The lowdown on autumn’s new routes

Despite the protests at Heathrow this year, despite the hassle that air travel has become, the long line ups at the airport, the increasingly restrictive security measures; despite the increase in the price of fuel and the many surcharges added to ticket prices, more people are traveling and airlines are traveling to more destinations than every before.

This year, Ryanair added six new destinations from Dublin and increased the frequency of flights on 12 routes. To raise the stakes, bmi unveiled a total of 17 new routes. EasyJet topped that easily with the addition of 25 new routes to destinations in Europe.

Ryanair’s new destinations from Dublin include: Basel, Budapest, Katowice, Nice, Prague and Szczecin.

Bmi’s new destinations from Heathrow include: Addis Ababa, Aleppo, Almaty, Amman, Ankara, Baku, Beirut, Bishkek, Cairo, Dakar, Damascus, Ekaterinburg, Freetown, Khartoum, Tbilisi, Tehran and Yerevan.

EasyJet now offers flights from Gatwick to: Gdansk, Bucharest, Sofia and Innsbruck. From Belfast, the airline now flies to: Gdansk, Prague, Venice and Barcelona. New flights from Birmingham include: Geneva and Grenoble. From Bournemouth EasyJet now flies to Krakow and Grenoble. New flights from Bristol fly to Gdansk, Lisbon, Funchal and Innsbruck. From East Midlands, EasyJet has new flights to Palma. Additionally, EasyJet now flies from Edinburgh to Gdansk and Krakow; from Glasgow to Paris; from Liverpool to Innsbruck and Lisbon; from Luton to Hamburg and Vienna; and from Stansted to Funchal.

www.ryanair.com