Ryanair announced its Summer 2025 schedule for East Midlands with 33 routes and extra frequencies on 12 popular summer holiday routes, such as Alicante, Faro, and Malaga, providing Ryanair’s UK customers with more choice and regular connections at the lowest fares in Europe. This exciting new Summer 2025 schedule is underpinned by Ryanair’s 6 East Midlands-based aircraft, which represent a local investment of $600M.

While Ryanair continues to grow UK traffic and tourism, regional connectivity and tourism is suffering under the new Labour Govt, which while “claiming” to champion growth, have bizarrely increased APD taxes on short-haul flights by £2 per passenger from 2026, damaging growth and making the UK uncompetitive. This APD tax hike further penalises ordinary UK families travelling abroad on holidays and deters millions of potential visitors to the UK, who will travel instead to countries like Sweden, Hungary, and Italy, who are abolishing aviation taxes or are reducing airport fees to stimulate growth. The anti-growth increase in UK APD is damaging tourism and economic growth in the UK regions, and Ryanair continues to call on Rachel Reeves to immediately abolish this APD tax – a move that would deliver immediate and much needed growth across the regions.