Ryanair CEO says Germany is losing out because of high airline fees | DW News
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- čas přidán 12. 01. 2024
- The CEO of Ryanair Michael O'Leary is pointing to high fees for flights coming in and out of Germany. Starting in May, the ticket tax is set to increase by almost 20%. While the German government anticipates additional revenues of €400 million per year, the aviation industry is resisting the hike. O'Leary joins DW to talk about Boeing, his company's market share in other countries, and what the war in Ukraine means for Ryanair's expansion in Eastern Europe.
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This CEO has said the same thing about Belgium and Netherlands when closing some bases there. They still fly to all these destinations.
just a overpayed CEO talking to make pressure. These persons shouldn’t have a say how countries make their policies.
@@lazyb0y828 well they clearly dont otherwise he wouldn't complain like this.
@@simonhuber2018 well, they still get tax free gasoline.
He also says this every 4 months. I get it, his company is losing profits but he’s acting like RyanAir flights are an indicator of the state of the economy. There has been a long anticipated push towards reducing unnecessary air travel and converting that to train travel. RyanAirs numbers don’t say anything, he’s just mad he’s losing profits
@@lazyb0y828 overpaid ? Ryan air is the busiest low cost in Europe.
"Not coming back"? They are still there. According to Ryanair's own website, they offer flights to and from 14 airports in Germany.
I think it was in regards to the pre pandemic numbers of travelers.
He is a clown. Its as simple as that.
He is referring to future investment and routes. They are contractually obliged with existing routes due to the slots they have agreed to take up at the relevant airports. You'll see routes being discontinued (unless they are highly profitable) and they wont start new routes or increase the frequency of existing routes. This is what he means. No airline can suddenly stop serving a country (unless due to war) due to contractual obligations or penalties.
@@nntflow7058Berlin is! And some people would consider the Oktoberfest in Munich as the biggest party on planet earth.
@@GermanGuy007So Germany is proud of just ONE party a year, lasting for about only 3 weeks? LOL!
And BTW the by far biggest party on planet earth is the carnival in Rio.
Take it easy Germans! He said same thing in Denmark and stayed away for some months while flying people to a small local airport in Sweden instead but people wanted to land in Copenhagen and not a field in the middle of nowhere. The man is a businessman, he are trying to apply political pressure and let´s be real here. The condition of the atmosphere and it´s carbon content are more important than this guys wallet.
He even mentioned Copenhagen as a positive growth for Ryanair. In 5 years he is probably mentioning growth in Germany because of some regulation in UK
Agreed. The way he talks about wanting to double traffic to Germany, seems clearly to be adding significant increases in carbon emissions, the opposite of what is wanted.
Fact of the matter is, that Europe would be an excellent testbed for electric planes (when they are available), as it consists of so many short haul flights. If the taxes are less for electric aircraft, that will be an step in the right direction.
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Yup he says this every few months because his company isn’t the profits he would like to. Not considering that reducing unnecessary air travel that can be done by high speed rail is the entire idea to making air fees more expensive. Long flights won’t change much but the 20€ flight from Frankfurt to Cologne Bonn are hit hard, for good reason
The "carbon footprint" scam is getting everywhere, it's insane. CO2 does not change the weather, people are brainwashed.
By "Germany is suffering" he really means "my company is suffering in Germany".
Who do you think uses Ryan Air? Of course consumers are suffering with increased prices.
And by "suffering" he means" not making as much profit as I want."
Because the company pays the taxes? Nope, the consumers end up paying it.
Did you even listen? How do tourists get around?
@@RazorMouth plenty of alternatives.
Country doing something right when Michael is complaining!
How you can look at this and think Germany have the right idea… you are choosing to be blind
@@jamiejosh96because RyanAir’s numbers say nothing about anything. Converting unnecessary short flights between cities to train travel is on of the bigger plans in Germany. These fees target exactly these flights of 20min like from Frankfurt to Cologne/Bonn airport. It’s useless carbon emissions when you might as well take high speed rail.
He’s just mad his company doesn’t get the profits from short distance travel in Germany anymore.. ridiculous to think that means anything is done wrong
@@ja_u so funny you say that. I was in Hamburg yesterday. How many cities can I reach within 2 hours on the train?
Also it’s not only domestic, all the examples he gives are from international flights
Spain, Greece and Portugal rely heavily on tourism. Germany does not, hence his comparison is as intelligent as claiming apples and tractors are one and the same as both can be found on a farm.
I never understood why one company I worked for sent me on Ryan Air or Easy Jet. Business travel should be comfortable, relaxing and with a good standard of service.
@@stephenbaxter3369 there's nothing stopping anyone from upgrading themselves to a higher fare on their own dime :^)
@@rudiruttgerwhy? Is it me or the company that wants me to travel somewhere?
@@marcd6897 they provide you a seat with business expenses. anything extra you may of course attain with your own money at your discretion
With their industry stagnating, it is also not really smart to close themselves even more, they should instead diversify and be more open and friendly to tourism. Not making themselves even more dependant on a stagnating industry sector.
If Ryanair pulls out, I'd be quite happy if WizzAir takes over the market. I much prefer their A320(neo) than Ryanair's 737 (Max)
WizzAir (that is indeed a great airline) is bound to the same math as Ryanair.
Haha wizzair is 10 times worse
@@amiLli257 That's your opinion, not a fact. I fly WizzAir quite a lot and never ever have any problems; and my latest tickets were cheap also (€22 for a return flight all costs inclusive whereas the Dutch passenger tax alone is already €29,05)...
@@janvanhaaster2093 Agree. 83€ to go from Spain to Baku, Azerbaijan with stop in rome and back is unbeatable. And 24€ spain to london and back. Unbeatable
Wizz is a much nicer experience. Nicer staff too. Seats recline.
