During the winter season of 2025–2026, from October 26th, 2025, to March 29th, 2026, the Irish low-cost airline Ryanair will increase its presence at L’Altet. Ryanair is the biggest airline in terms of passenger numbers and is based at Alicante-Elche Airport.
Ryanair will have eight more routes than it did last winter. This is because eight routes that were only available in the summer have been extended for the whole year. These routes go from Aberdeen to Cardiff in the UK to Bydgoszcz and Rzeszów in Poland, from Stockholm-Västerås to Växjö in Sweden to Lanzarote in Spain, and from Linz to Salzburg in Austria.
Ryanair will also strengthen its operations base at Alicante-Elche Airport by adding four more planes than it did last winter. This will bring the total number of planes based there to 16 between November and March. In the summer of 2025, when 18 planes are based at L’Altet every night, this number is only two less than that.
On Mondays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, all 16 planes will be in use. The rest of the week, between 12 and 14 planes will be in use. The plane that isn’t being used will either stay on standby or be used to train pilots by making trips to Murcia-Corvera, just like it was in the winter of 2024–2025.
Ryanair will connect Alicante-Elche Airport to 80 sites in 21 countries, which is six more routes than last winter.
Additionally, Ryanair will increase the number of frequencies on 45 of its Alicante-Elche lines during the winter of 2025–2026, but it will decrease operations on six other routes. On the other hand, two links will not be possible this winter compared to last: to Billund (Denmark) and Maastricht (Netherlands). This is because the airline has decided to stop using those airports because of “high airfares.”
The most notable growth is on the route to Belfast, which will have five more flights per week, as well as the connections with Brussels-Charleroi and Düsseldorf-Weeze, which will each have four more flights per week.
Ryanair will offer 19.6% more flights in November, which is the biggest month of the winter season. There will be 3,272 flights each month instead of 2,736 in November, which is more than 620,000 extra seats.
Up to 152 operations will happen every day on Friday, making it the busiest day of the week. Saturdays (142 operations) and Sundays (144 operations) will follow. On the other hand, Tuesdays (78 operations) and Wednesdays (76 operations) will have the least traffic, as is usual during the off-season.
The lines that connect Alicante to Brussels-Charleroi (18 flights per week), London-Stansted (19 flights per week), and Manchester (19 flights per week) will have the most flights. Compared to the winter of 2024–2025, Ryanair will add 71 new flights each week, which is an average of ten new flights each day.
Author: Derek Appleton
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