Ryanair Beauvais
If Ryanair were to start Cork-Beauvais it would immediately free up capacity on the SNN-BVA service as many Cork students and inter-rail types use it to get to Paris cheaply.
This would be one way of upping the ante wihout being seen to undermine City-Jet.
Hopefully some government will eventually do an audit on what return the taxpayer is getting for so called marketing support at all of our airports.
Millions of euro are been given to Regional Airports which is being passed on to airlines in the form of Hello money.
The Ryanair deal at Shannon is the greatest example of this. Incidentally many of the initial routes were targeting inbound tourists but there has been a noticeable switch in recent times to bucket and shovel routes and Polish routes.