The airline previously cut flights to Spain and other destinations in Portugal, citing increased taxes and airport fees.
Planning a budget trip to the Azores? Your options for getting there may soon shrink.
Ryanair says it will cut every route to the islands from March 2026, blaming rising airport fees, new taxes and what it calls government “inaction” in Portugal.
The move would end the carrier’s year-round connections between the remote Atlantic archipelago and major cities such as London, Brussels, Lisbon and Porto.
According to Ryanair’s Chief Commercial Officer Jason McGuinness, the rising costs leave the airline with “no alternative” but to shut down its Azores services and redeploy aircraft to lower-cost airports elsewhere in Europe.
The carrier says six routes and around 400,000 annual passengers would be lost.
