The city of Rovaniemi and Finnish Lapland are celebrating the 2023-2024 winter season start, and Ryanair, the budget airline in Europe, showed up to party.The first-ever Ryanair flight from Milan Bergamo Airport landed at Rovaniemi Airport yesterday, November 4th, 2023. The flights from Milan to Rovaniemi will run twice a week, specifically on Tuesdays and Saturdays, throughout the 2023–2024 winter season.

Located on the outskirts of the city of Bergamo, Milan Bergamo Airport offers convenient access not only to Bergamo but also to various other cities in Northern Italy. Rovaniemi is the hub for travel in Lapland, and a destination on its own.

This new route marks the fifth connection offered by Ryanair departing from Rovaniemi Airport. Furthermore, the airline reintroduced its last winter's routes to Dublin, Charleroi in Brussels, and Stansted in London, with an additional weekly flight added to each of these routes for the upcoming winter season. Ryanair also launched a new route between Liverpool and Rovaniemi in October 2023.Petri Vuori, Finavia's Senior Vice President responsible for route development, expressed enthusiasm about Ryanair's international routes from Rovaniemi, stating they are valuable additions to Finavia airports' route offerings. Rovaniemi Airport, like other airports in Lapland, will now provide enhanced connectivity with the rest of the world during the winter season.

All these flights can now be easily booked through the Ryanair website.Learn more about Rovaniemi at Visit Rovaniemi.Photos: Visit Rovaniemi