Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today announced its Summer ’26 schedule for Pardubice, delivering more choice and value for Czech passengers with four amazing routes to Spain, underlining Ryanair’s strong commitment to regional growth.

Summer ’26 schedule for Pardubice will include:

• Malaga – continuing after a successful Winter launch, now available for Summer too
• Alicante
• Barcelona Girona
• Palma de Mallorca – returning after last summer’s popular debut

This expansion makes Pardubice’s Summer schedule the biggest yet, offering passengers in Eastern Czechia even more opportunities to enjoy Spain’s sunshine – whether for a relaxing beach holiday, a cultural getaway, or to visit friends and family.

Seats for Ryanair’s Summer 2026 schedule from Pardubice are available now at Ryanair.com. Don’t miss out—book today at Europe’s No.1 airline.

Ryanair’s Head of Comms for CEE & Baltics, Alicja Wójcik-Gołębiowska, said:

“We are thrilled to announce our biggest-ever Summer schedule for Pardubice, featuring four fantastic routes to Spain. Following the success of our new Malaga route this winter, we’re delighted to keep it for summer, alongside Alicante, Barcelona Girona, and the return of Palma de Mallorca after its popular debut last year. Ryanair is proud to continue growing in regional Czechia, offering more choice, the lowest fares, and supporting tourism and local economies. We look forward to welcoming even more customers on board from Pardubice this summer.”

WHILE HUNGARY, ITALY, SLOVAKIA AND SWEDEN SCRAP TAXES, SILLY BELGIUM RAISES TAXES (5-FOLD!!) & LOSES TRAFFIC/JOBS

Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline, today (Wed, 14 Jan) revised its Brussels 2026 schedules by reducing the number of seats on offer at Charleroi by 1.1m in 2026, with a further planned 1.1m seat cuts in 2027, as Charleroi City Council announces plans for a €3 tax per pax departing Charleroi from April 2026, and the silly Belgium Govt announces a 5-fold increase in pax taxes from €2 in Jan 2025 to €10 in Jan 2027 (at a time when Mario Draghi is calling on Europe to be more competitive). These tax increases are silly when other EU countries including Sweden, Slovakia, Hungary, Italy and Albania, have abolished Aviation Taxes to grow traffic, tourism and jobs. Belgium’s tax rises will now send traffic and jobs to other, more competitive, EU countries.

Ryanair calls on Prime Minister De Wever to reverse these silly tax rises, which will damage Belgium’s competitiveness, and cost Belgium millions of passengers, thousands of flights, and thousands of jobs in tourism and support industries. While almost every other EU country is abolishing Aviation Taxes, it makes no sense for Belgium to increase pax taxes 5-fold, when these taxes have failed in every other EU State. Ryanair, which is Belgium’s largest airline, carrying 11.6m passengers to/from Belgium in 2025, will now cut this figure to (10.6m) in 2026 (if Charleroi Council goes ahead with its €3 tax plan) and will cut further to 9.6m passengers in 2027, if the Belgium Govt doesn’t reverse this idiotic 5-fold increase in pax taxes. The competitiveness of European Aviation is already being damaged by Europe’s mad ETS tax scheme, which taxes only intra-EU flights, while exempting all non-EU flights, and Belgian citizens/visitors cannot be asked to pay even more of these unfair and damaging taxes.

As many other European States have shown, taxing air travel loses traffic, routes and jobs. If the Belgium economy really wants to grow, then the Govt needs to scrap these silly travel taxes, and allow low-fare airlines – led by Ryanair – to return to growth in Zaventem and in Charleroi, instead of cutting over 2m seats, which is what we now plan to do over the next 2 years.

Ryanair’s CEO Michael O’Leary said:

“Only the Belgium Govt could be so silly to raise Aviation Taxes five-fold, at a time when Sweden, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia and Albania are abolishing their Aviation Taxes. These taxes have failed, and have damaged air travel and tourism in many EU countries, which is why they are being scrapped. In Belgium however, the De Wever Govt seems determined to fail, while others are succeeding. Having enjoyed Ryanair’s low fare growth at Charleroi and Zaventem Airport over the last 20 years, the Govt has now decided to raise aviation Taxes (by 5-fold!!) at a time, when almost all other EU States are abolishing them.

What these silly politicians don’t understand is that aircraft and passengers are mobile. If Belgium wants to tax passengers, then they simply switch to lower cost, non-tax, destinations, like Sweden, Italy, Hungary, Slovakia and Albania. Belgium’s loss will be to the gain of these lower cost, tax-cutting States.

When the Draghi Report has called on Europe to become more competitive, the De Wever Govt seems determined to make Belgium even less competitive. Raising taxes will deliver fewer flights, less passengers, less tourism, and cost thousands of jobs at both, Zaventem and Charleroi Airports. The solution to this challenge is easy: Scrap these damaging aviation taxes (as many other EU States have), and allow Ryanair to continue to grow, especially at Charleroi, where over the last 20 years, Ryanair has grown to be Belgium’s largest airline. This growth can easily be lost to tax abolishing countries like Sweden, Hungary, Slovakia and Italy, and if Charleroi and Belgium don’t reverse these taxes, then Ryanair will cut 1.1m pax in 2026 and another 1.1m in 2027, and we will keep cutting until Belgium’s silly Govt works out that taxing traffic is not the way to grow tourism/jobs, it simply sends them to other lower cost, zero-tax, competitor destinations elsewhere in Europe.”

