Will Ryanair Save the West?
In Galway today MOL announced 8 new routes for SNN and spoke of the huge spin off for tourism in the West.
Many existing routes are being dropped or suspended including SNN-East Midlands which was omitted from the press release.
Hard to see any net benefit for SNN or the west in all of this despite the spindoctoring in the media by Ryanair and Shannon Marketing.
Since launching the base in SNN in 2004 Ryanair has gradually switched from inbound tourist routes to outbound sunroutes and routes catering for Polish and other East European workers.
All this will do is undermine many of the routes out of Galway although Aer Arann is far from the expected pushover on Cork Dublin.