Didn't fly with Ryanair since 2019. Have no regret 😂
haven‘t flown!
I think your wallet would disagree
Never have, never will 😮
I dont think the bottle collecting pensioners of Germany would have the same opinion
As obnoxious as he is, low-cost air travel in europe is an essential. It's a long distance bus in the sky. It keeps people moving, lets people study and visit places, they'd never go to otherwise, and lets people work in higher wage economies and bring their earnings back. These are services that enable a lot of international economies and industries. You can tax and try and force people onto trains, but getting 1500 miles in 3 hours in the sky, is a lot easier than spending 20 years building a train track that may never even get finished.
Rail networks are an option in certain places, and make sense at short-medium distances, and even long distances on the TGV etc. But air travel isn't this evil that the governments make it out to be.
His airlines don’t want to pay for the airport and traffic control systems. He wants the German taxpayers to cover the costs so Ryanair can make higher profits.
But even if the taxpayer does subsidize that, won’t Germany make that money back tenfold in tourism and other travel?
The simple fact is that even people who don’t like Ryanair continue to fly on Ryanair because people like low prices. Germans miss out by not having access to such low cost airlines.
Ryanair is the cheapest if we haven’t Ryanair then you have to pay double for others
That fine if germany wants to isolate itself from Europe. What is the point in germany being in Europe??? You might as well have a gerxit
German taxpayer lol ??? they didnt want comeback to ur country lol
The taxpayer is already paying the taxes, is never the company. He is actually arguing that this is bad for consumers. If you don't believe it, next time you book a flight check the price breakdown of the flight, the taxes are insane.
Ryanair built a Base in Billund Denmark, but moved out when they were forced to pay fair salaries...
He left Denmark completely with the same threat as he uses above but he are a businessman and came back. That man applies political pressure but it are empty.
@@Mike-zx1kx He dident leave Denmark tho? They still have a base in Billund and are opening a base in Copenhagen, right now.
What does "fair salary" mean? Prices are dictated by supply and demand.
@@ViktorFromDK Yes, he did!. As written he left and came back. It did not last long and that are my point to the Germans. He WILL try to politicise but if you just maintain your rights and laws as you please, he will be back, if leaving, because his preferred way of making money, are transporting people by air!
@@quasii7 Not in this part of the world, thankfully! McDonalds tried to act like if the were in USA when they came to Denmark. Strikes and lock-outs taught them reality here. Now they pay "fair" salaries in Denmark and still makes a decent profit, if not a great profit!
Uber tried and managed to get many employees in Denmark, while ignoring their taxi service, where not following Danish law while operating a taxi service! Uber are not in Denmark anymore and a long row of convictions in court of law became the consequences for those illegally acting as Taxi´s, without upholding Danish law in this area.
A lot of low level jobs in USA are right now vacant. Have been for a while to an extent that some low level restaurants and supermarkets have to close or reduce open hours because of lack of employees. If salaries decided by supply and demands, as you falsely claim, then WHY are these low level jobs not seeing a steep salary rise in USA right now? ONLY way these jobs are getting higher minimum wages are when the government make laws raising them!
If you want to look at successful business/employer markets it are those that are successfully regulated that serve their nations best. Where the state and business together work to ensure that there both short and long term are qualified people to employ while they then again are paid a "fair" salary, again making them able to pay taxes to the state that also cover free education for these workers and their offspring, as they use the educational system etc.
So supply and demand dictated solely by supply and demand are the recipe for a humanitarian societal disaster. The nations where this are practised are my proof. Should ANY job be allowed to exist if you are not able to have a small home and deal with feeding yourself and be able to get the necessities to live, if you as an individual are working a full time job? NO! It should not! Successful nations understand this. 3 richest men in USA are Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Elon Musk. These three people make more money than the 160 million on the bottom of the American "society". Supply and demand my xxs. Jeff Bezos would not last a month in the job types his mean worker conditions "provide". I have never ordered anything from Amazon for that very reason. I will give you that much that I am trying to reduce demand by not buying. But how many political consumers do you have in USA? Not many it seems!
Germany...HIGH TAX COUNTRY....what a shame.
Was there a condition in this interview that they weren't allowed to use the word 'Max'?
It’s wrong because Ryanair is being prevented from ripping Germany off?
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What about German consumers? They benefit from cheaper flights.
@jonesyjones7626 it is zero sum game.
German tax payers will have more money because they will not subsidaiz foreign company.
@@jonesyjones7626someone has to pay the airport security. If you don't want to include those in the ticket price it means that the costs will be covered by the tax payers. Means: even people who don't fly pay for airport security. I don't think this would be fair.
Ripping them off??? Ryanair prices are rock bottom
Why did the reporter pretend to read his little notes at the end and avoid eye contact 😂
Ryanair want the German taxpayers to shoulder the costs rather than the airlines. Some countries have caved in to these demands, full marks to Germany for telling them to get lost.
I’m sick of hearing CEOs complaining about taxes and money.
Germany needs to tax more and more, so the green government have more money to share it around the world. For the German people Nothing. Bitte arbeite.
I am sick of him too.
Let me get my tiny violin to play to Michael O'Leary's tears
Do you have any hint on how the European society functions? Commerce is right there in the foundations of it. Only greens wanna vanish it.
as long as Germany inhabits a well earning, well spending middle class, companies will find ways to make make money no matter how high the taxes. Its easy to blame governments as they rarely see a reason to justify or explain themselves to a few companies.
Ryanair just announced Frankfurt-Hahn To Budapest flights for the summer today…….
German Government back tracked on their air taxation policies maybe!
