Hardly any other major airport in Germany has been more sparse than Stuttgart Airport since the start of the corona pandemic. The loss of low-cost airlines such as Ryanair (Lauda), Easyjet and Blue Air has left a deep mark on both finances and passenger numbers. In the 2024 summer flight schedule, 115 destinations will be offered from the state airport.

The flight schedule period for the warm season of the current year will also begin at Stuttgart Airport at the end of March 2024. After a long dry spell, the airport was able to attract a low-cost airline again, as Wizz Air will start a non-stop connection between Budapest and the state capital of Baden-Württemberg in June this year. Considering that before the Corona pandemic there were numerous destinations in the low-cost segment offered by Ryanair (Lauda), Easyjet and Blue Air, this is just the proverbial “drop in the ocean”.

Lauda staff are said to have “rejected” pay cuts

The official reason for the closure of the Lauda base in Stuttgart was that the staff was fired by management rejected the requested wage cuts. In Düsseldorf, the Lauda employees voted for it, but it was This base was also sealed and this was justified by the fact that the airport and ground handling did not want to grant any discounts. The Ryanair Group therefore withdrew from both Düsseldorf and Stuttgart in 2020.

However, the Irish company has not completely lost sight of the national airport, as it was only a few months ago there was rumbling about high fees and that even though you haven't been able to go to Stuttgart Airport since 2020. Easyjet said goodbye completely quietly in the wake of the corona pandemic. The company also had a non-stop connection to Berlin, which was abandoned, so that Eurowings now flies in a monopoly, which obviously has a negative impact on ticket prices. Blue Air is no longer active in Stuttgart for a completely different reason: The Romanian low-cost airline has gone bankrupt.

115 destinations in summer 2024

Wizz Air recently surprised people with the decision that not only individual football special lie to Stuttgart, but from Budapest from June 2024 five times a week will fly as scheduled to the largest airport in Baden-Württemberg. Given that Easyjet and Ryanair alone have given up many destinations that still existed in 2019, this is just the aforementioned “drop in the ocean”.

According to a statement from Stuttgart Airport, a total of 2024 airlines will be active in summer 29. These offer their services to 115 destinations in 34 states. The most popular holiday destinations are still Turkey, Spain and Greece. Antalya and Palma de Mallorca remain the most popular destinations. Around 26 flights are planned by the end of the summer flight schedule on Saturday, October 2024, 50.000, an increase of three percent compared to the previous year.

Eurowings is the largest provider in Stuttgart

The airline Eurowings is the largest airline in Stuttgart and offers 80 destinations. For the first time, it has Iceland in its program with Reykjavik, but also the Scottish capital Edinburgh, as well as destinations such as Manchester, the Moldovan capital Chisinau, the Romanian Iasi and Sfax in Tunisia. Anyone who loves Italy will also find what they are looking for with Eurowings, with destinations such as Bari, Brindisi, Catania, Olbia or Venice. Around the Mediterranean, Barcelona and Heraklion, Santorini and Nice are also visited.

The TUIfly takes you to Cape Verde, Boa Vista and Sal, the Canary Islands, Marsa Alam on the Red Sea or, for example, the Greek islands of Corfu and Kos. There is even more Greece with the airline Condor, which also flies to Rhodes and Heraklion, in addition to other destinations such as Hurghada, Fuerteventura and Funchal. In addition to Istanbul and Antalya, Turkish Airlines will also be flying to Kayseri and the Black Sea coast to Samsun and Trabzon in the summer. The airline SunExpress has Bodrum and Diyarbakir in its program, in addition to Izmir and Konya.

Skyalps new in Stuttgart

They are new in Stuttgart Italian airline Skyalps with a connection to Bolzano and the Hungarian Wizz Air, which will connect Stuttgart with Budapest five times a week from June. The Spanish airline Volotea returns to the flight schedule with its connection to Bordeaux twice a week and Delta Air Lines with its route to Atlanta four times a week non-stop.

In addition to European connections and many holiday destinations, important connecting hubs such as Amsterdam, Belgrade, Istanbul, London, Vienna and Zurich are also served several times a day in the summer flight schedule. This means that the state airport is connected to the global route networks of the airlines that have their respective bases there.