Airport Weeze (Niederrhein)

German defense company Rheinmetall has broken ground on an F-35 center fuselage assembly plant.

Asturias-Amsterdam is one of six routes the Spanish LCC has scheduled to launch over the coming months.

The new service will compete with SkyUp and Ryanair on a city pair basis.

Ryanair expects to shut bases in Spain and Italy over the coming months, adding to closures already announced in Germany.

Ryanair has more than quadrupled its capacity offering from Central and Eastern Europe over the past ten years with an average annual rise of 38.9 per cent between 2006 and 2015, according to schedule data from OAG. This has been to combat the emergence of Wizz Air, which over the same period has established itself as the largest carrier in these emerging markets.