The Irish low-cost airline Ryanair expects that there will be high demand for Greece in the summer of 2021. The Chania base, which was closed in 2018, will be reactivated. At the same time, the lowcoster announces the stationing of aircraft on Corfu and Rhodes. For the time being, all three island bases are to be operated seasonally between July and October 2021.

A total of 46 new routes will be added from the three airports mentioned. It also includes some additional destinations in Germany. Two Boeing 737-800s are to be stationed in Kerkyra (Corfu). With these 18 new routes (Aarhus, Copenhagen, Weeze, Münster / Osnabrück, Wroclaw, Krakow, Nuremberg, Karlsruhe / Baden-Baden, Milan-Malpensa, Verona, Marseilles, Barceolna, Odessa, Subiu, Santorini, Heraklion, Paphos and Tel Aviv) become both.

From Rhodes a Boeing 737-800 will fly to Dublin, Birmingham, Warsaw-Modlin, Memmingen, Venice Treviso, Suceava, Marseilles, Barcelona, ​​Brindisi, Thessaloniki, Heraklion, Paphos and Tel Aviv. A machine of this type is also planned for Chania. This will serve Newcastle, Leeds / Bradford, Billund, Bremen, Berlin-Brandenburg, Cologne / Bonn, Kiev-Borispil, Budapest, Venice-Treviso, Bologna, Rome-Ciampino, Bari, Mykonos, Luqa (Malta) and Tel Aviv .

The first Boeing 737-Max-200 machine is expected by CEO Michael O'Leary in April 2021. Once approved, it will initially be used from the United Kingdom. Carrier 2021 B16-Max-737 will be received by summer 200. These are used by Ryanair, Ryanair UK, Buzz and Malta Air. Those of the last two group members mentioned each have their own livery.