Originally Posted by
Pain in the R's
I wonder how many Ryanair routes would be lost if airports had to turn a profit or if Ryanair lost its route subsidiary? In many cases a loss making European airport requires a longer journey than using the main regional airport and serves no real purpose.
What examples are you thinking of? This sounds like an outdated stereotype. Warsaw they only serve a secondary airport but not sure of any others.
They are big at Bergamo but that has an enormous catchment and isn’t particularly any more distant to Milan than Malpensa, which they also serve.
They are still at Hahn but that also has a big catchment and until recently were at FRA too.
Weeze arguably isn’t really Düsseldorf but again has an enormous catchment regardless.
Ciampino is very close to Rome but they serve both.
Girona is a shadow of what the base was but really serves Costa Brava.