Ryanair is axing 10% of its flights to the Canary Islands this winter as part of a cull of Spanish routes, which will see it dropping 41% of its flights to regional Spain.
All flights to Tenerife North will be axed from the start of the winter season, along with flights to Vigo from January 2026.
Ryanair is also closing its two-aircraft base in Santiago, and its bases at Valladolid and Jerez airports will not reopen this winter.
The airline said that, overall, it will reduce its capacity to Spain by one million seats. It will operate 400,000 fewer seats to the Canaries and 600,000 fewer to Spain’s smaller regional airports, including Zaragoza, Santander, Asturias and Vitoria.
Ryanair currently flies from Zaragoza and Santiago to London Stansted and from Santander to London, Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester.
The airline has cancelled a total of 36 direct connections to regional Spain and the Canary Islands.
It said that it ‘remains committed to Spain’, but it’s reducing its capacity due to increases in airport fees. The charges by airport operator AENA are due to increase 6.62% from next year, according to Ryanair.
Eddie Wilson, CEO of the airline’s parent company Ryanair DAC, said: “This excessive increase – the highest in over a decade – means most of Ryanair’s winter ’25 capacity to regional Spain will migrate out of Spain to more efficient airports that wish to develop traffic, particularly those in Italy, Morocco, Croatia, Sweden and Hungary.”
