RYANAIR has announced that it is cutting more than half a million seats to two European countries before the end of this year.
The budget airline will scrap 550,000 seats from Estonia and Lithuania this winter, which means it will reduce its capacity to the two countries by around a quarter.
The airline has said that the decision comes after higher airport costs in the two countries.
According to Ryanair, airport charges in Lithuania have risen by 30 per cent since 2023.
In Estonia, on the other hand, there has been an increase in charges at Tallinn Airport.
It isn’t clear how many UK flights will be affected, but overall it works out to as many as 3,000 overall.
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Ryanair is now looking at increasing capacity in other destinations with lower airport charges.
For example, Riga in Latvia will gain around 40,000 seats this winter.
This means that the airline will operate 16 routes to Riga during this winter.
Ryanair has also decided to increase capacity on a number of other routes including Barcelona and Milan.
A number of other destinations will also lose Ryanair seats this winter.
Greece is set to lose around 700,000 seats and 12 routes.
In Belgium, there will be a reduction of one million seats and 20 routes.
And the airline has already axed flights from a number of airports across Spain, Portugal and Germany.
The news comes just days after the airline said that it plans to have 11 million seats across Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania by 2031 and increase its aircraft in the region from seven to 16.