Originally Posted by
flyingmed
Even just 1 month of doing this. They could simply show the money made across their network in different bases and then show the loss which would be made in Eindhoven. Would that then become enough of an economic problem to close the base?
Lets hope this doesn't happen but we all know Ryanair will be there to 'win'
That would probably require a judge how's blind, daft and suffering from alzheimers. It would be exceedingly easy for the other party to make the case, that any losses sustained at the base was a direct consequence of them having umpteen crewmembers sat around doing nothing, whilst having crew from other bases doing the flights. Keep in mind a judge has already heard the case where Ryanair was unable to make their points stick. Them coming back saying 'look, we're losing money now' would probably not, as they say, fly in a court of law. It would be even harder for Ryanair to prove EIN is loss making, when all they've done is reverse the flights, effectively still serving the market. Ryanair's only hope would then be to completely shut down all flying to/from EIN - an airport which by all accounts is turning them a healthy profit. THEN they could lay off all staff, but obviously only in accordance with Dutch law as has been outlined previously in this thread.