RYANAIR today (October 3) announced its Winter 2024 schedule for Bristol, with 30 routes including five exciting new winter sun and city break routes.

The new destinations are Copenhagen, Fuerteventura, Marrakesh, Prague, and Tirana.

Ryanair operates over 640 routes to/from the UK, carrying over 57m passengers p.a. on its fleet of 117 UK-based aircraft ($12bn investment).

Meanwhile, Ryanair is also calling on the new UK Govt to abolish APD for all travel.

Ryanair’s head of communications, Jade Kirwan said: “We are pleased to announce our Winter 2024 schedule for Bristol, which includes five exciting new routes to Copenhagen, Fuerteventura, Marrakesh, Prague, and Tirana, giving customers in the South-West even more choice at the lowest airfares in Europe.

“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 Govt 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 p.a. by 2030.

"Just as we have done in Italy, where we added 3 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), 10 new routes and 60 new jobs following the Govt’s decision to abolish the Aviation Tax.”