Ryanair to cut 11 Polish routes

Ryanair confirmed today that it would be cutting eleven routes from the UK to Poland next month. The move is in response to an "unacceptable increase in navigation charges" in Poland which have increased almost 1000 fold in some cases.

Since Poland joined the EU in 2004, passenger numbers at the countries top 6 airports has almost trebled to 20 million passengers last year. However over the past year almost 20% of the UK and Ireland capacity has been removed from the Polish market due to softening demand. Recent months have seen demand fall even further with Sterling weakening against the zloty.

The routes to be cut are Bristol to Gdansk, Katowice and Szczecin, Liverpool to Lodz, Gdansk and Szczecin, East Midlands to Lodz and Poznan, Birmingham and Luton to Szczecin and Bournemouth to Wraclow.