Ryanair scraps all services to European city leaving no direct UK routes

Budget hose Ryanair is cutting each flights to a fashionable European city, leaving nary nonstop betwixt the UK and the destination, owed to caller aviation taxes that person been implemented

Ryanair has confirmed that each flights to a European metropolis are being cancelled.

The fund hose has scrapped each flights to and from Aalborg, aft Denmark announced caller aviation taxes. The caller tax, which is 50DKK (£5.57), volition use to each passengers departing from Denmark and volition beryllium paid for by airlines. This means that from adjacent period each flights to Aalborg from London Stansted volition beryllium cancelled.

At contiguous Brits tin alert to the destination for £14.99 with Ryanair, however, erstwhile the way stops determination volition beryllium nary different nonstop flights from the UK.

Ryanair has since announced that they volition besides beryllium closing its basal astatine Billund airport, successful Denmark, which has 2 aircraft. Whilst this means determination volition beryllium nary Ryanair flights to the city, determination volition inactive beryllium a British Airways service. However, the prices for these are anticipated to increase, owed to the autumn successful supply. This volition beryllium a stroke for Lego fans hoping to sojourn the Legoland successful the city.

The cancellations volition spot a full of 32 routes scrapped, with 1.7 cardinal less seats.

A Ryanair spokesperson said: "We are precise disappointed to denote the closure of our 2 aircraft Billund base and our operations astatine Aalborg from the extremity of March, but we person been near with nary different prime pursuing the Danish Govt’s short-sighted determination to present a harmful aviation taxation from Jan 2025."

For British travellers wishing to caput to Aalborg, they volition present request to alert to Amsterdam or Copenhagen and alteration flights, with the cheapest formation being astir £81 each way. Ryanair has besides confirmed tat their Bournemouth to Agadir way has been cancelled, having lone launched the rout to the Moroccan metropolis backmost successful April 2024.

The Irish hose has criticised the caller Air Passenger Duty fees that volition beryllium introduced from April 2026, which volition spot a 15 per cent emergence connected astir flights.

However, the hose has confirmed 5 caller routes are launching from London Stansted airport. The caller routes see flights to Reggio Calabria successful Italy, which person already launched on with Linz in Austria. Flights to Clermont-Ferrand successful France, and Munster successful Germany, volition motorboat connected March 30 2025. Finally, from April 1 2025, flights to Lubeck successful Germany, volition besides commence from London Stansted Airport.

Recently, the hose has besides slammed Spain's aviation assemblage and pulled routes from cardinal determination airports, which meant removing astir 800,000 rider seats successful 2025 implicit "excessive fees". Officials person snapped backmost saying that the determination by the hose was "blackmail", nevertheless Ryanair past called connected the country's airdrome operator, AENA, to merchantability disconnected immoderate of its underperforming determination hubs.

The fund hose dominates Spain's aviation sector. Recently, the hose gave the Minister of Transport a dilemma, saying successful a statement: "Minister Puente has 2 options: helium tin proceed to enactment AENA’s failed determination airports argumentation oregon helium tin request a maturation program from AENA that volition pull airlines. If AENA fails to turn determination airports, it should beryllium forced to divest itself of determination airports that are presently suffering the consequences of its inaction."