{"id":228690,"date":"2026-01-05T15:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T15:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/228690\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T15:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T15:21:10","slug":"all-the-destinations-ryanair-has-axed-flights-for-this-year-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/228690\/","title":{"rendered":"All the destinations Ryanair has axed flights for this year – and why"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryanair has been very vocal about its problems with rising<\/a> aviation taxes, fees and air traffic control in several different destinations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And although the budget airline is expanding routes to new spots, including trips from Newcastle<\/a> to Brussels, Budapest, Gda\u0144sk, Malta, and Wroc\u0142aw, a substantial amount of flights won’t be running this year.<\/p>\n

From popular holiday locations like Spain<\/a>, to other locations across Europe that Brits regularly frequent, the cuts have amounted to millions of seats lost.<\/p>\n

Read on as we outline all of the destinations Ryanair has axed flights to in 2026, and the reasons why.<\/p>\n

Most recently, the airline revealed last month it would be slashing\u00a0one million seats<\/a> and 20 flight routes from its Belgium winter 2026\/2027 schedule.<\/p>\n

Five of its aircrafts will no longer be based in the country, a move which is thought to create a $500m (\u00a3373m) loss in investments.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Airports\u00a0including Brussels Airport and Brussels South Charleroi will be hit by Ryanair’s cutbacks.<\/p>\n

Overall, the airline says the cuts will see a 22 per cent reduction in its services and is\u00a0in response to the Belgian government’s aviation tax that will see airlines charged \u20ac10 (\u00a38.75) per departing passenger from 2027.<\/p>\n

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Although Ryanair is expanding routes to new spots, a substantial amount of flights won’t be running this year<\/p>\n

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The airline revealed last month it would be slashing one million seats and 20 flight routes from its Belgium winter 2026\/2027 schedule<\/p>\n

It’s also backlash to\u00a0Charleroi city council\u2019s proposal that could see a \u20ac3 (\u00a32.60) charge per departing passenger tax this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Portugal is another destination to be impacted by Ryanair’s cuts.<\/p>\n

The airline announced in December<\/a> it\u00a0would stop running flights to and from the Azores, Portugal’s mid-Atlantic archipelago, from March 29.<\/p>\n

Ryanair explained how increased Air Traffic Control charges, a new \u20ac2 travel tax and high airport fees, was behind the decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The move will result in a loss of six different routes to and from the Azores, which, in total, carried 400,000 passengers a year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ryanair hit out at ‘French airport monopoly ANA’ which they claim ‘has no plan to grow low-fare connectivity to the Azores’ and is responsible for the airport fees<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The airline called for the Portuguese government to ‘intervene’ and make sure the country’s airports ‘benefit’ locals instead.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tax issues came into play when Ryanair announced in November it plans to axe certain routes to France this year.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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The airline also announced in December it would stop running flights to and from the Azores, Portugal’s mid-Atlantic archipelago, from March 29<\/p>\n

Ryanair removed flights from several regional airports including Strasbourg, Bergerac, and Vatry last year<\/p>\n

Then the airline’s commercial director, Jason McGuinness, warned more French airports would be added to the list.<\/p>\n

Speaking to French magazine, Challenges, he revealed that a tax increase of 180 per cent has rendered a number of regional airports ‘unviable’ for the airline.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The French government’s 2025 Budget includes raised taxes for air travel – adding an extra\u00a0\u20ac4.77 per ticket for domestic and European flights departing from France.<\/p>\n

The proposed plans are set to come into effect this summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A whopping 24 routes to and from Germany were slashed from the airline’s 2025\/2026 winter schedule.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ryanair announced in October how nearly 800,000 seats would be cut over what the carrier describes as an ‘exorbitant’ air travel tax.<\/p>\n

The move impacts nine German airports, including Berlin, Hamburg and Memmingen, while Dortmund, Dresden and Leipzig.<\/p>\n

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A whopping 24 routes to and from Germany were slashed from the airline’s 2025\/2026 winter schedule, including flights from Berlin Airport (pictured)<\/p>\n

It will bring Ryanair\u2019s overall capacity in Germany to\u00a0fall below Winter \u201824 levels.<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite millions of Brits jetting off to Spain every year, the airline also made cuts to several destinations across the popular European destination.<\/p>\n

Back in October, Ryanair revealed it would axe over a million seats to the country this year <\/a>– reducing\u00a0its Summer 2026 schedule by 10 per cent.<\/p>\n

It’s also set to stop flights entirely to and from Asturias Airport in northern Spain.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The decision comes as the Aeno Monopoly continue to increase ‘uncompetitive’ airport fees at regional airports –\u00a0many of which are under-used – across the country.<\/p>\n

Ryanair has said this decision ‘harms growth’.<\/p>\n

The move was part of a wider cull of Spanish routes by the carrier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It saw a drop of 41 per cent of its flights to regional areas this winter, including to\u00a0Zaragoza, Santander, Asturias and Vitoria.<\/p>\n

This includes flights to the Canary Islands, which are being slashed by 10 per cent – equal to 400,000 seats.<\/p>\n

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All flights to Tenerife North were axed from the beginning of the winter season<\/p>\n

All flights to Tenerife North were axed from the beginning of the winter season too.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, flights to Vigo, on Spain’s northwest coast were cut from January 1.<\/p>\n

The airline announced the cuts are a ‘direct result’ of the Spanish Government’s ‘failure’ to put a stop to Aena’s fee increases.<\/p>\n

The Spanish Government holds a majority stake (51 per cent) in Aena, the state-owned company that manages the majority of Spanish airports and heliports.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryanair has been very vocal about its problems with rising aviation taxes, fees and air traffic control in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,539,61,60,2888,1899,2846,2521],"class_list":["post-228690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-dailymail","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-portugal","tag-ryanair","tag-spain","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}