Ryanair reopens Tours-London route for summer 2026
All four of the Irish airline’s summer services have returned to the airport
The budget carrier is one of the main airlines to serve the airport
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Budget carrier Ryanair is to reopen its Tours - London Stansted route for the spring-summer 2026 period, after it was one of several services axed last winter.
Flights will run between March 29 and October 21 on Wednesdays and Sundays, with tickets now available on the Ryanair website. Return tickets begin from around €90, but increase during the summer period
Following the route being cut, Ryanair was quick to announce flights from Tours to Marrakesh and Marseille would remain in place in summer 2026.
However, the future of the London Stansted route and another service to Porto remained uncertain until the recent announcement.
The news means all four of the Irish airline’s summer services from Tours Loire Valley airport will return in 2026. Whether either route will be stopped for the winter remains uncertain, as announcements are made on a seasonal basis.
It means the regional airport has avoided a round of summer 2026 culling announced by the airline for routes to and from France.
The move, which airline management says is due to increased airline taxes introduced in France in 2025, will follow on from a first round of cuts in winter 2025.
Many readers have written, however, to say they would gladly pay more, within reason, for the services near them to remain.
Ryanair has not said which specific routes it is looking to cut over the summer period.
While many popular UK-France routes have returned, others are yet to be confirmed.
More broadly, Ryanair is not expected to expand or add new routes in France and has said that none of the aircraft in its newly ordered fleet is currently planned for French services.
As a reminder, anyone travelling with Ryanair will now need to use digital boarding passes.
