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Old 28th Jun 2010, 21:49
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anna_list
 
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Another protest about airport charges or something more sinister?

So to summarise:

At the end of October the following routes are not currently bookable:
Katowice - Treviso
Warsaw - Barcelona
Warsaw - Cork
Warsaw - Forli
Warsaw - Madrid
Warsaw - Prestwick
Warsaw - Treviso

In September we appear to lose:
Prague - Barcelona
Prague - Beauvais
Prague - Madrid
Prague - Malmo
Prague - Torp

Earier this year we have had:
Luton - Treviso - announced but never flown
Warsaw - Bristol - announced but never flown
Warsaw - Turku - operated from April until May
Riga - Turku - flown for about 6 weeks
Wroclaw - Bergamo - ditched last week after running for nearly a year
Katowice - Lubeck - ditched after about 6 weeks
Katowice - Pisa - ditched after about 6 weeks
Katowice - Bergen - ditched after about 6 weeks
Katowice - Weeze - started in June, ended in June
Prague - Liverpool - ditched in May after operating since last July
Zagreb - Dortmund - ditched after about 6 weeks
Poznan - Bergamo - ran from the end of March until June

We've seen Ryanair do this kind of thing so many times that it has got pretty boring, but the difference is that they always seem to have a stream of new routes and bases to open up as replacements.

So far (as far as I am aware) there has been no sign of Wizzair replacing the capacity that they appear to have been ripping out. It seems strange to see so many new routes being culled so soon after launch.

Surely if you want to protest about airport charges the trick is to move your capacity elsewhere, not to (apparently) systematically cull a large proportion of the new routes launched this year?
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