Ryanair flights to Germany are few and far between. When the Greens are thrown out, business will be back. Ryanair will go where the deals are.
Instead of a social democracy, Germany is a tax democracy.
The video's title makes it sound like Germans might be universally sad to see Ryanair leave. That's decidedly not the case.
Not for the green rich people
One does not need to be one of "the green rich people" (chuckle) to dislike Ryanair's business practices and untruths. Good riddance.
The sad thing is that he's right in principle - taxes and regulations in Germany are becoming more and more insane every year. And while I couldn't really be bothered about having Ryanair service it's just a matter of time until other businesses get tired of the political chokehold and will leave the country, too - taking their jobs with them. We're at a point where the current political marching direction becomes a severe risk for the wealth of the general population.
100% ich komme aus Barcelona...und die Steuer hier in Deutschland sind krass. There's a moment is better to go to another place to work. One thing is taxes, another is a robbery.
Yes, it's time to leave Germany. That's the bitter truth and nothing but the truth :(
Strange. Since the new goverment i have 1200€ more each year. And in german tax means Steuern and Steuern means to steer, so the goverment will steer the society into the future not into history. And a lot of businesses who went abroad do not exist anymore.
@@DavidKuver The thing is though, that you actually get something for the taxes. Me having lived in many different countries in Europe have to sadly admit that of all the options the services I got in Germany especially healthcare were by far the best, and in fact taxes are not that bad, it is the rather interesting situation of splitting up social security and taxes that makes it seem that way. When it comes to digitalisation of course the country is stuck in the 2000s though but the welfare state is pretty good for the most part.
@@Mackaiin Healthcare and most services are actually cheap. The social system and pension are the reasons for high taxation. Germany is becoming less competitive every year thanks to that.
Seriously? That airline would charge the passengers extra even for seat belts and toiletries, and he wants government to cancel taxes and service charges for everything 😂
Not true. The point is the German government is very keen to overly tax for infraructure it does not provide
Jets operate where governments don't build bitumen ribbon.
@@adamanthony7465 Airports are subsidised a lot. Just abit less than abroad.
I have flown with Ryanair I think twice in my life..and I don't plan to in the future..so I'm safe I guess..
Never understand this approach. They fly modern clean planes on time, safely and at incredibly low fares. What is it you are looking for from an airline?
@@marviwilson1853well said. Not only that, Ryanair have almost single handedly brought competition and prices down for customers of other airlines. Where I live, Ireland, Ryanair have caused Aer Lingus the national competitor to slash their ticket prices. The OP benefits from Ryanair in cheaper ticket costs with other airlines. Something the OP probably hasn't quite grasped.
The issue of the damage to the environment is a separate point. I accept people's valid concerns there, all airlines are terrible for the environment.
Another CEO wanting lower taxes (more profit). Living in the US, a country that is being stripped for parts by corporations and equity funds, I am not sympathetic to that message.
What are equity funds??
Lower taxes is always bad and its funny how he is selective when first comparing with the rest of Europe, then only listing the ones with lower taxes. Why not using the Nordic countries in his tax example?
The airline taxes in Sweden are 5,5 euro (64 kroner). In Germany at least 12 euro, up to 60 euro.
In short, not all taxes are high in Scandinavia. Stay on topic please
"I'm not talking about Venezuela, I'm not talking about Cuba, I'm looking at Scandinavia" lol
@@henricussilvanus4332 You are int he wrong comment or then your earlier comment got deleted.
No. Taxing goods and services is always wrong. Taxing profits and incomes is the way.
Has anyone ever enjoyed flying with Ryanair? Its always been an expensive inconvenience for me.
Never had any issues.
If it’s expensive you can’t be very intelligent.
If you book Ryanair in advance and don’t take suitcases it’s incredibly cheap, the most expensive part of the trip is the car parking.
I fly with a number of roof airlines.
If I fly a flag carrier it’s double, triple+ the price, plus cancellations and delays are the norm, I never get cancelled flights with Ryanair air or delays.
@@user-tt6il2up4o he has to pay for a sandwich so it's a bad airline 😂
@user-tt6il2up4o thanks for the unnecessary insult....variable pricing.....hidden costs.....unfriendly staff....old planes...oh and of course delays..... twice bitten...etc. I fly a lot but not with them. Easyjet KLM and even BA before this lot.
@@ponypong261 Old planes ?!? Ultra low cost airlines have the youngest fleet.
Why not let us check how much Ryanair pay to its CEO and board members? Tax is the only causing Ryanair not make profits? Seriously?
O’Leary made 2.3 million last year. (Overall) of which 1.2 million base salary)
As a german I didnt even notice they left. Honestly don’t gonna miss airplanes with no space and full of vomit.
He said the exact same thing about Portugal but his company has to fly somewhere, i guess
I'm sure Germany will miss LyingAir😂😂😂
Germany is the largest country in Europe with the biggest and diverse aviation market. It would be commercially nuts for Ryanair to restrict itself out of that. Ryanair would not be what it was today if it was purely flying Irish tourists around Europe. I hope Germany keeps firm, Ryanair will be the first to blink and (as others have said) the airline still flies there.
Who said anything about only flying Irish tourists across Europe?? They fly Italians to Spain, Spaniards to France, Austrians to Greece, Brits to Madrid, Dutch to Sweden… etc.
It's based in London. It doesn't just fly Irish tourists. And Germany isn't the largest country in Europe.
@@DaChaGeeit is by population, which is the most important metric in this case
@@stascht7116 OK. But by population, Germany is third.
@@DaChaGee you forgot to count all the Rajeets and Muhammads
I don't get the leaving / not returning part. I see flights from Cologne and Weeze (Düsseldorf) to Marocco in Q1 and Q2 of this year. Ryanair has not 'left Germany'. What is this about?
