Ryanair announces new connection from Athens to Aqaba in Jordan

Ryanair, Europe’s biggest low-cost airline, announced a new connection from Athens to Aqaba in Jordan.

The connection will take place at a frequency of two weekly flights for the winter schedule of 2018, which will start in October.

The new Athens route will be available for sale at Ryanair.com at the end of the month and Greek passengers and visitors will benefit from even lower fares due to the latest innovations of the Always Getting Better program, which includes lower prices for delivered luggage, Ryanair Rooms with Travel Credit, flights via Rome, Milan and Porto, and Ryanair Transfers.

Ryanair will begin flying to Jordan from March as it prepares to add 14 new routes to the Arab nation this year.

The airline will begin with a service from Paphos, Cyprus, to Amman, Jordan’s capital. By October it plans to operate ten routes to Amman, while in winter it will add four routes to Aqaba, Jordan’s splendid Red Sea resort.

Ryanair has been steadily increasing its Middle East capacity in recent years with flights to Ben Gurion International Airport and Ovda Airport in Israel. According to figures from OAG Schedules, two-way capacity has grown from 17,766 in 2015 to 268,191 in 2017.

Amman year-round schedule:

One new route from March to Paphos (four weekly)
Ten new routes from October: Bologna (two weekly), Brussels Zaventem (two), Bucharest (two), Budapest (two), Krakow (two), Milan Bergamo (three), Paphos (two), Prague (two), Vilnius (two) and Warsaw Modlin (two)

Aqaba winter 2018 schedule:

Four new routes: Athens (two weekly), Cologne (two), Rome Ciampino (two) and Sofia (two)

Jordan’s international market grew by 3 percent in 2017 to almost 10.5 million seats, according to figures from OAG, although only 14.3 percent were low-cost. Ryanair claims the 14 new routes to Jordan will bring 485,000 passengers per year.