Ryanair has announced this morning that it’s expanding its operations out of Edinburgh Airport. It’s increasing the number of flights to key destinations, three of them in Spain.From November, it will have three weekly flights to Alicante and four each to Barcelona, Brussels, Frankfurt and Malaga.

According to Laszlo Tamas, the airline’s Sales & Marketing Manager for UK & Ireland, this will help to fill the gap left by the collapse of FlyGlobespan. We are very committed to the Scottish market.The airline carried just over 1.5 million passengers to 40 destinations from Edinburgh last year and claims to be on target to carry 2.5 million in the current year. Six of its 247 aircraft are based in the Capital. It says that no additional aircraft will be needed for the increased schedules.