The new service will operate four days per week (Monday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday) on an Airbus A319, with fares starting from £39.99pp one way. The inaugural flight will be on 6th May 2024.
Manchester Airport has the most diverse route network of any UK airport outside London, with around 200 destinations served by more than 50 airlines, and Stuttgart will become the eighth German city with a direct link to Manchester – the others are Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Dusseldorf and Freiburg.
Ryanair previously operated a flight from Manchester to Stuttgart between 2015 and 2019, and more than 78,000 passengers flew on the service in the last 12 months it operated.
Stuttgart’s economy revolves around the car industry with Mercedes-Benz and Porsche both being headquartered there. Its university is a world leader in automotive engineering.
The city is twinned with the Merseyside town of St. Helens, in what is believed to the first such twinning in Europe. St Helens’ relationship with Stuttgart was formalised in 1948, just a few years after World War II. As a leading manufacturer of glass at the time, St Helens played an important role in the rebuilding of Stuttgart after it was heavily bombed during the war.
