Ryanair cuts 700,000 seats in Germany and closes Berlin base

Ryanair will cut 700,000 seats from its winter schedule in Germany, lowering its German capacity by ten percent compared with the previous winter, and will close its Berlin base on 24 October, reducing the fleet there to seven aircraft.

The airline will halve its winter capacity at Berlin, cancel about a dozen routes including Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Palermo and Thessaloniki, cut capacity at Hamburg by five percent, withdraw entirely from Bremen in the summer of next year, and increase traffic at Memmingen and Köln by two digits.