🛫🇦🇹 Jet2's New Stansted–Innsbruck Route Unlocks St Anton and Mayrhofen 🇦🇹🛫
Here's a rare bit of genuinely good news for UK snowheads eyeing next winter: getting to the Austrian Tyrol just got a whole lot easier. ✈️
Jet2.com has put a brand-new London Stansted to Innsbruck ski route on sale for the 2026/27 season. It's their fifth ski route out of Stansted — joining Chambéry, Geneva, Grenoble and Salzburg — and it flies every Saturday from 19 December 2026 right through to 10 April 2027.
That's more than 6,000 extra seats into the Tyrolean capital, part of a 30% boost to Jet2's overall ski capacity this coming winter. One new flight. And, for us, two very familiar names waiting at the far end of the transfer.
Because Innsbruck is the gateway to two of the 16 resorts in Ready Steady Slope: St Anton am Arlberg and Mayrhofen. 🇦🇹🇦🇹
Two Resorts, One Airport
Innsbruck is one of the best-placed ski airports in the Alps — the Nordkette is barely 20 minutes from the runway — and it drops both of our Austrian cards within an easy transfer.
Mayrhofen, down in the Zillertal, is roughly an hour by road. St Anton am Arlberg, out along the Arlberg pass, is about an hour and a half. Land on the Saturday, boots on by lunchtime. 🎿
Two mountains that could hardly feel more different — and both earned their place in the deck the hard way.
One new flight. Two of our resorts. Both Austrian, both steep, both wearing their toughest runs on the card.
— RSS Team
St Anton: The Cradle of Skiing
St Anton am Arlberg is where modern skiing was more or less invented — Hannes Schneider built the Arlberg technique here in the 1920s, and the resort has been a byword for serious mountains ever since. It sits at the heart of Ski Arlberg, over 300km of linked pistes, with the Valluga standing guard at 2,811 metres.
The terrain is famously top-heavy: acres of red and black, north-facing snow that holds for days, and lift-served off-piste like the Schindlerkar that skiers cross Europe to tick off. The après at the Mooserwirt is every bit as storied as the skiing.
Its Resort card doesn't pretend otherwise. No green, a single blue, two reds and a black — a bottom-heavy hand that rewards bold play, exactly like the real Arlberg rewards skiers happy to stand atop the Valluga with nothing gentle in sight.
Mayrhofen: Home of the Harakiri
An hour the other side of Innsbruck, Mayrhofen is Tyrol at full volume — timber chalets, a riotous Ice Bar, and a high, snow-sure playground reached by cable car straight off the valley floor.
It's best known for one run. The Harakiri is the steepest groomed piste in Austria, a wall of a black at around 78% gradient that strong skiers turn up just to say they've survived it.
So the Mayrhofen card skips the gentle stuff entirely: no green, no blue, two reds and two blacks. It's the most demanding hand in the Austrian corner of the box — and it has earned every bit of that reputation.
Two Austrian classics, one new Saturday flight, and a very good excuse to settle the argument over the kitchen table before you go.
Ready Steady Slope puts all 16 real resorts in one deck — St Anton and Mayrhofen alongside Chamonix, Whistler and the rest — so you can scrap over which one is toughest long before the transfer coach turns up. Pick your resort, gear up, bomb the piste, outsmart your mates.
Safe travels next winter, and enjoy Innsbruck. 🏔️🎿🃏
– RSS Team