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Dresden. Dresden loses a destination from November: The airline Ryanair will no longer offer the London-Stansted connection from the winter flight schedule. This is what Germany manager Annika Ledeboer told Sächsische.de. There is talk of the route being suspended. Ledeboer did not say whether London would be back on the departure board at Klotzsche in March, when the summer flight schedule begins.
According to the German Federal Statistical Office, a total of 9,010 passengers flew from Dresden to Stansted last winter, between the beginning of November and the end of March. The busiest months were March, November and December. In March, for example, 1,959 passengers took off. With 13 flights on offer and 189 seats in a Boeing 737-800, the average load factor for the month was around 80 percent. The country manager did not explain why Ryanair will no longer fly from Dresden to London in the winter.
Leipzig/Halle shows the best development
Dresden Airport has not yet managed to reach the old passenger volume after the Corona pandemic. According to the parent company, Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG, a total of 405,527 passengers were handled between the beginning of January and the end of June. While this was 23 percent more travelers than in the first half of 2022, it was almost half less than in the same period of the pre-pandemic year 2019.
The airport company cites the still limited range of flights as the cause. Destinations such as Cologne/Bonn and Stuttgart are now no longer on the flight schedule at all - in both summer and winter. In addition, a continuing low demand for domestic German flights is cited as a reason for the comparatively low passenger numbers. This development is a nationwide trend.
Things are going better overall at the sister airport Leipzig/Halle: 848,866 passengers were handled in the first half of the year, an increase of 48 percent. (SZ/sr)
