{"id":69373,"date":"2026-04-27T11:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/69373\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T11:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:31:12","slug":"most-failing-airport-in-europe-ryanair-begins-phasing-out-berlin-base-blaming-drop-in-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/69373\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Most failing airport in Europe\u2019: Ryanair begins phasing out Berlin base blaming drop in traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Europe\u2019s largest airline Ryanair will soon bid farewell to its Berlin base, with plans to halt its seven aircraft operations in the German capital on 24 October.<\/p>\n

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The carrier<\/a> pointed to Berlin as the “most failing airport in Europe”, citing an air traffic decline of 27% \u2013 from 36 million passengers in 2019, down to 26 million last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll seven Berlin-based aircraft will in this case be reallocated to lower cost airports in other EU states that have abolished aviation taxes like Sweden, Slovakia, Albania and Italy<\/a>,\u201d the budget airline\u2019s statement said.<\/p>\n

In its winter schedule, Ryanair will reduce the number of flights it operates to and from Berlin by 50%. <\/p>\n

The carrier\u2019s grievances also stem from what Ryanair DAC CEO Eddie Wilson referred to as a “stupid aviation tax regime\u201d, whereby the German commercial aviation<\/a> model, heavily reliant on high taxes, has failed people. <\/p>\n

Wilson also slammed German aviation as \u201cbroken\u201d, with no exit plan to lower aviation taxes<\/a> or high airport fees.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince 2019, Ryanair has been forced to close its bases in Frankfurt<\/a>, D\u00fcsseldorf and Stuttgart (resulting in the loss of 13 based aircraft) in addition to stopping all flights to Dresden, Leipzig and Dortmund,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

According to the carrier, aviation tax doubled since 2019 from \u20ac7.30 to \u20ac15.50 per passenger, security fees are expected to double from \u20ac10 in 2024 to \u20ac20 per passenger by January 2028, air traffic control fees have trebled to \u20ac3.30 per passenger and on top of airport fees already increasing by 50% since the Covid-19 era, a further 10% increase will come into force by 2029.<\/p>\n

This sentiment apparently came as a surprise to Berlin<\/a> Brandenburg Airport. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are surprised by Ryanair’s announcement at this point in time,\u201d the airport said in a statement via X. \u201cWe are engaged in ongoing negotiations with the airlines. An increase in airport charges is not planned.\u201d<\/p>\n

The budget carrier\u2019s announcement also comes after news from Germany\u2019s Finance Ministry of the Federal Cabinet approving plans to roll back flight taxes (Luftverkehrsteuer) to 2024 levels.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Federal Ministry of Finance considers it important that the reductions are passed on to travellers,\u201d the ministry\u2019s statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s largest airline Ryanair will soon bid farewell to its Berlin base, with plans to halt its seven…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[3326,112,190,1765],"class_list":{"0":"post-69373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-airlines","9":"tag-berlin","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-ryanair"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116476450400215467","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}