIZZ’s A321’s

Glasgow Airport

Ryanair continues, unusually, to grow from Glasgow Airport, with the airline serving 6 destinations across 4 countries, an increase of 1 for each category on last year. Ryanair has also added flights on some existing routes to further boost capacity.

The airline will make the following changes to its Glasgow network for Winter 25/26;

• Alicante will increase from 2 to 3 weekly
• Dublin will increase from 20 to 22 weekly
• Krakow will increase from 2 to 4 weekly
• Malta will operate 2x week.

At the time of writing Brussels Charleroi will remain the airlines only seasonal destination from Glasgow Airport.

Prestwick Airport

Based on the initial schedule, Prestwick Airport will not see any new routes, but rather expansion on some of its existing routes. The airline will serve 4 destinations, all of which are in Spain, with a reduction in one destination when compared to Winter 2024.

The airline will not, based on current schedules operate flights to Barcelona during the winter, and will continue to operate the following routes;

• Alicante will increase from 4 to 5 weekly
• Lanzarote will remain at 3 weekly
• Malaga will remain at 3 weekly
• Tenerife will increase from 5 to 6 weekly

Credit

I would like to thank “Aidan76_” on X for highlighting all the Edinburgh changes and also to “awwdabaaby” for some of the Glasgow changes.