Don't think CAA are losing the
PR battle.
It has come across quite clearly on the various threads here and in the press that FR's allegation for the withdrawal of routes because of an increase of 20% in airport charges was false. Rather FR had not read the big print of ORK's route incentive scheme.
I note from the local press in Cork today that FR attempted to change tack and tried to lay the blame not on ORK's route incentive scheme but on the fact that ORK was not independent from the DAA and therefore not free to set its own airport charges.
Not sure about the soundness of this argument. In any event this was a belated attempt to remedy a
PR blunder in Cork.