Ryanair is to reduce its operations in Austria siby a million seats, withdrawing five aircraft based in Vienna, eliminating onem seats, and cancelling nine routes for the summer 2026 schedule. For instance, Germany has lowered its air traffic tax and frozen navigation fees, prompting Ryanair to add 300,000 seats and eleven new routes there for summer 2026. As Ryanair is now forced to relocate five aircraft, nine routes, and onem seats from Austria for summer 2026, Austrian air traffic, which is still below pre-Covid levels, will now fall even further. Vienna Airport now predicts that traffic in Vienna will decline by 10pc in 2026, while ‘Hopeless’ Hanke does nothing. If Austria does not follow this example, it will continue to lose traffic, tourism, and jobs to its more cost-effective neighbours like Slovakia and Italy.