{"id":8772,"date":"2025-12-12T16:11:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/ryanair-threatens-to-axe-20-routes-from-belgian-airports-in-ongoing-feud-against-aviation-tax-hikes\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T16:11:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:11:01","slug":"ryanair-threatens-to-axe-20-routes-from-belgian-airports-in-ongoing-feud-against-aviation-tax-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/ryanair-threatens-to-axe-20-routes-from-belgian-airports-in-ongoing-feud-against-aviation-tax-hikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair threatens to axe 20 routes from Belgian airports in ongoing feud against aviation tax hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n         Published on<br \/>\n            <time datetime=\"2025-12-12 15:35:43 +01:00\">12\/12\/2025 &#8211; 15:35 GMT+1<\/time>\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"--widget_related_list_trans: 'Related';\">\n<p>Ryanair has threatened to axe 20 more routes across Europe amid its raging war against rising taxes and access costs.<\/p>\n<p>The budget airline slammed the Belgian government\u2019s decision to increase its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2025\/11\/18\/singapore-reveals-worlds-first-green-fuel-tax-on-flights-how-much-will-europeans-have-to-p\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>aviation levy<\/strong><\/a>to \u20ac10 per departing passenger from 2027 for short-haul flights, arguing that such a move will collapse demand and send air fares soaring.<\/p>\n<p>In a fiery statement, Ryanair also criticised Charleroi city council\u2019s proposed plans to introduce a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2025\/12\/12\/ryanair-threatens-to-axe-20-routes-from-belgian-airports-in-ongoing-feud-against-aviation-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 12\/12\/2025 &#8211; 15:35 GMT+1 Ryanair has threatened to axe 20 more routes across Europe amid its raging war against rising&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}