Ryanair announces new routes from Budapest

Ryanair released its full winter schedule from Budapest, which includes several surprises.

The Irish budget airline announced earlier this year that it will launch two new routes from Budapest to two Portuguese cities – Lisbon and Porto – in addition to two Southern French destinations, namely Bordeaux and Toulouse.

Now they have announced numerous new ones: Luxembourg, Gothenburg in Sweden, Poznan in Poland, Catania in Italy’s Sicily, Tel-Aviv in Israel and Finland’s Lappeenranta. The latter is especially interesting as few have probably heard of the small Finnish town with only 70,000 inhabitants.

Located in the southeast of the country, Lappeenranta is just 26 kilometres from the Russian border and just 200 kilometres from St. Petersburg. There is a scheduled bus service between the Finnish town and the Russian metropolis, which visitors can take relatively cheaply; tickets cost €18 each way at the time of writing and the journey takes just under 4 hours. Ryanair does not fly to Russia, meaning this is the closest it can get to the country without actually landing in Russian territory.

Ryanair have also announced new routes in its winter schedule, such as Bari and Cagliari in Italy, Cork in Ireland, Seville in Spain and Greece’s Thessaloniki. These Ryanair routes will already start operating this summer.