Every European country facing Ryanair chaos - with 12 routes to Spain scrapped Ryanair is shaking up its offerings across major European hotspots The airline, known for its sarcastic social media presence and ultra-low priced flights, has announced it's scrapping some of its routes due to recent tax or surcharges it would have to fork out.
"This exorbitant tax, coupled with Austria's very high airport and security fees, is damaging Austria's competitiveness as a tourist destination compared to lower cost EU countries such as Sweden, Hungary and regions of Italy, all of which are abolishing aviation tax and reducing access costs to secure traffic and tourism growth," Ryanair said in a statement.
In a statement sent to the Mirror, Ryanair explained that it would close its Jerez and Valladolid operations, remove one based aircraft from Santiago, and will cut traffic at five other regional airports – Vigo (-61%), Santiago (-28%), Zaragoza (-20%), Asturias (-11%) and Santander (-5%) – during this summer.
CEO Eddie Wilson said: "Excessive airport charges and lack of workable growth incentives continue to undermine Spain's regional airports, limiting their growth and leaving vast swathes of airport’s capacity underutilised."
Ryanair confirmed last month that it will also remove one of its Rome-based aircrafts from Fiumicino (the country's largest airport) for summer 2025.
