RYANAIR and LOURDES
they must be desparate to take this on.Looking in the local paper for Lourdes this weekend it says that their airport is giving FR a 75% discount on all charges.No doubt STN are also giving a huge discount as well as a start up route incentive. BUT how can this be correct.There have been charters 3 times a week March to November on this route since the new airport opened years ago.
For the last couple of years it is quite usual Mondays and Fridays to see TITAN or JET 2 and an occasional Air Med with loads of less able slowly loading up.
So this cant be considered a new route. Also why should these airports be charging full wack to the existing flights, and then giving back thousands to
FR in subsidies, is that legal ?
If the charterer of the existing flights only cancels a few flights because of the loss of his income to FR then both airports have truly shot themselves in the collective foot !
So either the clever man in Dublin is about to change his operations manual ,and his whole scheduling policy,or just maybe just between him and the airports they have got this wrong.