Budget travellers will no doubt be celebrating Ryanair’s announcement that it will soon be flying to Eilat – the first time the airline has run routes to Israel.
But before you pack the sunscreen, there is a catch: it will only be flying from Hungary, Lithuania and Poland.
In an announcement on Tuesday, the Irish airline said that its three new routes – starting from November this year - will travel twice a week from Budapest, Kaunas and Krakow. It is thought the flights will carry around 40,000 passengers a year.
“We are continuing to negotiate with the Israeli authorities and we look forward to growing our Israeli route network in the future,” said the company’s chief commercial officer David O’Brien.
