Europe is gaining a suite of flight routes before the end of 2026, making the world’s most popular tourism region easier to reach and explore.
North America and North Africa links
Air Canada will launch a unique North America–Tenerife route on 25 October, flying Toronto to Tenerife Sur twice weekly. From Halloween, the Canadian flag carrier will also serve Gran Canaria weekly from Montréal to Las Palmas on Saturdays, returning on Sundays.
Lufthansa’s leisure carrier Discover Airlines will fly two Morocco connections from October 2026: Frankfurt to Agadir and Munich to Fes. Between December 2026 and April 2027, it will add weekly Munich–Ivalo flights in Finnish Lapland.
Eurowings, Lufthansa’s budget branch, is adding direct connections from Berlin, Cologne / Bonn, Hamburg, Hanover, and Stuttgart. The schedule is unconfirmed, but likely candidates from November include Alicante and Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, Cairo in Egypt, Klagenfurt in Austria and Pristina in Kosovo.
Lufthansa itself meanwhile is set to fly Frankfurt to Kuala Lumpur from late November.
easyJet expands from UK airports
EasyJet will launch 13 routes from 10 UK airports, starting with Manchester to Nuremberg from 2 November, twice weekly. Nuremberg flights from London Gatwick begin on 19 November, followed by London Luton on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 23 November. The links will support seasonal market trips and corporate travel to Nuremberg’s business and trade fairs.
Like Lufthansa, easyJet is adding Morocco flights to Rabat from Luton and London Southend in early November and early December, respectively. North Africa also gains twice-weekly London Southend–Sharm El Sheikh flights from January 2027.
Bristol and Belfast will both connect to Budapest on Tuesdays and Saturdays from mid-November, joined by a twice-weekly Liverpool service on Thursdays and Sundays.
EasyJet is also targeting Norwegian short breaks, flying to Tromsø from Edinburgh from late November. Scotland gains another link with Glasgow to Poland twice weekly from mid-November.
EasyJet’s twice-weekly Manchester–Vienna service starts on 19 November, while a weekly Isle of Man–Geneva flight begins on 19 December.
Winter sun and long-haul additions
Air France is anticipating demand for premium winter sun. It will serve the Maldives twice weekly from Paris Charles de Gaulle to Malé until 7 March 2027, and increase Dominican Republic flights to three weekly.
The Caribbean is in ITA’s sights too, with a weekly Rome–Dominican Republic flight launching on 30 November and later rising to twice weekly.
Finnair will connect mainstream European cities to Lapland, with Brussels and Zurich flights to Kittilä and Paris operations to Rovaniemi. It also launches its first Australia service on 25 October, flying Helsinki to Melbourne via Bangkok.
Low-cost and regional European growth
Ryanair is closing some airport operations over cost complaints, but expanding elsewhere with 30 confirmed routes, mostly for winter 2026-7. Warsaw gains 12 routes, including Bratislava and Bristol, underlining Ryanair’s regional focus. Bratislava also gains Turin. Tirana, Paphos, Parma, Reggio, and London Stansted will also benefit.
Singapore Airlines will launch a Southeast Asia–Madrid service via Barcelona from 26 October, flying five days a week and reflecting Spain’s surging popularity, as well as long-haul premium demand from Europe.
Spain’s Soltour is also chasing city-breaks and winter sunshine, linking Almeria with Strasbourg, Asturias with Ljubljana, Badajoz or La Rioja with Prague, Murcia with Cologne, Palma de Mallorca with Budapest, and Zaragoza with Venice. Alicante, Bilbao, and Seville routes to Istanbul are also forthcoming.
SWISS will begin flying to India’s Bengaluru over the winter.
And, after focusing on Italian growth, Wizz Air is again rapidly expanding, this time in Spain. From Madrid, it will fly to Asturias, Palma de Mallorca, and Santiago de Compostela. Valencia gains links to Asturias, Bilbao, Palma, Santander, and Santiago. International additions include Pisa, Brașov, Naples and more Milan Malpensa flights, plus Bilbao–Malaga, Bilbao–Santiago and winter links involving Spain, such as London Luton to Asturias, Granada and Malaga, Bucharest–Almeria and Wrocław–Bilbao. New non-Spanish routes include Varna–Basel and Vilnius–Berlin.
