Ryanair has said it will cut 12% of its traffic through German airports next year in a row with the government there over high location charges.
The cuts will result in a loss of 1.8 million seats from the start of the summer flight plan in April 2025 and will see Ryanair close its Dortmund, Dresden and Leipzig operations as well as reducing its Hamburg operations by 60%.
The closure of specific routes means as many as 10,000 flights will be hit, The Telegraph reports.
The move “will be devastating for jobs, tourism and connectivity”, Ryanair has said, calling on Germany’s transport minister Volker Wissing and the government “to act immediately to lower access costs and fix Germany’s broken air transport system”.
The airline has repeatedly warned that it would switch capacity to other EU countries if Germany did not meet its demands to reverse an aviation tax increase and reduce air traffic control charges.
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