off topic but I thought you guys might know.
A Spanish media source,Canarias7,is reporting tonight that Ryanair are about to pull the plug on sevices to Fuerteventura from September next.Here´s the piece roughly translated....
"The Assosiation blames the cabildo for the loss of Ryanair flights.
The Cámera de Comercio (Trade Association) has described as "a horrifying step back" in the promotion of tourism the decision of Ryanair to cancel the aerial links with Fuerteventura from September. Gregorío Pérez blames the President of the Cabildo, Mario Cabrera, for breaking agreements with the businessmen.
Even though Ryanair have not yet officially announced the step the Cámera de Comercio assures that the low cost flight's company is going to cancel links with Fuerteventura from September and it has laid the blame with the President of the Cabildo, for having broken agreements with the businesses over the appearance of hire car companies and hotels on the official Ryanair website.
The Association is talking about the disappearance of Ryanair routes between Fuerteventura and various European cities, among them Girona and Dublin as a result of it being impossible to buy any tickets online from the 28th September.
The president of the busnessman's collective, Gregorío Pérez, warns that "One cannot hold the businesses responsible for the elimination of the routes". The low cost airline companies have contributed to the increase in the number of tourists arriving by something like 175%, according to the associations numbers, and what the halting of the routes means for for Fuerteventura "not only the extinction of a format of tourism which diversifies the spending in all sectors of the economy, but rather the total absence/lack of means to regenerate the stagnation of economic activity."
Gregorío Pérez added that the halting of the routes "darkens" the island's economic outlook, "and with bring with it another turn of the screw as the low cost airline tourists
spend the money on a large variety of services."
People are a bit anxious here at the minute and I was wondering whether anyone had heard something?