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Ryanair slashes Berlin capacity by 20% on 'sky-high costs'
Ryanair
announced Tuesday a 20% capacity cut at Berlin Brandenburg airport as
authorities failed to reduce "its sky-high access costs."
"These
cuts will see Ryanair’s based aircraft at Berlin reduced from 9 to 7, resulting
in the loss of 750,000 seats and 6 routes (Brussels, Chania, Kaunas, Krakow,
Luxembourg, Riga)," Europe's ultra-low cost airline said in a statement on
Tuesday.
Its
capacity will be shifted to other EU countries such as Italy, Poland and Spain,
the airline said.
Ryanair
said in a statement that the move followed several warnings that Germany would
lose another 10% of Ryanair’s German capacity or 1.5 million seats for next
summer if the government does not reverse the 24% hike in Aviation Tax.
Text
and Image Credit: © AA
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