He is just complaining about taxes and hopes that Germany will reduce the taxes because of the interview 😂
@@sollte1239 Flights to Marococco are not so heavy taxed, it's a political goal to reduce short distance flight and especially inter german flights. For places like Marocco there is no alternative to flights
Check BER airport. Ryanair flights almost vanished.
alright thanks for the info but Berlin ≠ Germany @@karlosb964
They have closed bases in Hamburg and Frankfurt Main for example. Aircraft numbers in bases like Berlin and Cologne have been reduced since Covid.
So the government caring about the environment is wrong, alright then... This guy needs to get a grip
He's doing what he's paid to do as a CEO. Why would anybody expect different. Regardless, 200 million customers and happy shareholders, he's got something right!
Has anyone considered that Germany might be trying to reduce the number of flights in and across the country?
This strategy will increase passenger traffic on trains, maybe that's the plan!
Except that they don't invest in train either and the train in Germany are not reliable anymore, so much so that Switzerland is banning German train companies from their country because they mess with the schedule.
Plus, I live in the south of France, if I want to visit Germany, I am not gonna take the train (and I wanted to visit the country last year but went to Prague instead because of air fair)
oder es will keiner mehr diese UNGLAUBLICHE firma names RYANAIR benutzen.Wie lange war der HYPE?¿
@@Bb13190 you're one of those who talk much and know little. The new government is investing heavily in railway infrastructure. That again is one of the reasons for German trains to be delayed more than before. But it isn't that big of a deal to come some minutes late. That happens in planes and cars just the same. Especially in France where the state is robbing the people with tolls.
Prague is a beautiful city and I'm pretty sure there are better reasons to visit it than because of the fact that your flight costs 19 euros, instead of 29. And I don't think Germany is missing out much when stingy people go to other places, because they don't have the 10 Euros to pay the flight to go to the places they actually want to visit. 😂
@@mariokringsthe majority of trains in Germany arrive late.
@@metalboostable Of course there is a lot of traffic, but what is late ? 1 minute? 5 minute? 30 minute? 60 minute? At what point is being late justified when u reduce 1000% of the environmental pollution that cheap flights cause within ur country?
The same thing is/was going on in the Netherlands, and they threatened to start flying more from Germany and Belgium...
When I was in school, the teacher every day accused us we were the noisiest and most chaotic class. I talked to the neighbour class and found he was saying the same to them.
We do not need such business leader in Europe.
@@krollpeterThankfully irish people wont be visiting germany as you all sound like a right jolly bunch - not
@@traceymarshall5886 Keep your Ryan. And your Ed Sheeran.
I want the "old" airlines back with reliable schedules, and fixed prices. Not companies who think about standing seats and charging for toilets in planes, and customers are treated like lost luggage.
@@krollpeter ed sheeran is not irish. Unfortunately Mr. Ryan passed away many years ago. We are very happy with ryanair...its how i visited 65 countries. You are welcome to opt for €700 one way flight from berlin to dusseldorf for the "service you wish" but you wont be able to fly much further outside germany if you opt for that
@@traceymarshall5886 I see a similar distorted view onto the world as the Brits had with their Brexit.
Go your ow way with your Ryan and your Banks.
We were looking to visit Germany in December but the prices of flights was insane! So we went to Switzerland and France instead, the flights were a fraction of the cost. Whatever you think of Ryanair, this man’s right
Yep, that is why you fly to Kopenhagen, Amsterdam, Basel, Salzburg or Vienna. You get to Germany from there quickly. I recommend checking out all those airports too.
The cost of living there might be just outweigh the initial addition and costs. He will see.
You are right. Germany is a degenerated country, making bad choice after bad choice. The green taliban in Germany is responsible for closing the nuclear power plants, in favor of... coal and lignite.
Germany dooesn't want poor tourists....
You went to Switzerland because of flight costs? It is a high cost country. Ryanair is a terrible company.
£742 one way from Edinburgh - Munich for the football in June, Ryanair is missing out
O’Leary operates a discount air carrier. So they skimp on amenities and bicker every fee increase that comes at them. That is a given with low airfares operators. Just as it is a given Walmart squeezes its suppliers, and force employees to go to the government for health care, food stamps. .
He pulls out his slots, someone will move in, for as long as there is money to be made out of Germany routes. There always a next discount carrier , or a rebranded Carrier with striped down amenities.
And passengers will take the bait and then complaint about it.
This videomiscall about people nagging.
Is it ok to you to pay more for tickets?
You forgot to mention the "Incentives " he receives and often demands from Regional Governments to start or remain flying to airports in Tourist destinations ( example Girona , Spain ) . The Man is full of HOt air .... devious and full of schemes to squeeze anyone he can . Be they employees , pax . Governments .
Oh no. I'm so devastated now.
Funny what tourism in Germany
The October fest? No need for German tourists they don’t spend a penny ! They don’t have way to have fun when on holiday! Long live the Brits!! They know what holidays are!!! Salute from Greece!!!
There should be a song made about him, "The Irish grifter"... 🎶Sell my grandma if there's a dime for me 🎶
Ye a grifter who runs the worlds most valuable airline , silly comment
A Ryanair flight to Germany is a flight to France and then a bus anyway isn't it?
TBH, he’s one of the smartest CEO’s over the last 20 years. Just look how he’s built and led Ryanair from virtually nothing to one of the biggest carriers and most financially successful in the world. Check out the annual reports for proof.
Funny how so many people take what he says literally. He means their flight volumes, number of people flying with Ryanair in and out of Germany won't come back to what it was before Covid. Of course, he knows that they're flying to Germany now. He's the freaking CEO of the biggest airline company in Europe.
