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LISTED: All the new direct flights to and from Spain in 2024

Airlines such Ryanair, EasyJet and Norwegian are adding a whole host of new flights to and from Spain both this winter and throughout 2024. Here's the full list.

Published: 16 November 2023 16:21 CET
Updated: 19 November 2023 08:18 CET
LISTED: All the new direct flights to and from Spain in 2024
Several new flight routes are launching to and from Spain in 2024. Photo: JOEL SAGET / AFP

New routes to Egypt and Morocco, increased flights between Spain and UK and new schedules to Scandinavia, there are plenty of potential travel plans to get excited about this winter and into 2024. 

EasyJet

EasyJet will be offering five new routes between Spain and the UK next year. These are:

– London Luton to Reus (Catalonia) starting on April 2nd 2024, operating twice a week on Tuesdays and Saturdays throughout the summer. 

– Manchester to Reus (Catalonia) starting on April 2nd 2024 and operating twice a week on Tuesdays and Saturdays throughout the summer.

– Southampton to Alicante starting on March 31st 2024 with three flights per week throughout the summer.

– Newcastle to Alicante starting on April 2nd 2024. It will operate twice a week on Tuesdays and Saturdays. 

– Belfast City to Alicante starting on May 2nd 2024 with flights twice a week on Thursdays and Sundays. 

Ryanair

– Ryanair will be operating a new route between London airports Gatwick, Luton and Stansted to the Galician city of Vigo. Details and start dates haven’t been released yet. 

– There will also be increased frequency on Ryanair routes between the UK and Alicante. 

READ ALSO – EXPLAINED: The big changes for train travel across Europe in 2024 

Norwegian

Norwegian will add 3.4 million seats to and from Spain for the summer season, 21 percent more than the 2.8 million places offered in the summer of 2023.

– Palma de Mallorca to the Swedish cities of Stockholm and Gothenburg with three flights a week starting in April and May 2024 respectively.

– Palma de Mallorca to Vaxjo (Sweden) starting in May 2024.

– Palma de Mallorca to the Danish cities of Aarhus and Billund (Denmark) twice a week starting in May 2024. 

– Palma de Mallorca and Sadefjord Torp (Norway) will operate once a week starting in May 2024.

– Alicante to Aarhus and Billund (Denmark) twice a week starting in March and June 2024, respectively

– Alicante to Munich (Germany) twice a week starting in April 2024

– Alicante to Vaxjo (Sweden) twice a week starting in May 2024.

– Málaga to Arhus and Billund (Denmark) three times per week starting in April 2024.

– Málaga to Munich (Germany) three times per week starting on June 22nd 2024.

– Barcelona to Sandefjord Torp (Norway) twice a week starting June 5th 2024.

– Bilbao to Copenhagen (Denmark) twice a week from June 2nd 2024.

– Valencia to Copenhagen (Denmark) twice a week from April 5th 2024.

American Airlines

– Barcelona to Dallas, Texas (USA) starting in June 2024.

United Airlines 

United will also be resuming some of its routes between Spain and the US in winter and spring 2024. These include:

– Málaga to New York (Newark) starting on May 2nd 2024.  

– Barcelona to Washington Dulles starting on February 15th 2024. 

READ ALSO – EXPLAINED: Spain’s new low-cost Iryo train between Barcelona and Seville

Iberia Express

– Madrid to Cairo (Egypt) three times per week. Flights began on  October 30th 2023. 

– Madrid to Marrakech (Morocco) every other day of the week two with two flights per day. Flights began on October 29th 2023. 

Increase flights to nine per week between Madrid and Dublin (Ireland). 

And increase in routes between Madrid and Manchester with 4 round trips per week.

Increased flights between:

– Madrid and Balearic Islands

– Madrid and the Canary Islands

Singapore Airlines

If you’re looking to go further afield next year then Singapore Airlines will be re-launching its route between Barcelona and Singapore that was operating before the pandemic. It will run twice a week between June and October 2024. 

