{"id":306992,"date":"2025-07-31T16:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306992\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:16:11","slug":"ryanair-threatens-to-reduce-flights-in-spain-due-to-airport-excessive-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306992\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair threatens to reduce flights in Spain due to airport &#8216;excessive&#8217; taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Irish low-cost airline Ryanair criticized Spain&#8217;s airport manager, Aena, for proposing a <strong>2026 airport tax increase<\/strong> of around 6.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Ryanair claims the increase is &#8220;excessive, unjustified, and harmful.&#8221; Which is why it is calling to rethink the idea under the threat of reducing the number of flights to and from Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The company is urging Spain&#8217;s CNMC market regulator to refuse the measure. Ryanair also criticized the <strong>Spanish government<\/strong> for its &#8220;passivity&#8221; despite being the company&#8217;s major shareholder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Aena is allowed to continue increasing its already very <strong>few competitive taxes<\/strong>, Ryanair will not have any other choice but to drastically reduce the number of seats and routes offered to regional Spain,&#8221; a company statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>The text adds that the &#8220;failed tax system pushes to not taking advantage of already existing infrastructures designed to support local economies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For this reason, unless the proposed airport tax increase is stopped, the Irish airline states that <strong>regional airports<\/strong> will be the most affected, even more than they are now, as &#8220;almost 70% of them are empty&#8221; due to <strong>Aena&#8217;s tax policies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing changes, Ryanair will have to &#8220;immediately rethink&#8221; its capacity at regional airports for the winter season, as &#8220;many routes will become commercially unviable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Based on Ryanair&#8217;s data shared on its website, the government tax charged per person per flight varies between Albania&#8217;s \u20ac1, \u20ac2 for flights over 500 kilometers within the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland departing from Belgium, and Finland&#8217;s \u20ac0.9.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Netherlands charges \u20ac29.40 per person and flight, while Spain and Italy offer different taxes depending on the airport. Based on Ryanair data, <strong>Barcelona El Prat charges<\/strong> \u20ac17.60 for flights to International EEA airport flights, and \u20ac20.39 for non-EEA airport flights.<\/p>\n<p>Aena approved increasing the taxes on Tuesday, with a minimum annual income of <strong>\u20ac11.03 per passenger<\/strong>, representing a 68-cents increase compared to figures from 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Out of these 68 cents, Aena claims that 45 cents are due to delayed taxes not implemented in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Irish low-cost airline Ryanair criticized Spain&#8217;s airport manager, Aena, for proposing a 2026 airport tax increase of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-306992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114948747082787719","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}