July 21, 2009
Irish airline Ryanair said on Tuesday it would cut winter flights at London’s Stansted Airport from October, blaming high taxes and charges.
Stansted is the biggest hub for Ryanair, Europe’s largest budget airline, with more passenger traffic than in Dublin, the home to its corporate headquarters, where it has also imposed cuts this year.
Ryanair will reduce the number of aircraft based at Stansted in the winter to 24 from 40 this summer. Last year it operated 36 aircraft from Stansted in the summer and 28 in the winter.
Ryanair has long criticised British airport operator BAA, a unit of Ferrovial, as well as Irish operator DAA, for their high fees, and the two governments for levying what it calls “tourist taxes”.
“Ryanair’s 40 percent capacity cutback at London Stansted shows just how much Gordon Brown’s GBP10 pound (USD$16.4) tourist tax and the BAA monopoly’s high airport charges are damaging London and UK tourism and the British economy generally,” Ryanair said.
(Reuters)
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July 22, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Hello,
O’leary also announced cuts from Dublin Airport and Preswick airports. I think that Ryanair is starting to feel the effects of the crisis, and the days when O’leary was in talks for 300 aircrafts are long over… but we’ll see
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2520916.0.ryanair_to_cut_flights_from_prestwick.php