Tourism board not worried about Ryanair route cancellations

Monday, March 14, 2022

As per a report by ECO, Luís Araújo, says that the Irish company compared to 2019, is having more conspicuous presence now and that most routes serve to take Portuguese people abroad.

In the summer, Ryanair in Lisbon, has cancelled routes to Madrid, Malta, Birmingham, Palermo, Tenerife and Krakow along with 19 others. These happened, according to the company, because the Government did not release the “unused” slots held by TAP at that airport.

From the Government, this decision hasn’t yet received any reaction nor from TAP. However, the president of Turismo de Portugal, says that for tourism, the consequences will be few. “Still, Ryanair has 26% more [presence] than it had in 2019”, says Luís Araújo, in statements to ECO. In addition, “most of the cancelled markets serve much more to take Portuguese people abroad than to bring foreigners here”.

Even though he mentions that “it is always worrying when airlines change their strategy”, the official notes that, based on the weight of Ryanair and the fact that they are outbound routes, tourism “continues to have good prospects for the future”.

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