The third hit in a week for a major German airport

Hamburg airport is taking a hit. In one week, three major airlines have canceled a large number of flights to and from the airport due to a significant increase in airport charges.

After Ryanair and Eurowings, Condor is now also cutting the number of flights to and from Hamburg airport, reports Aerotelegraph. “Due to a significant increase in Hamburg port fees, Condor is also changing its offer for the summer of 2025,” the holiday flyer reports. The flight offer will be reduced by thirteen percent in the season next summer, and the planned new destinations and increased frequency will be cancelled. The company is completely canceling connections to Samos in Greece and Malaga in Spain, and flights to Kos. in Greece are being significantly reduced. According to Condor’s CEO, Peter Gerber, the decision is ‘a logical consequence of the completely disproportionate increase in rates in Hamburg’.

It now appears that the northern German airport is being priced out of the market. Ryanair announced last week that it will reduce flights to Hamburg by up to sixty percent next summer. In addition, the company is canceling flights to Dortmund, Dresden and Leipzig and twenty percent of flights to Berlin. In addition, Low Cost Irish went out at the German airports involved in the high costs of airports, as well as the German government and especially the Minister of Transport Wissing. According to Ryanair, the German aviation market is currently the worst recovered in Europe.

Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings followed soon after, announcing it would remove more than a thousand flights to and from Hamburg from its summer schedule. These flights will be diverted to other airports. “The airport’s plans for a completely disproportionate increase in fares leave us with no choice,” said Eurowings CEO Jens Bischof. In response to the calls, Christan Kunsch, CEO of Hamburg Airport, In the face of criticism from the airlines, the increase in fares would represent only a small part of the total cost to the companies.