Ryanair to Halt More Tallinn Flights this Winter
Budget airline Ryanair has confirmed that it will be putting significantly more Tallinn routes on winter break this year than last, leaving only its London, Oslo and Milan connections open for the season.
Services to Barcelona, Bremen, Dublin, Düsseldorf and Stockholm, all of which had been operating last winter, will wind down in late October and early November, as will those to Manchester and Frankfurt.
In August, similar, larger-than-usual seasonal reductions in Ryanair flights to Finnish airports had fueled speculation that the same would happen in Estonia.
Elina Hakkarainen, Ryanair's sales marketing executive for the Nordic and Baltic region, told ERR News that this year's additional cuts were related primarily to rising world oil prices, which are preventing the company from being able to offer cheap winter fares.
She said the winter cuts were not related to any specific problem with Tallinn and that the airline hoped to resume its previous Tallinn connections next spring.
A Tallinn Airport press representative told ERR News that the seasonal reductions in RyanAir's schedule were "nothing dramatic."
Steve Roman