Ryanair warns flights from 10 airports in Europe could be scrapped next year

RYANAIR has threatened to scrap flights from 10 airports successful France from adjacent year.

The airline's commercialized officer, Jason McGuinness, has revealed the hose is reviewing its French docket successful effect to a projected tax hike by the French government.

The French authorities is considering tripling taxes connected hose tickets and backstage jets successful a bid to plug a spread successful its budget.

Low-cost hose Ryanair has responded to the projected measure.

In a statement, McGuiness said: "Ryanair is present reviewing its French schedules and expects to chopped capableness to/from determination French airports by up to 50 percent from January 2025 if the French authorities proceeds with its short-sighted program to triple rider taxes".

The taxation summation is expected to autumn connected passengers.

McGuinness added: "The interaction of accrued rider taxes volition beryllium astir damaging for determination France which depends connected competitory entree cost".

Ryanair presently operates flights from 22 determination airports successful France, including 2 adjacent Paris, which aren't thought to beryllium impacted by the measure.

However, it is not yet known which airports volition beryllium affected, if the taxation hike goes ahead.

Earlier this year, Ryanair pulled its services from Bordeaux Airport successful a abstracted quality implicit airdrome fees.

The news comes aft Michael O'Leary, CEO of the fund airline, warned hundreds of UK flights could beryllium scrapped pursuing the caller Labour budget.

In the autumn budget, Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced flights crossed the continent volition present incur £15 of work charges - expanding it by £2.

As a effect of the emergence in Air Passenger Duty (APD), holidaymakers readying connected heading disconnected to much-loved destinations could soon conflict to publication Ryanair flights.

At the time, Ryanair boss Mr O'Leary said the hose would look to chopped UK capableness by arsenic overmuch arsenic 10 per cent next year.

This is the equivalent of a simplification of around five cardinal passengers.

He said: "This week's anti-growth aerial taxation summation shows that Chancellor Rachel Reeves has nary hint however to present maturation successful the UK economy.

"This short-sighted taxation drawback volition marque aerial question overmuch much costly for mean UK families going connected holidays overseas and volition marque the UK a little competitory destination compared to Ireland, Sweden, Hungary and Italy wherever these Govt's are abolishing question taxes to stimulate traffic, tourism, and jobs maturation successful their economies.

"Reeves has damaged the UK's maturation prospects and made aerial question overmuch much costly for UK families travelling overseas connected holidays oregon to sojourn friends and family."

Ryanair has already chopped its capableness successful Germany successful absorption to higher taxes.

Earlier this year, Ryanair launched its first-ever flights to Turkey.

Having antecedently operated routes to Turkey from Dublin and Bratislava, the hose volition present run from London Stansted.