Ryanair's Stephen McNamara said: "Ryanair continues to lower fares to encourage travel, but with passengers paying lower fares airports must lower their charges - particularly high cost airports like Basel, London (Stansted) and Dublin.
This makes no sense. Why should airports lower their charges simply because (Ryanair claims that) air fares are falling? Presumably the fixed costs that airports have are not falling too?
Basel airport should be congratulated for standing up to Ryanair's bullying tactics.