No Ryanair and no more O'Leary in Germany. A good idea so let*s go for it!
He closes the canary islands, Netherlands, Germany, Wants to reduce capacity in Ireland. Hes going to run out airports to pull out of
Lol CEO of airline ask for fewer taxes and more growth. 😂
Ryan Air wants it cake and to eat it too. It keeps its cost down by skirting fair living wages to its non union employees. It wants quantity over quality.
"No no no. What are you talking about? We don't have a a dominant market position in Italy!", after he just revealed Ryanair has a 40% market share, and earlier boasted about that there will be a lot of growth in Italy.
He's not even a good conman. XD
Yeah, 40% would make him the biggest player in italy, but I think he's absolutely right to point out that that pales in comparison to the market share Lufthansa has in Germany (close to 75-80%)
@@sdci2 Basically all he's saying there is "I also want a monopoly in Germany, but someone better beat me to it!".
As for Lufthansa / Eurowings dominance; it is in part because they offer a good service, with well serviced aeroplanes, and in part because companies like Ryanair are unwilling to pay the environmental taxes and such, saying that they will be unable to make a profit.
(which they would be able to, just less than they would like!)
The last time I was in a Ryanair plane, I was worried about the lack of maintenance the plane got. There was a 2 hours delay, because a mechanic had to come in from an other airport, to fix something.
And the turning radius was huge, because the pilots clearly didn't want to push neither the engines or the steering flap mechanisms.
My next flight was Eurowings, and that was a well-oiled machine.
To be fair, I don’t know much about changes Germany is doing but anything that hurts Ryanair, I am in. Terrible airline who treat their employees and customers like cattle.
Extra flight tax (for climate) on top of VAT. So now tickets costs roughly between 15-70€ more. It’s ridiculous.
Edit: not for climate but for security
So...does this means you're gonna give ubi to their unemployed people?
@@tengokurowhat? To who? And Germany doesn’t have UBI.
@@naszadynastia it really doesn't. They prey on poor people with the promise of cheap airfares. Sure, tickets are cheap... but they charge for everything, luggage gets lost, you get stranded and have to find a hostel... and in the end, you spend just as much.
This fellow lowered cost and pass onto customers. This man is simply unleashing market demand.
Knowing the Germans they'd rather get better customer service & customer care by paying a little bit more in any case.
Germanwings sells very reasonable tickets & they fly directly into London Heathrow. I don't know what it costs now but I did it for £40 from Germany before the pandemic.
Looked at Bristol to Berlin, cheapest I could find at the time for that week was £276.. I was shocked, as before Covid I could get to Berlin for as low as £30!
I know several Germans who throw "RestMüll" (unsorted garbage) into Plastic garbage bins because the latter doesnt cost to be cleared to save money (I am talking about 3 Euro maximum). Germans have created the impression that they care about customer service, but from their construction projects to Services like trains you can see time and time again that it's all but an illusion. The average German doesnt like change (hence bad card payment system, poor internet speeds) and gets angry when it gets pointed out.
@@youtube_user4422Bristol will be cancelled anyways soon
It's Eurowings not Germanwings
@@youtube_user4422 You can still fly from London to Berlin at 30.
Definitely Germany is heading toward Recession. About 60 big German companies moved to Ohio US, and other are moving out,
Business doesn't like instability and pro green ideology when Germany sometime ago did not have electricity for 5 days haven't leaned them a lesson yet when deciding to close atomic plants....
Production need stable power go ahead Germany that means more business in Central Europe....
Why should Germany lower Air Traffic Taxes. Except for the fact that Germany has a lot of Airbus employees in Germany, Germany gains nothing from more air traffic. And Ryanair even uses Boing plans and doesn't pay the employers a lot of money. So good riddance....
Germany doesn't need tourism from other European countries.
Putting Airbus's engine issues (that are maintenance related) at the same level as the Boeing's door that explode during flight is preposterous
I don't buy that. Both companies are cutting corners badly. How about the pain issues with Airbus? To name a few.
@@saiyedakhtar3931 whut? not at all. The paint issue has been rectified and was never a big problem in the first place. Boeing has more problems in a week compared to Airbus in a whole year.
@merzto United Airlines flight grounded after pilots alerted over potential door issue-but it wasn’t a Boeing plane and many other headlines say otherwise. Both companies are cutting corners.
@@saiyedakhtar3931 there are faulty sensors every day. Normally it wouldn't ever make the news. Airbus aren't costcutting they are increasing investments into production as there is a hughe demand for good aircraft. Boeing is strugging as they haven't turned a profit in the last 5 years and just fire the expensive (experienced) people while hiring new staff without any knowledge.
@merzto I've experienced both, and I don't trust the quality of either to be frank. Quality for both has gone downhill over the past decade, and post covid, both are just accidents waiting to happen. Airbus has major engine issues with the Rolls Royce engines. Emirates has refused to buy more A350s due to the issue. Look at the latest technical bulletins, and I see a sea of issues with both. Boeing just has bad PR. The difference now is that the US is just now getting its supply chain issues sorted out. Airbus is still suffering from supply chain issues. This will impact sales down the road. As for me, I'll say a prayer before entering either aircraft and wish for a magic flying carpet instead.
And Germany breathes sigh of relief. 🙏🙏🙏 can they get it in writing?
He didn't mention Norway... same thing as in Germany ;)
We have Eurowings, so good riddance?
Compared to Ryanair, Eurowings has better maintenance, better service, happier employees, no endless added fees for even the most common things.
Very funny, eurowings is expensive, poor routes and not value for money..
Eurowings also charge these days, even the big hand luggage cost 15€ extra.
