Ryanair has decided to cancel the regular flights that connect Zaragoza with Vienna and Lisbon from the end of March and recover the Bologna flight again, which will thus add to the announced relaunch of the Santiago de Compostela flight. These are the main changes that the low-cost Irish airline will make in Zaragoza in the upcoming summer season and which, as is tradition in aviation, will last until the end of October.
Despite the adjustments in its programming, the Aragonese will have the same number of national and international Ryanair connections, nine. Both the Santiago de Compostela and Bologna routes will take off on March 27 with two weekly frequencies and will replace those in Vienna and Lisbon, which will stop operating a few hours in advance, on the 24th and 25th, respectively.
The measure is not justified by the lack of demand in the area of influence of the airport, since both flights exceeded in November, the last month for which there are official data, the company’s average occupancy rate in Zaragoza, located at 80 7% of the passengers of their planes. In the case of Lisbon, it reached 83.5% and that of Vienna reached 85%, only surpassed by those of Marrakech (85.4%) and Milan (87.2%).
The suppression of the Bologna flight has finally been short-lived, since the last plane covered the connection on October 27 and will do so again five months later. With the new season, it will connect on Mondays and Fridays and places can already be reserved, as in the eight remaining routes, until the end of October. Then it will be revealed if this connection is only for summer and disappears from the schedule again or is maintained for autumn-winter, since the airline does not provide information and changes must be known through its ticket reservation website.
The low-cost airline has decided to resume the Galician flight almost two and a half years after it launched it ephemerally in August 2020, since with the outbreaks of the pandemic it was suspended without a recovery date until a few weeks ago. Now it will operate two days, Mondays and Saturdays.
These two routes will be added to the recent addition of the Venice route, which began operating last December with two other weekly frequencies without the need for regional subsidies. The rest of the programming will be maintained, so the Aragonese will be able to continue flying to Brussels, Paris, Milan, Morocco, London and Palma de Mallorca.
The insular connection will be greatly strengthened to meet the summer demand peak. If Ryanair now flies on Tuesdays and Saturdays, from March 26 it will also fly on Sundays and between June and August it will offer five frequencies to later return to four until the end of the season.
Air Europa Leaves Zaragoza
This bet is more than justified because part of its competition has given up. Tickets can no longer be booked on the Air Europa website, so Zaragoza is left without the leading airline, specialized in this destination.
However, travelers can continue to fly on board Vueling planes, with which you can currently connect three times a week with Palma. The Spanish airline will offer a third frequency in March and five from April to October.
In the same way, it will continue to fly regularly to Tenerife, it will resume the Lanzarote connection on Sundays between June 18 and October 22 and it will charter seven departures to Gran Canaria until March. The Paris route remains on the web, although there is no day set on the 2023 calendar.
Its Canary ‘puncture’ is more than supplied by Binter, which as a local company invariably offers two routes with Tenerife and Gran Canaria with four monthly frequencies.
The regular programming is completed by the Hungarian airline Wizz Air, which remains faithful to its offer with Romania. It flies to its capital, Bucharest, and to another of the country’s large cities, Cluj Napoca, taking advantage of the demand of emigrants.
This article is originally published on heraldo.es
