Ryanair loses landing rights at European airport in rare late flight penalty
Ryanair loses key landing slots over repeated late arrivals
- Ryanair has lost two landing slots at Eindhoven Airport after its Monday evening flights from Sofia and Thursday evening flights from Pisa consistently arrived late.
- Airport Coordination Netherlands (ACNL) removed the budget airline from these two slots for next summer's schedule, a penalty rarely issued by the body.
- The Irish low-cost carrier is also planning to reduce flights from several other European airports next summer, including numerous French airports.
- Ryanair's Chief Commercial Officer, Jason McGuinness, attributed these broader cuts to 'unviable' tax hikes in France, making operations economically unviable.
- This reduction includes cancelling all flights to Bergerac, Brive, and Strasbourg in July, and slashing 1.2 million seats from its Spanish flight schedule.