@@ABCD012331 That's a shame. I loved the 30 euro flights, with everything stuffed into a hand-luggage. :p
And sometimes they even crush with you into a mountain.
@@ScapestoatAre you laughing about €30 flight with hand luggage as a complaint, or you're happy? Your message is not clear to me.
Germany's economy isn't built on tourism so they don't need it as much as Spain, Italy or Greece. German government wants to avoid what happened in Barcelona, Amsterdam, Venice etc, where tourism negatively impacted locals, and changed the housing market to short-term rent (like Airbnb), which resulted in increased rents for people living there and crushing the housing market. They're happy with the local tourism and try to prevent overtourism (especially low budget). One of the reasons I haven't been to many German cities, but understand the decision.
The German travelers will not avoid to travel to Spain, Greece, Italy... etc. these travelers have to pay more to travel to the same destinations with other airlines mainly from magor airports that will be congested and the small airports will be completely closed therefore many unemployed people in the small/medium cities....
Also cause there is no city In Germany that can attract as much tourism as Barcelona, rome, Venice , Lisboa or florence. Why going to ostsee when can you go to Mediterranean spots, why going to Bayern when you can go to Dolomites, why going to Spreewald when you can go to Gardasee?!?! lol also for weather reasons
@@yassirkhay True, however Germany is a pretty wealthy country so people can usually pay 50/60€ instead of 20. In the total holiday budget, it's not a big difference. Airports will not close, Germany has the advantage of not being centralised like the UK with London or France with Paris. They have multiple 'main' agglomerations, and their airports are doing well and will do quite well. There still are quite cheap flights anyway, but not as ridiculously cheap as to Spain or Italy. This brings the tickets to a similar level to trains so people can swap to a more sustainable travel mode. The condition of the German rail is a different discussion tho
@@igor9468That‘s very right.
He will be not happy even if regulator makes it mandatory to give a passenger a free cup of water.
It's so sad, all the prices are so high
Like the Germans are bothered. It allows Lufthansa to maintain their stranglehold on the market.
Bulgaria is cheap for tourism and taxes
A lot of remote foreign workers as well
Definitely worth visiting ❤❤❤🇧🇬
He lied about scraping being illegal. In Germany the highest civil court (BGH) said it’s legal because it gives consumers choice. They can better compare offers.
He said it should be illegal not that it is, and in the initial example he spoke about Italy
"Germany is facing a crisis in is air travel industry" is just a Business way of saying: Germany is disincentivizing flying. Is that really such a bad thing? Methinksnot
Make a space in the market and someone else who passes the fees to customers will fill it.
They still owe me money.
What does he say about oeing and the weak Boeing aircraft and the inability to have reasonable quality control on manufacturing aircraft that Ryanair are buying?
Ryanair has had to double the number of Ryanair engineers it employees itself at the Boeing factory just to oversee quality.
This man doesn't understand that the German government does not want cheap air traffic. It is insignificant regarding the size of the economy but has a major share in the national pollution statistics.
Plane loads of tourists who will spend loads of money in German cities. What are you on about?!
Start paying your employees properly.
I doubt Ryanair will be missed. Not the best airline to fly on.
The only airline with affordable prices actually. Why should I spend 350 euro on 2 hours flight when I can flight with Ryanair for 35?
For me that's just a transport.
Keeping in mind that DB just does not work. So, low cost Airlines is the only choice in Germany at the moment.
Ryanair is the best for short haul. Great value and they fly everywhere
Germany doesnt know anything else besides increasing taxes instead of cutting costs, simply due to the surreal burocracy
If it’s more expensive for Ryanair it’s more expensive for all the other airlines, so expect all German flight prices to increase
So the current german government is not just destroying the industrial sector but also the tourism sector
How did DW turn into a RyanAir PR outlet? You have this guy on every month at this point!
That’s what I’m wondering.. They have this guy give the same exact interview every few months at this point.
And it’s also not even an actual problem, these changes are targeting short distance flights which RyanAir does a lot of, in order to move people to train travel instead for a much much lower carbon footprint. It’s not a fail, it’s designed to be this way. Him complaining means it’s working, that’s goood
People need to stop pretending like Ryanair and other airlines "have to" operate in Germany or have to "pay their fair share"...they don't, if the prices keep going up, they'll keep pulling further out. These companies earn more than enough to not have to care.
There will be others filling the gap. I don't think they will give up their marketshare in the biggest economy of Europe.
And next up France, and then Spain and before you know it, Ryanair isn't flying anywhere anymore because they don't agree with having to pay taxes.
Tui fly and Eurowings will stay in Germany. Yes they are expensive but on the other hand we can also go on holidays in Germany or travel by car or train to places in Europe . There is no need for Germans to fly out of Germany.
@@sollte1239no need to fly out of Germany. You gotta be kidding. If there is one country where people like to go on vacation abroad it’s Germany.
@@baddoopey Yes but if Tui still wants to make money with it, Tui will take care that Tui fly or the Turkish planes will still be payable. And many Germans also stay in Germany to go on holidays.
You sure it's because of high fees and not because of high safety standards? Ryanair is a joke
People who are saying that he's just in it for the money... You are quite correct. He chose the path of a business man and that is what he is good at. Well done to him for keeping an airline going through hard times! Airlines are one of the most challenging businesses to operate due to extreme competition and low margins. I'm pretty sure that all of the people who have complained about him, have used Ryanair at one stage in their life, got to their destination, and, at a fair or low price. If you say the service was bad or complain about anything else, expect it because of the low fairs. Otherwise, be prepared to pay the premium and go on a legacy airline.
