Ryanair is to cut its Vienna-based fleet from 19 to 16 aircraft starting late October 2025, taking 400,000 passengers out of the system and carrying 6.6m passengers compared to seven million last year. Ryanair says an increase in aviation tax led to the withdrawal from the market.
It follows a reduction of two million seats from Spanish regional airports this winter which Ryanair blames on a 6.2pc fee increase by AENA, redirecting one million seats to Barcelona and Madrid and another million to Italy and Portugal.
Ryanair has suspended services to Israel due to terminal cost issues in Tel Aviv but plans to resume flights to Jordan by late September 2025.
The carrier is exploring markets like Egypt, Tunisia, and Algeria, but regulatory barriers prevent expansion until these countries join the European Open Skies agreement.
Michael O’Leary shared: “About a million seats [from the region]are coming back to Barcelona and Madrid, because we can get higher fares there. Austria is a crisis point. This mad aviation tax of €12 per passenger, we keep declining.“
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