Ryanair Ends Flights to 13 Destinations

Service ends across the network

Ryanair has removed service to 13 destinations from its schedule, with most of the changes taking effect this month. The airports affected are no longer being served by the carrier this year. The count does not include airports where a Ryanair base has closed but flights continue using aircraft stationed elsewhere.

The withdrawals represent only a small part of a network that continues to expand overall. For 2026, Ryanair submitted a schedule to OAG averaging 3,272 aircraft movements each day. That is 4% above the 2025 level and establishes another record for the airline. It operates one out of every six short-haul services within Europe.

Why airports lose service

Most of the discontinued destinations had only a limited Ryanair operation. The expense of serving an airport was usually an important consideration. The carrier has a history of leaving markets when airport fees or other charges increase, particularly because higher operating costs can undermine routes built around low fares and narrow returns per passenger.

Traffic rights also influenced service at the Turkish airports. Jordan differs because it has an open-skies arrangement with the EU. Ryanair can redirect aircraft and available capacity to other parts of its network when it considers those opportunities more profitable.

Amman disappears from schedules

Amman is among the markets without future Ryanair flights. Service to the Jordanian capital, through Queen Alia International Airport, was suspended earlier this year because of the continuing war. Flights had initially been expected to return in July, before uncertainty surrounding the conflict pushed the restart to late October.

The airline subsequently erased all later departures. There are now no Amman services planned through next summer. Ryanair currently publishes its broader schedule as far ahead as September 2027, and none of the 13 discontinued markets is expected to reappear during the available period. Some destinations could still return, with Amman identified as a possibility.

Bremen follows in 2027

A separate withdrawal will take place at Bremen, Germany, near the end of March 2027. Ryanair began operating there with a base and initially stationed a single 189-seat Boeing 737-800 at the airport. Across 19 years, it offered 18.3 million seats measured on a round-trip basis. Those seats represented roughly one-third of Bremen’s overall capacity and just over half of its international offering.

The operation had already contracted considerably. Round-trip capacity reached 1.8 million seats in 2010 but declined to 478,000 during 2025. Hamburg entered the Ryanair network in 2014, while the Bremen base itself shut in 2018. Hamburg and Bremen are separated by approximately 75 miles, or 120 km.

Capacity at Bremen nevertheless rose 8% in 2026. A new Lamezia Terme route contributed to that increase, alongside added seats serving Alicante, Palma de Mallorca and Zadar. Among the 230 airports in Ryanair’s network for 2026, Bremen ranks as its 119th busiest by service level.

The final Bremen flights

Six Bremen routes remain before the withdrawal: Alicante, Lamezia Terme, London Stansted Airport, Malaga, Palma and Zadar. The last scheduled departure is on Saturday, March 27, 2027, the closing day of the Northern Hemisphere winter under IATA slot-season timing. Flight FR3633 is scheduled to leave for STN at 4:55 PM, one of three services on that route during the day.

Once Ryanair exits, Bremen will no longer have air service to the UK. The airline tied its decision to the combined burden of airport charges, security expenses, air traffic control fees and the federal government’s air passenger duty. For travelers, the immediate effect of these withdrawals is a smaller set of direct Ryanair options, even as the carrier’s total network grows.

A larger seat footprint

Ryanair’s principal aircraft types are the Boeing 737-800 and Boeing 737 MAX 8-200. Their capacity produces an average of 191 seats on each flight, another high for the airline. The larger aircraft help lower seat-mile expenses, supporting fares intended to stimulate demand. As a result, Ryanair supplies 18% of all short-haul seats offered across Europe.