Originally Posted by
ara01jbb
Ryanair are abandoning all domestic routes within Sweden, blaming taxes, fees blah blah blah. Affects ARN - LLA/SKF/GOT/MMX/VBY; all trunk routes for SK, TF and DY.
(Meanwhile, for context, Norwegian reported 2023 results this week: EBIT 2.23 billion NOK (212 million USD) margin of 9%; about to pay out dividend of 50 million USD its shareholders. I don’t believe FR moaning about taxes and fees when other airlines are doing just fine.)
FR were welcomed in Sweden, but without guaranteed connections in ARN they would have struggled to survive on just P2P.
Report (in Swedish) about the cancellations:
https://www.tn.se/naringsliv/35560/s...sta-flygbolag/
Norwegian’s results:
https://newsweb.oslobors.no/message/611110
It was a very thin operation. I don’t think any of the routes were even daily.
The truth is Ryanair struggles massively on domestic services. I think the only real exception is Italy, and also Spain (which are both very different types of market compared to Northern European domestic). Same for Wizz Air actually.