Irish budget airline Ryanair has announced it is cutting its Berlin Brandenburg Airport service by 20%, citing high airport fees. Flights from the airport to Riga and five other cities will be cut as a result. "These cuts will reduce Ryanair's Berlin-based fleet from nine to seven, resulting in the loss of six routes: Brussels, Chania, Kaunas, Krakow, Luxembourg, Riga, as Europe's largest airline redirects capacity to lower-cost EU destinations such as Italy, Poland and Spain," a statement on Ryanair's website said. The statement did not specify when flights from Berlin to the six airports would be discontinued, but added that "the announcement follows several warnings from Ryanair that Germany will lose a further 10% of Ryanair capacity in the summer of 2025 unless the German government can amend the recently increased 24% aviation tax (and eventually repeal it), address the rapidly rising air traffic control fees (+100% since 2019) and postpone the 50% increase in the maximum security fee (from January 2025)." It was previously reported that among airlines at Riga Airport, Latvian national airline airBaltic has the largest market share, with 57%, while Ryanair has 25% of the market.