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German Tax Planning Results in Cancellation of Routes

Saturday, October 30th, 2010

Ryanair announced that it is going to cut the nine routes flights from Frankfurt-Hahn airport in 2011 in reaction of strategy made by Germany to plan air passenger tax. The German government is looking various methods of closing its budget gaps by announcing passenger tax raising and collecting the funds from that end and make them economically very strong. BDF German airlines’ association it expects 10,000 jobs to shift abroad and the strength of the German passengers reduced to 5 million per year as a result of the tax.

This extra tax implementation has changed the mind of the passengers who are traveling from one part to another. On Wednesday Ryanair’s deputy chief executive announced that this move will cut the number of passengers Europe’s biggest low-cost carrier transports from Hahn by 2.9 million. The most disastrous affect which this move is going to be showing is the cut off in large amount of jobs.

This will create a large number of unemployment in the employees of the airlines. Hahn airport, 100 kilometers west of Frankfurt was basically the US military base.

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