Airlines Eurowings and Ryanair have reduced flights from German airports after complaining about high fees. Now an industry association has called on the German government to roll back taxes on flights.Germany’s aviation sector called for taxes on air travel to be slashed on Sunday.
It comes after Ryanair and Eurowings recently scaled back services to and from Germany, citing high costs.
“Flying has to remain affordable,” German Aviation Association president Jens Bischof said in remarks published by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper.
“The air transport tax must be abolished. Sweden has shown the way,” said Bischof, who is also the CEO of Eurowings.
