Due to significantly increased costs in Hamburg, Condor is adjusting its schedule for summer 2025. Condor is reducing its flight program from Hamburg by 13 percent and announcing the decision to cancel planned growth at the location with additional frequencies and completely new destinations. Connections to Samos in Greece and Malaga in Spain will be completely removed from the flight schedule, while flights to Kos (Greece) will be significantly reduced. Condor had also planned to add a total of four new destinations from Hamburg with several weekly connections, thus better connecting the Hanseatic city to the rest of the world.
“We are not only cutting capacity in Hamburg, but also our planned growth in summer 2025 – a logical consequence of the threat of a completely disproportionate increase in charges in Hamburg,” says Peter Gerber, CEO of Condor. “With these significantly increased costs, we are not only forced to relocate flights from Hamburg to other locations, but also to increase prices. This is particularly regrettable for our customers there, especially as Hamburg had reliable solutions that would have prevented such a development. To date, this has failed due to the airport’s unwillingness to reach an agreement with the airport users.”
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.”
