Vueling adds 89,000 extra flight seats for Tenerife North following Ryanair’s exit
Vueling has announced a major increase in flights to Tenerife and Santiago de Compostela for the upcoming winter season, adding more than 160,000 additional seats across both destinations, following Ryanair’s announcement to cut a million seats in Spain due to increasing landing fees from AENA.
At Tenerife North, Vueling will offer its most ambitious winter schedule to date with nearly 900,000 seats available — an 11% increase compared to 2024 and 89,000 more than last year.
This follows Ryanair’s decision to withdraw from Tenerife North airport altogether, cancelling 400,000 seats from its Canary Islands schedule, and now makes Vueling the leading carrier at this airport.
The airline will introduce 25 additional weekly frequencies this winter, boosting several key routes:
- Barcelona: +5 flights, bringing the total to 35 per week (five daily), offering onward connections to almost 90 destinations, including 60 international.
- Seville: +7 flights, now operating 24 per week (three to four daily).
- Santiago, Málaga and Alicante: +3 weekly frequencies each.
- Valencia: +2 weekly flights.
- Bilbao, Granada, Asturias and Paris: existing services maintained.
Since beginning operations at Tenerife North in 2008, Vueling has carried more than 11.2 million passengers. In 2024 alone, over 1.6 million people flew with the airline from this airport, and by mid-2025 it had already surpassed the one million passenger mark.
Ángel Pla, representing the company, explained: “With this expanded winter programme in the Canary Islands, we are reinforcing our commitment to maintaining and enhancing air connectivity for the Islands year-round. This is our most extensive winter schedule ever in Tenerife.”
Meanwhile, at Santiago de Compostela, Vueling will offer 578,000 seats this winter, 15% more than in 2024. To support the increased activity, the airline will base an additional aircraft there between 15th December and 6th January, which will remain permanently from summer 2026.
Key route increases from Santiago include:
- Barcelona: +6 weekly flights, totalling 28 per week.
- Palma de Mallorca: +4 flights, now 11 per week.
- Canary Islands: +1 to Fuerteventura, +3 to Tenerife, +4 to Gran Canaria.
- Seville: +3 flights per week.
- Málaga: +4 flights per week.
- Alicante: route reinstated with 2 weekly services.
- International: Zurich returns with 3 weekly flights (5 Dec–9 Jan), while connections to London (with Heathrow added) and Paris remain in place.
Vueling has operated from Santiago since 2006, transporting more than 9.6 million passengers to date. In 2024 alone, over 1.2 million passengers used its services, and so far in 2025, nearly 760,000 have already flown with the airline.
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