{"id":468659,"date":"2026-10-20T17:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T15:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/10\/20\/il-belgio-aumenta-le-tasse-per-laviazione-di-5-euro-ryanair-taglia-20-rotte-su-bruxelles\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T17:44:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T15:44:25","slug":"belgium-raises-aviation-taxes-by-5-euros-ryanair-cuts-20-routes-to-brussels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/10\/20\/belgium-raises-aviation-taxes-by-5-euros-ryanair-cuts-20-routes-to-brussels\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium raises aviation taxes (by 5 euros), Ryanair cuts 20 routes to Brussels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels \u2013 More taxes to pay? Fewer routes to offer passengers. This is the equation put forward by Ryanair and its chief executive, Michael O\u2019Leary, in response to the Belgian government\u2019s plans to review tax policies affecting airlines. In <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.ryanair.com\/news\/ryanair-cuts-20-routes-over-1-million-seats-from-belgium-w26-schedule-due-to-govts-250-aviation-tax-hike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>a press release with a dismissive tone<\/b><\/a>, the well-known low-cost carrier has announced the cancellation of 20 routes to and from Brussels in protest against an increase of just a few euros in airport charges.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"it\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">\u201cThese cuts are <strong>the direct consequence of the federal government\u2019s<\/strong>&nbsp;stupid&nbsp;decision to increase the aviation tax in Belgium by 250 per cent,\u201d reads the group\u2019s statement, which launches a direct attack on the government. This decision is driven by a matter of principle: a refusal to pay the taxes, which \u2013 as Ryanair itself has pointed out \u2013 are set to rise from 2 euros in January 2025 to 7 euros in January 2027. A mere pittance for a company that <a href=\"https:\/\/investor.ryanair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Ryanair-2026-Annual-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports \u20ac15.5 billion in revenue&nbsp;for 2026 alone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels \u2013 More taxes to pay? Fewer routes to offer passengers. This is the equation put forward by Ryanair and its chief executive, Michael O\u2019Leary, in response to the Belgian government\u2019s plans to review tax policies affecting airlines. In a press release with a dismissive tone, the well-known low-cost carrier has announced the cancellation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":468640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25774,30806],"tags":[26119,25801,26204,31044,29971],"class_list":["post-468659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-brief","category-mobility-logistics","tag-transport-aerial-en","tag-belgian-cat-en","tag-cup-in","tag-ryanair-en-2","tag-taxation-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468660,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468659\/revisions\/468660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}