Ryan Air needs lower fees because without tax and fee subsidies and exemptions (and under paying its workers), its business model simply doesn’t work. It ultimately gets its profits from tax payers.
But actually, this is not true.
It CAN actually make profit without lower fees and exemptions, the problem is that the profits would be smaller than they think they deserve.
Tax the airlines, subsidise the trains.
Goodbye Ryanair, you won’t be missed.
Yeah tax my ticket daddy🥵
I wanna pay 200€ return only flights
That's the point though - if their market share in Germany is not replaced by someone else (which is not happenening at the moment), they *will* be missed. Unless you're arguing purely on emotion, if a former Ryanair flight between Bremen and Riga is not replaced by another airline, you can't say that it "won't be missed". For the regular and opportunistic passengers on that route, it WILL be missed.
How will taxing the air travel will solve the poor state of train travel? They do not compete. The market does not overlap as train does not and will not cover the same travel routes!
Also, train travel is already heavily subsidized, but still not working, if you want to kill one industry you first have to find another viable alternative, and the solution is not making traveling possible only by people who can afford high train or plane tickets.
@@fede0101yeah this argument is just daft a Spaniard is never going to go on a trip from Madrid to Athens by teain for a week holiday
@@fede0101 I've taken the train before for routes that could be done by plane. Like Cologne to Rome
Ok, that could be an explanation… I live abroad and hate it that the cost for a direct flight to Germany is still 6 times (!) the price of pre-pandemic levels. If I am lucky. Can easily be 10 times as high for a direct flight.
So you are paying now 120 instead of 20 Euros? Without numbers it‘s difficult to know if you are getting screwed or not.
@@GermanGuy007 Something around that ballpark. It was 35 - 45 for direct flights. Now, it is more like 200 - 300+, if you can get a direct flight at all, which is very rare now. Otherwise, you have to stop by e.g. in Athens for 12 hours or so. Or have to book business flights, which is even more expensive. (I am talking about standard flights, though. Can be that you can find something that is a bit less expensive, but then only for special dates, or by spending the amount you save in working hours researching flights). Let's put it this way, it is quite a difference unfortunately and that you are almost not able to book the usual direct flights anymore does not make it more appealing.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. Now that is understandable to me!
I admire the man but I’ll never fly Ryanair. Also remember, he flies First Class on real airlines, not cattle class on his own.
To all the people of Germany,
Do not worry! He has said the same about Belgium a couple years ago because of strikes!! 😂
Ryanair sucks. Nobody wants to fly on a plane where every surface is plastered with advertisement stickers and the airline separates your family to different parts of the plane. 4 flights with them and I never got to sit with my wife and kid.
Ryanair flights are very brief. If you get separation anxiety during that period, perhaps travel is not for you.
@@shirtlesslager Yeah, well excuse me if I'd rather sit with my family than some dude who smells like your profile pic looks.
So pay up ,they are popular for a reason they are cheap
If there is a country that invests heavily in the train infrastructure so that the trains run on time, then yeah, there's no need to take a flight. But German trains are infamous.
This country you are speaking about is China.
And you know what? Germany is behind in Train traffic aswell, and car traffic is also lacking behind wich sucks
He said the same to Denmark, went back 5 years later.
Rather than flying with his company, I'll walk, thank you very much!!
Uncomfortable squashed seats, feeling harassed to buy anything, not really cheap once you add the mandatory optionals..... Not even reliable!!! Stop whining man!
The whole idea is to fly less, planes arent as climate friendly as trains currently. We dont want people to use planes when the train is just as viable to use. People using city hoppers plane flight to go from Amsterdam to Berlin makes no sense if there is a direct high speed train connection that could do that in the same amount of time. Currently it takes 6 to 7 hour travel by train due to lack of a direct route. this could easily be lowered. The plane takes 1.5 hours but that is excluding boarding time and custom checks which requires you to be at the airport 2 hours in advanced. add that up and your at 3.5 Hours. if the train could lower it to 4 to 5 hours time then that would be a direct competitor to plane travel. and we need to ban subsidizing kerosine fuels within the EU and subsidize hydrogen instead. so that train travel cost can compete with plane tickets.
RYAN air only cares for profit margin it doesn't care for alternative methods of transport which can be more efficient and thus more cheap.
@@Klote3241 If you actually think that the current rail system in Germany can compete with flying you are delusional. I have nothing against making planes less frequent but environmentalists need to get out of their echo chambers and actually take a look if somthing is ready to be implemented before doing it
@@Sike55 Like i said, there needs to be a viable option for direct train connections between the major cities in Europe. We have the technology to do it and we have the money to invest. it is more a matter of political will. Unless plane travel actually becomes green i see no other option then to upgrade the current rail network between the main European cities. Amsterdam/Brussels/Berlin/Paris etc etc.
The idea should be flight time that is currently lower then 2 to 3 hours (excluding boarding/custom) should be done by train and the train should not take more then 4 to 5 hours to complete that trip
This is the guy who wanted to delete one of the lavatories on board then charge passengers to use one of the two remaining!
@@Klote3241 I can count the times I used plane to get to a destination and back again on one hand. When I needed to go to Paris two years ago I first checked train connection. First thing: living in the second biggest town of my German state which is not far from the French border, der was no direct train connection to Paris. Not a single one. DB always needed to route me over other big cities, often in other states, with various changes of trains, partly with only a few minutes to get from one train to the other, meaning with DB's punctuality a higher chance to miss it than to get it in time. And when we are talking about time, it would have taken me *6 to 9 times longer* to get there compared to plane - although there wasn't a direct flight either, I would have needed to get to the next bigger airport 80km away (in the opposite direction), by train, and still going by train alone would have taken up to 9 times longer. While also being more than *3 times more expensive.* With a booking system that requires a decade of studying. My best option by train would have led me to a German city which is further away from Paris than mine and which by itself is 140km away from me. Counting in the energy consumption of a train this would have made this environmental friendlier option far less environmental friendly than it should be on paper, especielly when taking into acount that DB does not only use green energy and a good portion of electricity was (and still is) produced by burning coal at that time. And there's no point in wasting that much time, your own energy and (over) stretching your nerves if you safe just a tiny bit of CO2 if you really do the maths.
