Flying to Lanzarote from any UK airport is much more expensive than flying to any mainland Spain airport. There is good reason for this. Lanzarote is around 1,000 miles further away than mainland Spain. Fuel prices are not cheap. A flight to Lanzarote takes around four hours versus a flight to the Costa del Sol which take around one hour. Also a lot more tourists fly to the mainland Spain destinations like the Costa del Sol, Costa Blanca, Costa de la Luz and the Costa Calida.
Over the past few years more and more budget airlines have been offering cheap flights to Lanzarote. Companies like Ryanair, Easyjet and Jet2 are known as budget companies and now have scheduled airplanes arriving several days each week.
Lanzarote is an attractive destination for airlines to service as there is good weather all year round and an active tourist season. The busiest time of year for the Arrecife airport in Lanzarote are the summer months of school holidays. However the rest of the year still has a tourist season and is not dead like most other European tourist resorts.