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Sorry but that is total nonsense.
If Bournemouth airport offered airport fees including handling and security charges FREE for those months, you would be operating.
What a mess the airport has gotten themselves in. Now they are completely screwed! On two levels:
1) Ryanair have publicly stated they are the 'only' airline that can offer year round viable links from Bournemouth, and have vowed to come back with a 'full timetable'. Talk about staking your claim on the airport... This will totally disuade other carriers from now stepping in.
2) Ryanair are using BOH as a bargaining chip for lower airport fees and UK APD/Tourist tax. The airport could have averted being used in this way by taking Ryanair more seriously. After all they are the airport's number one airline in terms of volumes. Ryanair volumes have a serious positive impact on the revenues that the third parties in the terminal will make such as restaurants, shops, travel agents, car hire etc...
This is a complete disaster for the credibility of Bournemouth airport.
The ONLY other airline that could possibly make routes work from Bournemouth would be easyJet. They would want CERTAINTY that Ryanair wouldnt be coming back as the market is far too small for two major airlines.
And what does this now mean for the arrivals hall? Will it be 'paused'? Like it was in 1980! I still cannot believe that the airport has portacabin arrivals and a £45m departures.