MAJOR airways have axed eight routes from Scottish airports to a number of European locations as a part of cost-cutting measures.

Ryanair will do away with 5 flights from Edinburgh Airport and one from Glasgow Prestwick as a part of its plans.

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This contains routes from Edinburgh to Carcassone, Nîmes and Poitiers in France and Santiago de Compostela in Spain and Turin in Italy, and Glasgow Prestwick to Marseille in France.

Loganair will reduce flights from Inverness to Birmingham and Inverness to Dublin and has suspended its route together with Dundee to Kirkwall and Aberdeen to Oslo.

It blamed “tender market situations” and rising prices.

Making the announcement, Ryanair stated: “These six routes is not going to be carried ahead to the Summer time 2024 season.

“Nevertheless, Ryanair’s Scottish prospects can nonetheless get pleasure from low fares to the widest alternative of thrilling locations when reserving their summer time 2024 getaways.

“To make sure that Ryanair continues to supply passengers low fares on an thrilling and numerous vary of routes, we undertake seasonal route evaluations to make approach for the event of probably stronger and extra common routes throughout our community.”

It comes after Scandinavian Airways introduced it withdrew its Edinburgh to Oslo service amid a restructure.

Sweden and Denmark routes will proceed to function and the provider stated it could reintroduce the Norwegian service in future.

The airline filed for chapter safety in america, with Air France-KLM taking a stake within the enterprise.