Ryanair has started rolling out its summer 2027 schedule, and the first wave includes nine new international routes — with one eyebrow-raiser in Germany, a country the airline has spent the past year abandoning.
The headline addition is Kassel-Calden Airport (KSF), a small airport in central Germany that will join Ryanair's network for the first time. From March 29 it gets a twice-weekly link to Lamezia Terme in southern Italy, followed by a twice-weekly Palma de Mallorca service on March 31. That's notable because Ryanair is simultaneously slashing its German footprint: 700,000 seats cut this winter, its Berlin Brandenburg base closed, and a full exit from Bremen coming in April. The airline has long complained about German aviation taxes and airport charges, so landing at Kassel suggests the airport is offering terms it can't refuse.
There's a second German twist: Alicante–Lübeck and Málaga–Saarbrücken both launch on March 30, twice weekly. The Lübeck route reads as a pointed jab at Hamburg — Ryanair can keep serving northern Germany without paying Hamburg's fees.
Elsewhere, Milan Bergamo continues its rise as one of Ryanair's biggest strongholds. The airline just stationed two extra aircraft there (a roughly $200 million investment, bringing the based fleet to 33) and is scheduling around 5.87 million seats this winter, up 5.5% year on year. Summer 2027 adds two more international routes from March 28: Shannon in Ireland and Aarhus in Denmark, each twice weekly.
Austria's Klagenfurt also wins, with new twice-weekly flights to Brindisi and Porto starting March 29 and 30. And in a genuine coup, Girona–Bratislava begins on June 1 — Bratislava's newer terminal has struggled to attract any scheduled airlines, with no regular passenger services at all this winter.
The additions fit a broader pattern: Ryanair is shifting capacity away from high-cost markets like Germany and towards Spain, Italy and Morocco. Its summer 2027 plan still isn't final, but the airline expects more than 2,500 routes serving 230 destinations. Morocco gets four new routes — three into Tangier from Alicante, Krakow and Turin, plus Marrakech–Palermo — while Rimini in Italy becomes a new two-aircraft base with five routes from Dublin, Warsaw, Memmingen, Stockholm and Tirana.
For travellers, the practical upshot is cheap sun-season access from a batch of smaller airports — Kassel, Klagenfurt, Saarbrücken, Lübeck and Bratislava among them. If you live near one, direct flights to Mallorca, southern Italy or Portugal that didn't exist last summer are now bookable. The flip side: if you rely on Ryanair in Berlin, Bremen or other high-fee airports, check your summer plans early, because capacity there keeps shrinking.
