You can now book long-haul flights to North, Central and South America through Ryanair

Conor Heneghan

Another option to make a getaway to somewhere a long way from home.

Ryanair has just announced a new partnership with Spanish airline Air Europa that will allow its customers to book long-haul flights to 20 routes throughout North, Central and South America through the Ryanair.com website.

From today, May 23, onwards, customers can browse and book Air Europa flights on 20 long-haul routes from Madrid to 16 countries, including to destinations such as New York, Buenos Aires, Cancun, Sao Paulo, Havana and Montevideo (see the list of routes in full at the bottom of the page).

While customers are currently only able to book Air Europa flights to and from Madrid, the second phase of the Air Europa partnership, to be launched later this year, will allow Ryanair customers to connect onto Air Europa long-haul flights through Madrid.

Ryanair says it is continuing its discussions with a number of other long-haul airlines on potential feed and connecting flight partnerships.

Commenting on the partnership with Air Europa, Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary said: “We are pleased to announce this exciting partnership with Air Europa, which allows our customers to browse and book flights on 20 long routes from Madrid to exciting cities in Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico and the USA on the Ryanair.com website.

“Ryanair operates over 50 short haul routes to/from Madrid and now our customers can book flights on Air Europa long-haul routes to destinations including Buenos Aires, Havana and New York.

“This partnership is the latest AGB enhancement as we continue our journey to becoming the ‘Amazon of travel.’ We continue to speak to a number of other long haul airlines about potential connecting flight partnerships and we look forward to offering our 130m customers an even greater choice and range of long-haul services in 2018.”

For more information, check out Ryanair.com.