Ryanair has cancelled its planned five-year agreement at Barcelona Girona airport, resulting in the closure of 18 routes.
The airline said the new government of Catalonia refused to honour an agreement with Ryanair which had been announced in December last year.
As part of the agreement, Ryanair agreed to base 11 aircraft at Girona, operate 64 routes and deliver four million passengers per year.
However, from the end of this month, the airline will reduce its Girona operations by five aircraft, close 18 routes and reduce the frequency of 17 other routes.
This will lead to about 100 fewer flights per week. The airport’s traffic from Ryanair will fall from four million to 2.3 million passengers per year.
The budget airline claim the “new government has refused to honour the agreement despite being consulted on it by the outgoing government”.
Speaking in Barcelona, Ryanair’s Michael Cawley said the company “sincerely regrets” the government’s failure to honour the extension agreement.
However, he added, “While this is a significant loss for Girona, Ryanair will continue to grow at other lower cost airports in Spain and elsewhere in Europe.”
Routes cancelled from the end of this month include: Aarhus, Dusseldorf Weeze, Gdansk, Hamburg Lubeck, Ibiza, Kristianstad, Lanzarote, Lille, London Gatwick, Madrid, Oslo Torp, Perugia, Plovdiv, Poitiers, Seville, Szczecin, Tenerife, Vasteras.
(Fonte : http://businessandleadership.com/business/item/28428-ryanair-cuts-18-barcelona/)
The airline said the new government of Catalonia refused to honour an agreement with Ryanair which had been announced in December last year.
As part of the agreement, Ryanair agreed to base 11 aircraft at Girona, operate 64 routes and deliver four million passengers per year.
However, from the end of this month, the airline will reduce its Girona operations by five aircraft, close 18 routes and reduce the frequency of 17 other routes.
This will lead to about 100 fewer flights per week. The airport’s traffic from Ryanair will fall from four million to 2.3 million passengers per year.
The budget airline claim the “new government has refused to honour the agreement despite being consulted on it by the outgoing government”.
Speaking in Barcelona, Ryanair’s Michael Cawley said the company “sincerely regrets” the government’s failure to honour the extension agreement.
However, he added, “While this is a significant loss for Girona, Ryanair will continue to grow at other lower cost airports in Spain and elsewhere in Europe.”
Routes cancelled from the end of this month include: Aarhus, Dusseldorf Weeze, Gdansk, Hamburg Lubeck, Ibiza, Kristianstad, Lanzarote, Lille, London Gatwick, Madrid, Oslo Torp, Perugia, Plovdiv, Poitiers, Seville, Szczecin, Tenerife, Vasteras.
(Fonte : http://businessandleadership.com/business/item/28428-ryanair-cuts-18-barcelona/)
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