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Ryanair Cuts 24 German Routes, Pulls 800,000 Winter Seats

The airline blames Germany’s aviation taxes and fees for making growth uneconomic.

Overview

  • Service reductions hit nine airports including Berlin, Hamburg, Memmingen, Baden-Baden, Cologne/Bonn, Frankfurt-Hahn, Weeze, Nuremberg and Bremen.
  • Berlin loses five routes and about 231,000 seats, while Memmingen suffers the sharpest proportional cut to its winter schedule.
  • Ryanair plans roughly 7 million seats from Germany this winter versus about 7.2 million last year and will keep 29 aircraft based in the country.
  • The carrier will continue not serving Dortmund, Dresden and Leipzig and is reallocating aircraft to lower-cost markets such as Stockholm after Sweden ended its ticket tax.
  • Further cuts in summer 2026 remain possible, and Ryanair says it would station 30 additional jets and lift annual traffic to 34 million if German costs were reduced.