Ryanair, the UK’s No.1 low fares airline, today (Tues, 13 Jan) called on NATS CEO, Martin Rolfe, to resign following yet another NATS ATC system failure – this time at Birmingham Airport on Sun (11 Jan) – which caused several diversions and delays of up to 4 hours for 2,000 Ryanair passengers.

This latest outage is yet another example of NATS’ continued mismanagement. UK airspace users are paying higher charges for a declining service, while passengers are subjected to repeated and entirely avoidable delays. Martin Rolfe must immediately fix the UK’s broken ATC service, or step aside and let someone else do the job.

Ryanair’s Jade Kirwan said:

“It is unacceptable that 2,000 Ryanair passengers were made suffer delays of up to 4 hours, as well as several diversions, on Sunday (11 Jan), due to yet another NATS ATC system failure – this time at Birmingham Airport. There is a clear pattern of repeated NATS mismanagement and NATS disruption – all of which is happening under the watch of NATS CEO, Martin Rolfe. This level of incompetence would not be tolerated in any other critical infrastructure. Martin Rolfe is clearly out of his depth and should resign immediately, and allow someone else to fix NATS’ failing systems and deliver the reliable ATC service that Ryanair passengers deserve.”

Ryanair, największa tania linia lotnicza w Europie, opublikowała dzisiaj (wtorek, 13 stycznia) wyniki styczniowego badania OTA, z którego wynika, że niektóre internetowe biura podróży, takie jak eDreams, Vola i Tryp, naliczają konsumentom opłaty ponad trzykrotnie wyższe od cen podanych na stronie internetowej Ryanair. Biura te nie posiadają umów dystrybucyjnych z Ryanair, ponieważ chcą nadal naliczać konsumentom zawyżone opłaty. eDreams i Vola są w tym miesiącu największymi sprawcami nadmiernych opłat. eDreams sprzedaje zarezerwowane miejsce, które na stronie Ryanair.com kosztuje zaledwie 4,06 euro, za 14,18 euro – ponad trzykrotnie więcej niż cena Ryanair, a Vola sprzedaje bagaż o wadze 10 kg za 25,00 euro, czyli o 67% więcej niż kosztuje on na stronie Ryanair.com, gdzie wynosi zaledwie 14,99 euro.

PRODUKT	EDREAMS	RYANAIR	NADWYŻKA
Rez. Miejsca	€14.18	€4.06	+249%
Priority	€27.19	€17.76	+53%

PRODUKT	VOLA.RO	RYANAIR	NADWYŻKA
10kg Bagaż	€25.00	€14.99	+67%
Rez. Miejsca	€13.00	€8.00	+63%

PRODUKT	TRYP	RYANAIR	NADWYŻKA
20kg Bagaż	£37.00	£26.99	+37%
Taryfa Lotnicza	£26.00	£19.99	+30%

Ryanair kontynuuje kampanię mającą na celu ochronę konsumentów w UE przed nadmiernymi opłatami pobieranymi przez internetowe biura podróży (OTA) i ponownie wzywa rządy państw UE (w szczególności nieskutecznego ministra ds. konsumentów Hiszpanii, Bustinduy) oraz krajowe organy ds. ochrony konsumentów do podjęcia pilnych działań w celu ochrony konsumentów przed nadmiernymi opłatami pobieranymi przez OTA. Powinny one wymagać obowiązkowej transparentności cen ze strony wszystkich OTA, zgodnie z przejrzystą polityką cenową stosowaną przez wszystkich partnerów Ryanair posiadających status „zatwierdzonego OTA”, w celu ochrony konsumentów.

Dara Brady z Ryanair powiedział:

„Styczniowe badanie OTA przeprowadzone przez Ryanair pokazuje, że eDreams, Vola i Tryp nadal naliczają niczego niepodejrzewającym konsumentom opłaty ponad trzykrotnie wyższe od cen podanych na stronie internetowej Ryanair. Mimo to nieskuteczny hiszpański minister ds. konsumentów Bustinduy odmawia podjęcia jakichkolwiek działań w celu ochrony tysięcy hiszpańskich konsumentów przed nadmiernymi opłatami naliczanymi przez eDreams.

Ryanair ponownie wzywa rządy UE i organy ochrony konsumentów do podjęcia pilnych działań w celu ochrony konsumentów w całej Europie poprzez egzekwowanie przejrzystości cen OTA, zgodnie ze standardami przejrzystości stosowanymi przez wszystkich zatwierdzonych partnerów OTA Ryanair.”

Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 low fares airline, today (Tues, 13 Jan) released its Jan OTA Survey, showing some OTAs like eDreams, Vola, and Tryp are overcharging consumers more than three times Ryanair’s website prices. These OTAs do not have distribution agreements with Ryanair because they wish to continue overcharging consumers. eDreams & Vola are this month’s worst offenders, with eDreams selling a reserved seat that costs just €4.06 on Ryanair.com for €14.18 – over three times Ryanair’s price, and Vola selling a 10kg bag for €25.00, which is 67% more than the cost of just €14.99 on Ryanair.com.

Ryanair continues to campaign to protect EU consumers from OTA overcharging and calls again on EU Govts (most notably Spain’s useless Consumer Minister Bustinduy) and National Consumer Authorities to take urgent action to protect consumers from these overcharging OTAs. They should insist on mandatory price transparency from all OTAs in line with the transparent pricing being delivered by all of Ryanair’s “Approved OTA” partners, to protect consumers.

Ryanair’s Dara Brady said:

“Ryanair’s January OTA survey shows that eDreams, Vola, and Tryp continue to overcharge unsuspecting consumers by more than three times the prices quoted on Ryanair’s website. Yet still, Spain’s useless Consumer Minister Bustinduy, refuses to do anything to protect thousands of Spanish consumers from this eDreams overcharging.

Ryanair again calls on EU Govt and Consumer Protection Authorities to take urgent action to protect consumers across Europe by insisting on OTA price transparency, in line with the transparency standards applied by all of Ryanair’s approved OTA partners.”

Ryanair today (8 Jan) welcomed three judgments from the Hamburg Regional Court, which ruled that eDreams’ presentation of prices misled consumers.  The Court found that eDreams displayed airline seat and baggage prices without clearly disclosing its own additional fees and that its claimed savings through its “Prime” service could not actually be achieved by consumers.

In its rulings, the Court stated that eDreams’ “price display for seat reservations without disclosing the additional fee… is in any case misleading” and further noted that this constituted “a misleading practice by omission.”  Regarding checked baggage, the Court found eDreams had been “misleading about the service fee,” and in relation to its Prime product the court held “the announcement of the concrete savings… represents a misrepresentation… since the specifically stated savings cannot actually be achieved.” (by consumers).

These judgments confirm that eDreams’ approach to pricing is “misleading”—a practice that sets it apart from most other online travel agencies such as Booking.com, Lastminute, and Kiwi, all of whom have adopted Ryanair’s price transparency standards.  For access to fares that are not “misleading”, we encourage all customers to book directly on the Ryanair.com website, or through one of our approved OTA partners—where consumers always see the true, accurate Ryanair price.

Ryanair’s Dara Brady said:

“These Hamburg Court decisions reinforce what, Ryanair has long advocated – transparent pricing for consumers.   Despite Ryanair’s repeated objections, eDreams continues to scrape our fares and overcharge consumers.  eDreams remains the only large OTA that refuses to follow the transparency standards already adopted by Booking.com, Lastminute, Kiwi and others.  Ryanair has offered to provide eDreams with free, direct access to Ryanair’s inventory — should they wish to compete on a level playing field – if/when they adopt the same transparency standards as their main OTA competitors, and desist from “misleading” or overcharging consumers.”

MISMANAGMENT BY ATC PROVIDERS DENIES THE FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT FOR EU CITZENS

Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (Thurs, 8 Jan) published the table of “ATC GRINCHES” that ruined Christmas travel for over 600,000 Ryanair passengers during the festive season. This comes after over 3,200 Ryanair flights and 600,000 Ryanair passengers suffered avoidable ATC delays over the Christmas travel period (22-31 Dec) due to ATC staff shortages. Spain and France were by far the worst performing ATC providers this Christmas, accounting for 34% and 31% of delays respectively.

Such an excessive volume of ATC delays at one of the busiest travel weekends of the year – during which many passengers are travelling with young families – is not acceptable.

Ryanair has repeatedly called for EU ATC reform, but Ursula von “Derlayed-Again” ignores these ATC delays/cancellations which restricts freedom of movement for EU citizens simply due to ATC providers failure to plan for the right number of ATC staff. Ryanair calls on all EU passengers to visit the ‘Air Traffic Control Ruined Your Flight’ webpage and demand that Ursula von “Derlayed-Again” take urgent action to reform the EU’s broken ATC services to minimise delays for EU citizens.

Ryanair’s CEO Eddie Wilson said:

“It is unacceptable that 600,000 passengers suffered avoidable ATC delays this Christmas as a result of staff shortages at ATC centres across Spain, France, Portugal and Germany. With Spain and France top of the” ATC Grinches” list. Passengers should be able to travel around Europe without suffering hours of unnecessary ATC delays and cancellations.

When will Ursula von ‘Derlayed-Again’ and the EU Commission stop sitting on their hands and deliver real ATC reform to protect passengers from these completely avoidable delays? Ryanair has long called for urgent reform, yet the EU continues to allow these disruptions to happen year after year, especially at peak travel periods. We urge all passengers affected by these unacceptable delays to visit our ‘Air Traffic Control Ruined Your Flight’ webpage and email their transport minister to demand action. Enough is enough – Europe needs ATC reform now.”