Ryanair’s Chief Commercial Director, David O’Brien, announced the budget airline’s winter 2017 schedule last month at a press conference in Tel Aviv. The schedule includes 19 routes, of which 15 are new. The airline will fly seven new routes to Ben Gurion Airport from Baden Baden, Gdansk, Krakow, Poznan and Wroclaw twice a week; Milan Bergamo four times a week; and from Paphos daily.

Eight new flight frequencies to Ovda Airport are Baden Baden, Berlin, Brussels Charleroi, Frankfurt Hahn, Gdansk, Milan Bergamo, Poznan and Warsaw, all operating twice weekly in addition to its current routes to Eilat from Bratislava, Budapest, Krakow and Kaunas, also offered twice weekly. Flight departures are scheduled from the end of October