Ryanair will stop flying to and from Bremen in northern Germany at the start of the summer 2027 schedule, ending a service that carried around 400,000 passengers a year at the airport. Radio Bremen's news programme buten un binnen reported on 6 October 2026 that the Irish low-cost carrier had confirmed the move in writing to Bremen's economic affairs authority.
No Bremen flights from April 2027
Bremen flights from April 2027 had already disappeared from Ryanair's booking site for several days before the confirmation, according to buten un binnen and the regional paper Kreiszeitung. Ryanair did not give a reason. Its German communications chief could not be reached for comment, the broadcaster said, and public broadcaster NDR reported that the airline had not explained the booking stop when asked.
German aviation news site aero.de described Bremen as another German airport that Ryanair is leaving, noting that the airline had filed no Bremen programme for summer 2027 after a dispute over its terms at the airport.
A dispute over airport costs
According to buten un binnen, Bremen and Ryanair have been negotiating new conditions since September, with talks reportedly also involving Bremen's city hall. The airline is said to have asked for much larger discounts, which would have cost the airport company about β¬4 million a year in extra costs. Ryanair is then reported to have broken off talks at its Dublin headquarters.
The figures quoted by the economic affairs authority show what is at stake. The broadcaster reported that Ryanair aircraft at Bremen averaged around 88% load factor in 2025 and that Bremen earned about β¬3 million a year from the airline.
Kai StΓΌhrenberg, the Bremen state councillor responsible for ports, told buten un binnen that the decision was "massively annoying and should not have happened," because it affects 400,000 passengers. He said Ryanair had praised the airport's conditions as recently as March, but had now made demands that could not be met either legally, because of state-aid rules, or economically. Describing requests of up to β¬5 per passenger, he said: "That is not a negotiation. That is not serious." He added that the problem was the cost of operating in Germany rather than demand, and that the airport was already talking to other airlines about taking over the Ryanair destinations.
Which routes are affected
The Weser-Kurier newspaper listed the routes that Ryanair still flies from Bremen until the change. The current summer timetable runs until 24 October and includes daily flights to London Stansted and Palma de Mallorca, three weekly flights to Alicante and Malaga, and twice-weekly service to Zadar in Croatia.
From 25 October, the winter schedule keeps Alicante, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca and daily London flights, drops Zadar and adds Lamezia Terme in Italy on Fridays and Sundays. The winter timetable runs until 28 March 2027. After that, all of these Bremen routes are due to end under the current plan.
Lufthansa link and wider context
The Ryanair decision follows a separate agreement between Bremen and Lufthansa. NDR reported that Lufthansa announced about two weeks ago that it would resume BremenβFrankfurt flights, also after long talks about airport costs. Kreiszeitung noted that Ryanair had said it would examine that agreement closely and insisted that the same conditions must apply to every airline at Bremen. Bremen's economic affairs authority said it could not judge whether the two issues were connected, while StΓΌhrenberg argued that there was no competition between the two, because Ryanair does not fly to Frankfurt.
For travellers in northern Germany, the change means that Ryanair's low-cost links from Bremen to Spain, Italy and London remain bookable only until late March 2027. Unless the two sides return to the table, passengers will need to look to other airlines, or to other airports, for those holiday routes next summer.
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