Aer Lingus has announced a number of new destinations, new daily services and additional frequencies to its European network.
The airline says this brings the number of short-haul routes the airline will operate next summer to 65.
New routes will see the airline fly from Cork to Manchester from March, Cork to Madrid and Prague from next summer, Dublin to Newcastle and Milan-Malpensa from summer and Dublin to Athens from June.
Aer Lingus says the introduction of the new service to Athens, which will operate three times a week, is a milestone development as it marks the airline's first service to Greece.
It will increase route frequencies to a daily basis from Dublin to Budapest, Geneva, Lisbon, Prague, Venice and Zurich.
Increased frequencies will also be operated on routes from Dublin to Barcelona, Berlin, Bologna, Dubrovnik, Krakow, Madrid, Naples, Nice, Rennes, Riga and Seville. Cork to Birmingham, Faro and London Heathrow will also see increased frequency.
'The increases announced today respond to customer demand for our services and we look forward to continuing the expansion of our short-haul network from Ireland generally, and to the continued broadening of the network scope out of Cork,' commented Aer Lingus CEO Dermot Mannion.
