Ryanair is scrapping flights to these seven Spanish holiday destinations
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Ryanair is making a huge change to its 2025 schedule, and it’s not good news for the more than 17 million Brits who love a holiday to Spain. Due to ‘unjustified’ price hikes, the airline will be scrapping or reducing routes to seven Spanish destinations.
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It will be stopping all flights to and from:. It will also reduce flights in and out of:. It is unclear at this point on which routes Ryanair plans to reduce its traffic. The decision means 800,000 customers have had their flights cancelled completely, and equates to an 18% reduction in Ryanair’s operations.
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CEO Eddie Wilson said in a statement that the change in schedule came down to Aena, Spain’s state-controlled airport operator, issuing ‘unjustified’ price hike in airport charges. Airport charges are the fees that airlines pay to use the airport’s facilities. Aena had initially scaled back their charges during the pandemic, but Ryan say they’ve been increasing since.
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Wilson said: ‘Aena’s 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 under utilised.’. Wilson continued to call out Aena for its decisions, claiming the operator is failing to ‘support Spain’s regional growth’ and is instead focusing on foreign investments in airports across the Caribbean, UK, and the Americas.
‘Aena’s refusal to incentivise airlines to use underutilised capacity at its regional airports has forced Ryanair to reallocate aircraft and capacity to more competitive European markets, such as Italy, Sweden, Croatia, Hungary, and Morocco, where governments are actively incentivising growth,’ he said.
