Low-cost comeback: Budget carriers boost Jordan’s aviation network
August 19, 2025
The return and expansion of low-cost carriers, including Ryanair, Eurowings and Wizz Air, are set to boost growth in Jordan’s tourism sector.
According to Jordan’s Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Imad Hijazin, low-cost carriers (LCCs), including Wizz Air and Ryanair, will gradually resume flights to Jordan starting late August.
Both carriers had previously served destinations including Amman and Aqaba, but had cancelled operations in the region following airspace closures in response to military strikes between Israel and Iran in June.
Wizz Air and Ryanair are flying back to Jordan
Wizz Air, which is abandoning its Abu Dhabi operations in September amid plans to refocus on its core Central and Eastern European markets, is now set to resume flights between Budapest and Queen Alia International Airport in Amman on 26 August.
The Hungarian LCCs upcoming winter schedule is also expected to include four direct flights to King Hussein International Airport in Aqaba from Katowice and Warsaw in Poland, Bucharest in Romania and Sofia in Bulgaria.
Under the previous agreements made in April with the Jordanian authorities, Ryanair planned to operate 27 weekly flights through 14 direct routes to Amman from key European hubs, including Paris, Rome, Madrid, Milan, Budapest, Brussels, and Memmingen. It is now anticipated that the Irish LCC will resume its services to the Jordanian capital from mid-September.
The move to expand low-cost connectivity signals the beginning of broader plans to restore and expand affordable travel between Jordan and Europe.
According to a report in The Jordan Times in June, Jordan Tourism Board (JTB) Director General, Abdulrazzaq Arabiyat, credited the return of direct and low-cost air routes with “significantly facilitating tourist access to Jordanian destinations, positively impacting the sector’s performance.”
Between January and May 2025, 578 low-cost flights accommodated around 102,000 passengers to Jordan.
Eurowings and Transavia are expected to follow suit
Eurowings is also expanding its medium-haul network with new routes to Amman as part of its upcoming winter season. The twice-weekly flights, which are due to start on 27 October, will depart every Monday and Thursday from Stuttgart.
The German LCC is further expanding its network in the Middle East with direct flights connecting Düsseldorf and Dubai three times a week from 13 December, as well as flights between Nuremberg to Erbil in Iraq from 4 November.
Commenting on the expansion of its direct flights to the Middle East, Jens Bischof, Eurowings CEO, said, “Our well-developed connections to the Gulf region are by far the most popular and successful routes in our winter flight schedule.”
Transavia is also expected to resume flights between Amsterdam and Amman in November 2025, with services being operated twice weekly initially with a Boeing 737-800.