Could this easily be lowered? Not with German bureaucracy and not without cutting new railways through forests and nature reserves. While Germany already IS failing their duty in preserving natural habitats and not meeting EU specifications on that subject - Germany has a lot of nature reserves, but they are simply to small.
Due to the pandemic and the demand DB wanted to revive railways they've been given up over the past decades, they weren't even able to do *that.*
On paper maybe it's easy, in reality it is not. Trains are by far too expensive to become a viable option and for longer domestic trips even the Deutschlandticket is too bad, as it takes 1 to 2 extra days if you want to travel from the north to the south or vice versa. Even if you are lucky and use one of the 12 long distance traffic connection included. If not, you might as well end up wasting half a day travelling from the west to the east. It's still a good idea, but still too limited.
I ended up using a bus - it was the cheapest option and in theory would have taken far less time to reach Paris (while in reality the bus came two and a half hours late to my town because it was stopped at the Austrian/German boarder due to some covid regulation issues. Which sucked if you wanted to use a night bus and are stranded at a dead main stration in the middle of the night... still was the less time consuming option than going by train). The train connection to the airport was too bad, although it connected the two biggest cities of the state which weren't too far away from each other. Trains prevented me to flight, but not by giving the better option.
People complain about Ryanair, yet it’s the most popular airline in Europe by far. It revolutionised air travel across Europe. People will complain, but probably still use them. Because they don’t talk BS, make it fancy or act like they need to treat customers any better than a bus company. It’s an A to B ticket. Get on, get off. End of story. Stop complaining.
That's the problem with high taxes, for some the sky is the limit!
thankfully not all we need is airflight traffic. Also funny how air traffic control and airport security and services should apparently best work for free or something like that, ...
He's not wrong flying in and out of Germany is much more expensive than any other country in Europe
30€ return from Malaga on Ryanair to Memmingen airport.
and how much germany pays to LAZY europe ?¿
The question isn't what it costs. The question is if it's worth it.
If you’re flying long distance these changes won’t be noticeable. You only notice them when flying short distance inside Germany or short distance from a bordering country, and in those cases you can take a train as well (this needs to be expanded but the plans are already underway for better European rail-connections)
Big city airports yes because they often do not have ryanair flights. Regional airports all over the countries allow you to travel to docens of destinations all over europe for usually less than 30€ both ways
😄😅😂🤣He kept saying that the German government, keep raising taxes. ie. input cost to his airline is getting too high to offer cheap airfare to grow his business in Germany. Therefore he is NOT going to increase capacity to Germany, but will do so to other European countries that reduces his business cost. It is a simple business strategy, keep cost down to keep airfare down, and people will choose Ryanair to fly. It's a No Brainer 👍💪🤠😎
Ryanair has never left Germany as the quote might suggest. This is unserious journalism.
"Lower fares in Italy" - 300€ for a return flight he means? Ridiculous..
I used to fly to spain all the time for less than 100 euros. You could find vueling or ryan air flights for 30 euros all the time. Now you have to pay 250-300 euros from Germany to Spain and only a few airlines offer flights so they can charge you that much.
I just looked up Ryanair Memmingen - Malaga, 30€ return flight…….
same, just booked Memmingen - Valencia for 15 euro with Ryanair 😊
Losing out is is not what comes to mind when not having Ryanair
Best comment!
you are indeed losing out on cheaper airplane tickets
@@askeladd60 I really don't see why I should care if my plane ticket is 9€ or 50€ if I travel three times a year it costs me more to uncheck all tickboxes on ryanairs website for the extras that makes it not less expensive anyway and as a country Ryanair used to be a bad employer as the contracts didn't even contain required sick days which could end up making pilots unemployed and costing money for the society. So at the end the cheap tickets are only a selling point for big companies that profit from it and they shouldn't do that on common cost. So having no cheaper tickets is great!
I regularly fly between Baden Baden and Stansted - and the RyanAir flights seem pretty full to me. Of course I don't know how much of that remains in RyanAir's bank account.
Air travel companies need to be taxed more if you look at the damage the industry does to the planet we all share.
The government could lower taxes AND set up a fare cap like maximum of 50€/hour of flight so Ryanair and others can't outrageously inflate prices in peak times and pocket enormous profits. It has to be a fair game. High speed train should improve so it brings some competition as well.
In Italy Milan-Rome was the busiest route for Alitalia (now ITA Airways), since we had high speed train that takes 3 hours from city centre to city centre, the landscape has changed.
Your idea is incompatible with the 'modern' German politics of ecosocialism. Germany's economic future is not about growth, but about de-growth and there is no need for cheap flights as the future population is slipping in by rail or car and an people leaving Germany are not wanted. High speed trains within Germany will be available in 2138, since there are some endangered salamanders that need to be resettled first.
Price caps? 🤣 like the 40s?
@@benchoflemons398, read again and you might recognise, that the TO spoke about a fare cap, not about a price cap.
In current Germany, there are caps since decades like for example the maximum contributions to public health insurance.
The people buying last minute tickets for hundreds of Euros are subsidising travel for the rest of us who book in advance. Why would we want to cap prices?
@@andrewharris3900, said again, just read what the TO is writing: FARE CAP, not price cap.