Ryanair expands into Israel
Ryanair has expanded into Israel, the thirty-first country in which the low-cost airline operates.
The company will operate three routes at Eilat Ovda airport, in the far south of the country near the border with Jordan. Those flights will go to and from Budapest in Hungary, Kaunas in Lithuania, and Krakow in Poland.
All three routes will open for business in the first week of November, and tickets can be booked from July 10.
The company estimates it will carry 40,000 passengers a year across the three routes, based on six weekly return flights.
Ryanair's Chief Commercial Officer, David O’Brien, said the company was continuing negotiations with the country's authorities, and hoped to expand its operations to and from Israel in the future.
