The huge cuts by the airline Ryanair at several airports in Spain have been confirmed this Wednesday by Eddie Wilson, the company's CEO.
The airline with the most flights in Lanzarote, covering 17% of the island's demand, announced that it will cut 400,000 seats in the Canary Islands, according to the newspaper El País.
Ryanair is also suspending all its operations with Tenerife North for this winter and in Vigo from January 1. Additionally, it is closing its base in Santiago de Compostela, so the two frequencies with Lanzarote from the Galician capital will disappear. On the peninsula, another 600,000 seats are canceled. This totals one million canceled seats in Spain.
Wilson has attributed this decision to Aena's tariff policy, stating: "It has failed the Spanish regions, whose airports are almost 70% empty of their capacity."
There will also be no flights this winter in Valladolid and Jerez, where the Dublin-based airline already withdrew its flights in the summer, ending the connection between Lanzarote and the main city of Castilla y León.
With this decision, the airport of Zaragoza loses 45% of capacity, Santander 38%, and Asturias 16%.
With the cuts that the airline had already announced previously, there will be two million fewer seats in Spain.