Location costs too high: Eurowings reduces offer for 2025 at Hamburg Airport

In light of the sharp rise in location costs, Eurowings is reducing its services at Hamburg Airport for 2025. As a first step, Germany's second-largest airline will remove over 1,000 flights to and from Hamburg from its programme and transfer them to other locations. Among those affected by the capacity reduction is the connection from Hamburg to Cologne/Bonn, which is particularly popular with business travelers. It will no longer be offered in the upcoming 2025 summer timetable for economic reasons. In addition to these domestic German cancellations, Eurowings is also expected to remove six other destinations in Europe and North Africa from its programme from Hamburg.

“The reduced offer will significantly weaken the direct connection to Hamburg and make flying from the Hanseatic city noticeably more expensive,” says Eurowings CEO Jens Bischof. “This development could have been avoided. But the airport's plans for a completely disproportionate increase in charges leave us no choice. It is very regrettable that no viable solutions have been offered here. The ones who are now suffering are leisure and business travelers from the region.”

In addition, Eurowings is forced to consider further route closures at other German airports in favor of flights to other EU countries in view of the constantly rising infrastructure and location costs for airlines in Germany. This is because the sum of all German and European cost burdens is making flying to and from Germany increasingly expensive and unprofitable on many routes.

Eurowings is the market leader at Hamburg Airport and currently has 16 aircraft based there. With 70 destinations, the Lufthansa subsidiary offers the widest range of direct destinations at the largest airport in northern Germany.