Not sure where the 4 daily flights to Dublin increasing to 6 comes from
A spin from the FR
PR department, so no surprises there. 3 flights a day each way for a week is 21 flights which is the number which happens to be in the MA release. But it sounds better when you say 6 per day even though that is made up of 3 DUB-MAN and 3 MAN-DUB. (Unless he still thinks he will be taking over EI
)
Similarly as pwalhx has already pointed out the Mancs v Scouse thing is just a headline grabber for MOL to get things in the press and as usual has no substance to it. The press always head for his conferences as you never know what is going to happen. Remember his discussion in Germany when someone asked about transatlantic ops and he said he would have a business class where one of the services offered would be blow jobs! When the poor girl translator hesitated, he asked her if she knew the German word for blow job. It got massive healines throughout Germany. Seems like we have escaped quite lightly here!
but how long will Ryanair be at MAN for this time, will michael o`leary spit his dummy out again if the airport dont bow down to him, or is MAN the easy option for him cos it hasnt really worked out at Leeds Bradford......
The airport hasn't and won't concede. Interesting he has come back on terms available to all. See the fees and charges book; the flights involve the use of T2 in off peak periods when charges are low even though I guess there will still be peak hour flights from / to DUB as these are probably the higher yielders.
MOL has ordered loads of new aircraft and has to do something with them. In addition he probably sees EZY and LS develop the business at MAN and wants a slice of the action.
Suzeman