Menorca’s main foreign tourist market, the British, wants to fly to the island earlier and earlier and the industry is responding to this growing demand. Airlines and tour operators have reinforced their commitment to April 2026, with significantly more flights than this year. Ten airports in the United Kingdom will be connected to the island from the first week of the month, with twelve direct routes open and a schedule of up to 27 weekly flights: unprecedented figures in the month prior to the official start of the season, which year after year is gaining an increasingly significant foothold in the tourism campaign, thanks in part to the economic boost provided by the Fundació Foment del Turisme, the promotional arm of the Council of Menorca.
The season is gaining momentum for the British market, partly due to so-called co-marketing agreements. The seasonal offer from operators such as Jet2, Easyjet and Ryanair is earlier – in some cases ahead of the last days of March – and more varied and abundant than this year, in which arrivals from British airports have grown by 16 per cent compared to last year. The margin for growth in the fourth month of the year remains enormous, and the schedule that has already gone on sale suggests further increases.
Jet2.com is already marketing the most varied offer among the operators ahead of April. The airline of tour operator Jet2 Holidays plans fly on the island between 3 and 4 April with connections to six UK airports: Birmingham, East Midlands, Leeds, London Stansted, Manchester and Glasgow, all routes with a frequency of one flight each way per week. A week later, on 11 April, it will open the route to Newcastle. At this time last year – schedules are always subject to change – it only offered flights from the first week of April with two British airports.
The airline that has loaded up its schedule for April is easyJet, which has also signed co-marketing agreements with the Fundació Foment del Turisme (Tourism Promotion Foundation); the most important of these is the agreement to maintain a twice-weekly connection between Menorca and London-Gatwick throughout the winter. The airline is ramping up its schedule with this airport from the end of March, with up to nine weekly flights. On 5 April, it will also add two more weekly flights from London Luton and, before that, on 31 March, it will start operating from Bristol airport, also with two flights a week.
Ryanair completes the trio of airlines that are flying in April to meet the demand for flights to the island from the United Kingdom. The Irish low-cost airline is in fact the earliest, if we discount the winter flight to London. It has already loaded a schedule that starts on 29 March with connections to East Midlands and London Stansted. The former with two weekly flights and the latter with three. Two days later, it will also start flying from Manchester with two connections a week. Despite the challenge to AENA, Ryanair’s operations remain unchanged from last year, even advancing slightly, probably to coincide with the days of the week with the highest demand.