Once again, Alicante-Elx has topped the list of the international airports most visited by British travelers, but the Alicante airfield is expanding its horizons and looking to other markets. With the arrival of Russians having plummeted, who until the invasion of Ukraine constituted a very relevant source of tourists and residents for the province, Poles are occupying that place, both in real estate investment and in vacation travel.
The airlines know this, to the point that, facing the new 2024, Ryanair incorporates a new destination in that country, Rzeszow, the largest city in the southeast of Poland, with which there will now be eight Polish destinations that will have a connection with Miguel Hernández airport.
The Irish airline recently added another Eastern European destination, Budapest, capital of Hungary, to its catalog of connections with the Costa Blanca. Other news for the summer of 2024 are routes to Cardiff (Wales) and Norwich (England), Münster (Germany), Sofia (Bulgaria) and Zagreb (Croatia).
The Croatian capital is an unprecedented market at the Alicante-Elx airport, and will have two weekly flights, on Tuesdays and Saturdays. The route to the Polish city of Rzeszów, capital of the province of Subcarpathia, will be inaugurated on April 3 with two weekly flights, on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
If Zagreb represents an absolute novelty, in the case of the capital of Bulgaria, Ryanair comes to compete with Wizz Air, a Hungarian airline that has entered Alicante airport with force. Both companies will offer three weekly flights between Alicante-Elx and Sofia.
They are by no means the only airlines that plan to increase their presence in what has established itself as the fifth airport in Spain and is considered the best in Europe in its passenger range.
To the expansion plans announced by easyJet or Jet2 recently, the Swiss FlySwiss is also joining, which during the summer of 2024 will increase frequencies on the route to Zurich, going from 8 to 12 weekly flights. In addition, it will expand the route to Geneva, which since 2019 has operated between June and August, to begin flying on April 1.
