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<\/p>\n27 October 2025\n <\/p>\n
Ryanair has announced major cuts to its German winter schedule, blaming what it calls excessive government taxes and airport charges for making the country uncompetitive in Europe\u2019s aviation market.<\/p>\n
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Ryanair has cut flights to Germany in its winter schedule<\/p>\n
\nThe Irish airline confirmed that 24 routes across nine airports, including Berlin, Hamburg and Memmingen, will be cancelled this winter, resulting in the loss of around 800,000 seats. <\/p>\n
\nAirports in Dortmund, Dresden and Leipzig are also set to remain closed, pushing Ryanair\u2019s capacity in Germany below last year\u2019s levels.<\/p>\n
\nThe carrier said the reductions were “entirely avoidable” and criticised Berlin for failing to reduce what it described as some of Europe\u2019s highest airport and access costs.<\/p>\n
\nDara Brady, Ryanair\u2019s Chief Marketing Officer, said: “Germany\u2019s air travel market is broken and needs an urgent fix. Due to its excessive access costs, Germany has only recovered 88 per cent of its pre-Covid traffic, which is by far the worst recovery of any major European market.”<\/p>\n
\nHe added: “Until the excessive (and rising) aviation tax, ATC charges, Security Fees and airport costs are addressed by the Government, German air traffic will simply continue to decline whilst other more competitive European countries (with no aviation taxes) benefit from turbocharged Ryanair traffic growth \u2013 at Germany\u2019s expense.”<\/p>\n
\nRyanair has repeatedly warned the German government that it would move aircraft and capacity to other EU countries if Berlin failed to act. The airline is calling for the reversal of the aviation tax increase introduced in May 2024 and a reduction in air traffic control fees.<\/p>\n
\nBrady said: “Ryanair once again calls on Transport Minister Patrick Schnieder to take urgent action to fix Germany\u2019s broken air transport system by reducing its high access costs which, combined with Lufthansa\u2019s high-fare monopoly, have forced German citizens and visitors to pay the highest airfares in Europe.”<\/p>\n
\nHe added that if reforms were introduced, Ryanair could invest an additional US$3 billion by basing 30 more aircraft in Germany, doubling annual passenger numbers to 34 million and creating over 1,000 new jobs across the country.<\/p>\n
\nThe airline said it remained committed to the German market but that action was needed to “restore growth and competitiveness” across its airports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"27 October 2025 Ryanair has announced major cuts to its German winter schedule, blaming what it calls excessive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[172049,2000,299,1824,122803],"class_list":{"0":"post-530848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-dara-brady","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-patrick-schnieder"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115445505847199506","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530848","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=530848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}