It is a bit worrying if he has said they are finding it very difficult to attract airlines and routes to the airport - I wonder how much the £6 fee is putting airlines off - We would still have Ryanair to Alicante, and you never know maybe also Tenerife and Faro like Doncaster?
Passengers figures in June are a bit mixed -
Jersey down 20%
Bourgas down 39%
Both down due to the fee?
But Amsterdam is holding up ok, only down 3% compared with last year and that is with the fee and the lunchtime flight instead of the teatime flight ( Maybe a case for KLM to have a lunchtime and a teatime flight
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Dalaman is holding up only 1% down on last year and Southampton is up 30%,Aberdeen up 2% and Palma up 35% So it seems the fee has not put off Eastern Airways passengers yet!
Also I wish the MP and the Gazette that are trying to get the name changed back, would put more effort into getting people to use the airport rather than a confusing name change again.