Ryanair launches more routes from Sweden as aviation tax scrapped

Ryanair will offer more flights from Sweden, adding two aircraft to its fleet there and will consider reintroducing domestic flights following a government decision to scrap an aviation tax, the airline said on Wednesday. As part of the expansion, Ryanair will introduce 10 additional routes to international destinations from mid-2025. "Sweden is suddenly more attractive," Eddie Wilson, the CE of the group's largest airline, Ryanair DAC, told a press conference in Stockholm. Sweden's right-wing government last month announced it would end the tax on airline tickets from the middle of next year, aiming to reduce prices and boost availability. The tax was introduced in 2018 by the then-ruling centre-left government which sought to raise the cost of carbon emissions that cause climate change. Competition is intensifying in the Nordic market, with Scandinavian airline SAS in August completing a restructuring that boosted its finances and announcing a deal last week with a regional carrier to increase SAS' domestic Swedish flights.<br/>