Ryanair to withdraw from ALC
In the court case mentioned in the above post, the FR lawyer stated that the charge to use an airbridge at ALC was €97.62 per hour. Assuming a turn-round of approximately 30 minutes, this would equate to a cost to FR of €50 [rounding numbers up]. I would have thought that the cost of bussing pax to the aircraft would not be significantly cheaper than this.
Is this for once a case where FR are actually fighting over handling procedures, rather than cash? I would have thought that if FR want to get good terms at the new Covera airport, thay would not want to show their hand too soon by walking away from ALC. Or have they already agrred to move to Covera, and are using this dispute at ALC as a smoke-screen, to try and demonstrate to other airport operators that they cannot be pushed around?