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Katie Williams

Ryanair cancels more flights from Edinburgh Airport to popular holiday hotspots

Budget airline Ryanair has been forced to cancel more flights to popular holiday destinations amid the spread of the Omicron variant.

The coronavirus pandemic has hit the travel industry hard with fleets forced to ground and customers facing the added cost of mandatory testing.

Now, according to the Local Denmark, Ryanair has suspended flights to Copenhagen, Aalborg, Billund, and Aarhus.

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The no frill airline will axe 28 of its 59 Danish routes in January for three weeks, starting from the 10th.

Looking at Ryanair's website, flights from Edinburgh Airport to popular holiday hotspot, Copenhagen drop dramatically. For three weeks there will only be three flights out a week from Edinburgh compared to the usual six.

All flights from Edinburgh Airport to Billund from January 10 have been cancelled for the rest of the month until February where only two flights will take off each week.

This comes after Ryanair announced they would be cutting down a third of their flights in January following strict travel restrictions worldwide and countries in Europe banning UK travellers.

The UK has been labeled as a 'high risk' country by the likes of France, Morocco, Israel and Germany.

In an annual statement, Ryanair said these decisions had hit the airline hard, saying: "The impact of these recent government travel restrictions, in particular last weekend's ban on UK arrivals into France and Germany, and the suspension of all EU flights to/from Morocco has lowered Ryanair's expected December traffic from 10-11m, to a lower range of between 9m-9.5m.

"In responding to these restrictions, Ryanair has now cut its January capacity by 33 per cent, reducing its expected January traffic from approximately 10m to 6-7m."

They added: "In light of the current uncertainty about the Omicron variant, and intra Europe travel restrictions, no schedule cutbacks have yet been decided for February or March 2022. These schedules will be revisited in January as more scientific information becomes available on the Omicron variant, its impact on hospitalisations, European population and/or travel restrictions in February or March."

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