Fear of Ryanair?
Is it possible that the presence of Ryanair at Derry airport, while being the main driver of passenger numbers, is also the main constraint on numbers?
In other words, is it possible that the failure of the Airport management to get other airlines to establish other routes is due to a fear of competing with the might of Ryanair?
Manchester and Edinburgh would seem very obvious routes, Manchester having previously been successful from LDY, and Edinburgh which together with the currently successful Glasgow route is one of the main Northern Ireland destination airports, and yet no airline seems interested.
Ryanair operate to both these destinations, but having so far failed to show an interest, one would have thought that other interest parties might and yet nothing!
Fear of Ryanair?
Now if Ryanair themselves, or indeed anyone else, were to establish Manchester and Edinburgh routes they could timetable them with the existing Liverpool and Glasgow routes in such a way as to offer a day traveller a method, albeit circuitous, of getting to Liverpool/Manchester and Glasgow/Edinburgh and back to LDY on the same day.
Last edited by Amelia Earhart; 17th May 2009 at 20:13.
Reason: Typo