LEVEL

– Barcelona to Miami, Florida (USA) starting on March 31st 2024 with three flights per week on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.

Eurowings

Eurowings has already relaunched its routes between the Canary and Balearic Islands and Germany in the 2023/2024 winter season. 

– Gran Canaria to Nuremburg (Germany) 

– Palma de Mallorca to Nuremburg (Germany) 

– Gran Canaria to Hanover (Germany) 

– Palma de Mallorca to Hanover (Germany) 

– Tenerife to Hanover (Germany) 

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TRAIN TRAVEL

New 6-hour Madrid-Lisbon train to launch in 2027

A new high-speed rail link between Madrid and Lisbon is being built, which will cut the journey time from nine to six hours in 2027 and eventually aim to connect the Spanish and Portuguese capitals in just three hours by 2034.

Published: 21 May 2024 13:10 CEST
New 6-hour Madrid-Lisbon train to launch in 2027

In the meantime, while it’s waiting to be finished, a new service taking six hours, rather than the current nine, has been proposed to begin in 2027.

The news was announced by the Portuguese government this Tuesday when discussing the construction of a new airport. Portuguese authorities mentioned that a highspeed Madrid to Lisbon connection would be ready within the next decade.

The main reason that this will now be possible is the construction of a third bridge over the Tagus River.

Currently, there is no direct route between the two cities, a situation that hasn’t changed since the early days of the pandemic in 2020 when Spain’s Renfe decided to get rid of the sleeper train between Madrid and Lisbon.

That means that you now need to change trains at least twice if not three or four times. The fastest train takes around nine hours and of these, there are around three per day. 

The main objective of the new high-speed line to is cut this journey down to three hours.

While the works for the creation of this route are completed, both governments are working on a line that will be completed in sections allowing the journey time to be cut down to six hours by 2027. 

READ ALSO: Why are there so few trains between Spain and Portugal?

Spain has already built 150 kilometres of track between Plasencia, Cáceres and Aragón. According to the Secretary of Transport and Sustainable Mobility José Antonio Santano, they are in talks with the local government of Castilla-La Mancha to create another part of the route.

“We are going to get there sooner,” the minister stated, referring to the fact that he believes the works will be completed in 2030. Santano added that the “pending parts” of the route are being analysed.

The Portuguese government, on the other hand, has already started on the construction of one of these sections from Évora to Elvas, which could be operational by next year.

Not all is as it seems

Unfortunately, not everything has been going according to plan and there have been several teething problems.

Not only that, the matter of poor Spain-Portugal rail connections is in fact a long-running political saga, which began 24 years ago.

In 2000, the governments of both Spain and Portugal began to talk about the possibility of linking their capitals via the high-speed AVE trains. But at the beginning of 2023, each country was still disagreeing on where the line should run.

The Ministry of Transport of Spain said the line would pass through Extremadura, while the Portuguese government wanted it to go via Galicia en route to Porto and then down to Lisbon from there.

Could Spain and Portugal have finally put their problems behind them to work together?

The new routes also plan to connect several other cities, including the journey between Porto and Vigo, which will take 50 minutes and between Porto and Lisbon, which will take one hour and a quarter.

Thanks to this alternative, the 40 daily flights between Lisbon and Madrid and twenty between Porto and the Portuguese capital could be reduced.

“The investment schedules will be compatible with Spain, to guarantee a coordinated and timely execution of the project, fully optimising the availability of European financing,” said a statement from the Portuguese government.

Although Spain has already completed its sections of the line in time, Portugal will take another few years to make it fully operational, taking us up to 2027 when the faster route between the capitals will finally be possible.

In late 2023, Spain’s junior coalition partner Sumar called for the return of the sleeper train that once connected Madrid with Lisbon (before it was halted during the Covid-19 pandemic). As of yet, there has been no mention if this will happen, but when the new sections of the track are complete, it may be possible that it might return. 

It remains to be seen whether the ultimate objective of a three-hour connection between Madrid and Lisbon will be ready by 2034.

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