Ryanair is by far the largest airline serving Europe. The ultra-low-cost carrier plans 3,840 daily round-trip services in the peak summer month of July, up by 6% year-over-year. One in every six of Europe’s short-haul flights are provided by Ryanair.

Each week, airlines from around the world submit schedule changes to Cirium Diio, OAG, and so on. This encompasses everything, including new routes, markets that have been eliminated, increased or reduced frequencies, equipment swaps, different operating periods, and more. In the latest update, Ryanair revealed that 17 routes that were due to resume in July have been suspended until October.

Ryanair Further Suspends All Flights To Jordan

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The pan-European giant has flown to the Jordanian capital of Amman for eight years. Since then, Cirium data shows that 2,767 departures have been scheduled, which makes it Ryanair’s second most-served Middle Eastern destination after Tel Aviv. It last flew to Israel in 2025.

Due to the ongoing war in Iran, Queen Alia International Airport (AMM) is the only Middle Eastern airport to which the ultra-low-cost carrier plans to fly in 2026. Analysis shows that it last did so in mid-March, with the previous plan to see the airline return on July 3. Given all the uncertainty of the conflict, this was, effectively, a placeholder schedule.

The latest update indicates that flights to AMM are not now due to resume until October 25. That’s when northern carriers, including Ryanair, switch to winter schedules based on IATA slot seasons. Any ceasefire or escalation might change the plan again. Fellow ultra-low-cost carrier Wizz Air’s return to AMM is due to take place on September 22, although it only has one route.

Ryanair Has Suspended These 17 Routes (Again)

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They are summarized in the following table and shown on the interactive map. The map allows readers to highlight specific routes, zoom in and out, and to see what equipment and frequency was planned for each airport pair.

Given many secondary airports for big cities, head-to-head competition from October onward is minimal. Cirium shows that it will only exist on four airport pairs: Budapest Liszt Ferenc international Airport (BUD; against Wizz Air), Bucharest International Airport (OTP; Dan Air and TAROM), Madrid Barajas Airport (MAD; Royal Jordanian), and Vienna International Airport (VIE; Austrian and Royal Jordanian).

As usual, direct competition increases at the city level. Five city markets are involved, with Royal Jordanian serving Brussels Airport, Milan Malpensa, Munich, Paris CDG, and Rome Fiumicino. Eurowings flew from Stuttgart to AMM until earlier this year, while Transavia France had Paris Orly-AMM flights until 2024. When direct and indirect competition is combined, just over one in two of Ryanair’s 17 routes will see another airline from October (52%).

Hang On: Poznan To AMM?!

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The table and map show a good mixture of routes. For example, who would have thought that Poland’s fifth most populous city of Poznan would have nonstop service to AMM? But it does. Ryanair flights have existed since November 2021.

In 2025, Ryanair had 11,900 round-trip seats for sale between POZ and AMM. Booking data suggests that it filled 10,400 of the available capacity, for a seat load factor of 87%, which was lower than the carrier’s average.

As usual, it is about the fares needed to achieve that result. But as flights have now existed since 2021, it is clearly happy. If it wasn’t, the route would have ended long ago. Ryanair is renowned for ending routes that do not perform well enough. Incentives probably help, although they’re likely to be much lower after five years.