Airlines Ryanair shrinks Frankfurt-Hahn base

From March 25, 2018, the low-cost carrier will only station four Boeing 737-800s at the airport, instead of the previous five. The route to Plovdiv will be discontinued.

As it seems, Ryanair wants to focus more on Frankfurt´s main airport FRA. Routes to Porto, Venice-Treviso, Valencia and Zadar will be moved from Frankfurt-Hahn to Frankfurt Airport. Still, the airline will serve altogether 40 routes from Frankfurt-Hahn in the summer flight schedule 2018.

David O‘Brien, Chief Commercial Officer at Ryanair, said: "The decision to reduce the number of stationed aircraft at Frankfurt-Hahn from five to four, is due to weak economical performances because the demand for Ryanair aircraft is rising at other airports all over Europe. The remaining four aircraft will serve 40 routes in summer 2018, including holiday-destinations from Frankfurt-Hahn to Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal and Morocco."

In addition, O‘Brien asks the German government to remove the tax that an airline has to pay for every passenger. He said, the tax would be general and regressive, because it would disadvantage smaller airports.

Today, Ryanair also announced that it will add 15 new routes for the winter schedule 2018 in Northern Ireland.

Ryanair is a major European low-cost airline and is headquartered in Dublin (Ireland). The carrier services 33 countries on over 2,000 daily flights. Its fleet consists of over 400 Boeing 737 aircraft.