After a meeting with Ryanair, Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer is calling for significantly lower flight taxes in Germany. "Ryanair has rightly raised an important issue today: The excessive flight fees have long been a problem for Germany as a whole," the CDU politician told the German Press Agency after talks with the airline and Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG (MFAG).
The latest relief from the federal government does not go far enough, he said. "The moderate tax cut by the federal government is not nearly enough. We cannot compete internationally in this way - and as the Free State of Saxony, especially in comparison to Prague," emphasized Kretschmer. MFAG is now to hold further talks with Ryanair. "We want to bring Ryanair back to Saxony," he said.
