Budget travellers will no doubt be celebrating Ryanair’s announcement that it will soon be flying to Eilat – the first time the airline has run routes to Israel.
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The flights to Israel will operate from Budapest, Krakow and Kaunus to Eilat Ovda Airport, which is about 300km south of Jerusalem, and close to the borders of both Jordan and Egypt.
“Ryanair is pleased to announce our entry into the Israeli market from November 2015, our 31st country”, Ryanair Chief Commercial Officer David O’Brien says in a statement.
Those flights will go to and from Budapest in Hungary, Kaunas in Lithuania, and Krakow in Poland. “Eilat is a very unique tourist destination like Morocco and the Canary Islands and we are certain that we will fill the planes”.
Ryanair has announced it will expand into Israel later this year.
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Ryanair has been in talks to commence flights to Israel for several years after seeing the success of United Kingdom low-priced carrier EasyJet.
