Ryanair’s Spain Shake-up: Closures, Dates And Airports

Ryanair is wielding nan axe crossed location Spain this winter, blaming higher airdrome charges from Aena.

The Irish bearer will adjacent its Santiago de Compostela guidelines and extremity each flights to Vigo and Tenerife North, pinch much cuts dispersed crossed Asturias, Santander, Zaragoza, Vitoria and nan Canary Islands. In all, astir 2 cardinal seats a twelvemonth will beryllium re-routed to Italy, Morocco, Croatia and Albania, according to a institution briefing successful Madrid and an accompanying statement.

Ryanair to axe routes successful Spain – what closes and when

• Santiago de Compostela (SCQ): guidelines to adjacent this wintertime 2025/26, removing 2 based craft and astir associated flying.
• Tenerife North (TFN): each services axed from nan commencement of nan wintertime season.
• Vigo (VGO): flights suspended from 1 January 2026.

Beyond those header moves, Ryanair says it will support Valladolid and Jerez closed and trim capacity astatine respective airports: Zaragoza (-45 per cent), Santander (-38 per cent), Asturias (-16 per cent) and Vitoria (-2 per cent). The airline’s ain figures constituent to a 41% simplification crossed location Spain and 10 per cent down successful nan Canary Islands, equating to a nationwide trim of 16 per cent for wintertime 2025/26.

The institution frames nan Santiago exit arsenic a sizeable nonaccomplishment of finance for Galicia, pinch 2 craft withdrawn and associated jobs and connectivity disappearing pinch them. It besides lists 36 regional–Canaries links to beryllium dropped entirely.

Why Ryanair is cutting Spain

At a property convention successful Madrid, executives based on they “remain committed to Spain” but can’t warrant further finance wherever airdrome maturation is “stymied by excessive and uncompetitive charges”. The target of their disapproval is Aena, Spain’s state-controlled airdrome operator, which plans to raise hose fees by astir 6.5% successful 2026. Those fees screen nan usage of terminals, runways, information and baggage handling and are intended, successful part, to thief money description successful Madrid and Barcelona.

Ryanair has asked Spain’s CNMC title watchdog and nan authorities to artifact nan increases and widen nan existent interest freeze. The bearer points retired that it already trimmed Spanish capacity earlier this twelvemonth and warned further cuts would travel if charges kept rising. The caller measures present connected that warning.

What it intends for travellers

For passengers successful Galicia and nan northbound of Tenerife, nan changes mean less nonstop options and apt higher fares connected remaining routes arsenic capacity tightens. Flyers from Asturias, Santander, Zaragoza and Vitoria will besides consciousness nan compression pinch reduced frequencies. Ryanair says nan seats won’t vanish wholly from its network—they’re being redirected to faster-growing markets astir nan Mediterranean.

If you’re booked to recreation from precocious October (start of nan wintertime season) aliases aft New Year to/from Vigo, support an oculus connected your email and booking app. The hose typically offers re-routing, day changes aliases refunds erstwhile it cancels a route. Travellers pinch elasticity mightiness still find alternatives via Tenerife South, A Coruña, Porto aliases Madrid—though travel times and prices will vary.

Ryanair’s Spanish retrenchment is now charismatic and significant. Unless Aena and nan hose find communal crushed connected charges, location Spain looks group for a leaner wintertime schedule while different countries summation nan capacity.

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