\n Revealed earlier today (Thursday, December 18), the Vueling route will connect the Scottish capital to the largest city in the Basque Country.\n<\/p>\n
\n The new flights will operate twice weekly from March 28, 2026, on Wednesdays and Saturdays.\n<\/p>\n
\n For those eager to jet off, tickets are already available to book online.\n<\/p>\n
Spanish airliner launches flight from Edinburgh to Bilbao<\/p>\n
\n The Spanish and Basque port city is well known for its thriving culinary scene, boasting beloved regional delicacies like pintxos, a special sirloin steak known as txuletas, and a sort of fish stew called kokotxas.\n<\/p>\n
\n The city also has a proud industrial heritage, something that can be learned about in its wonderful Guggenheim Museum.\n<\/p>\n
\n One of Europe’s largest markets, the Ribera Market, can also be found here, and visitors are regularly told to visit Casco Viejo, the Old Town.\n<\/p>\n
\n At the time of writing, Vueling is the largest airline in Spain and already operates a bi-weekly route from Edinburgh to Barcelona.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n This new flight comes after easyJet, a similar budget airline, launched a new route to Austria from Edinburgh’s international airport.\n<\/p>\n
\n The flight goes to Innsbruck in the Austrian Alps and made its inaugural flight from Edinburgh on Sunday, December 7.\n<\/p>\n
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\n EasyJet dubbed the city charming and praised its narrow streets, colourful facades, and popular cafes.\n<\/p>\n
\n Kevin Doyle, easyJet\u2019s UK country manager, said: \u201cOur new service from Edinburgh to Innsbruck offers our customers a convenient link to one of Europe\u2019s most charming Alpine cities.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAs the largest airline in Scotland, we continue to offer our customers greater choice and exceptional value across our unrivalled short-haul network and, in our 30th year, we remain committed to making travel easy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Revealed earlier today (Thursday, December 18), the Vueling route will connect the Scottish capital to the largest city…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-640692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}