Low-cost airline Ryanair is planning a large-scale comeback at Klagenfurt Airport in Austria for the 2022/23 winter flight schedule. The carrier wants to include several routes from this airport.

In the future, you want to head for the smallest Austrian commercial airport all year round. Several destinations, which the low-cost airline wants to present on May 3, 2022, will start. With regard to the goals, they are still reserved and refer to the upcoming press conference.

In any case, Ryanair wants to head for Klagenfurt in the long term and gradually expand the range of routes. However, there are currently no plans for a base in Carinthia. The planes will fly into the provincial capital of Carinthia from other airports. It can be heard that the offer will be more comprehensive than around 2005. At that time, the Irish had a few destinations in their route network from Klagenfurt. However, they later withdrew and accused the airport of an “outrageous increase in fees”. The prices were not increased, but a controversial subsidy program has expired.

For a short time, Ryanair was again active from Klagenfurt Airport in the 2020 summer flight schedule. The destination Palma de Mallorca was served, but the route became one after a few rounds. The background at the time was that the entry requirements for Austria were tightened at short notice and PCR tests were not yet easily accessible and ideally free of charge. Demand collapsed to almost zero.