Ryanair (FR, Dublin International) has announced it will reopen its base at Toulouse Blagnac, closed during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, starting with the Winter 2022/23 season.
The Irish low-cost carrier plans to base two B737-800s and operate 23 routes out of the French airport, including seven new destinations not served previously (Birmingham, GB, Luxembourgs, Rabat, Tenerife Sur, Venice Treviso, Rome Fiumicino, and Kraków John Paul II International). Flights will be operated by Malta Air (MAY, Malta International). Toulouse will be the fourth Ryanair base in France after Paris Beauvais (operated by Ryanair (FR, Dublin International)), Bordeaux Mérignac, and Marseilles (both operated by Malta Air), the ch-aviation PRO airlines module shows.
Ryanair opened its base at Toulouse airport in March 2020 according to a schedule announced before the COVID-19 pandemic began. As the crisis hit European aviation, the airline suspended all operations from Toulouse in November 2020. It restarted flights to the city in March 2021, albeit without reactivating the base.
Toulouse already hosts bases for rival LCCs easyJet Europe (EC, Vienna) and Volotea (V7, Barcelona El Prat). Ryanair currently has a 14.9% market share by scheduled departure capacity out of the airport, behind Air France (AF, Paris CDG) and easyJet, according to the ch-aviation capacities module.
