Originally Posted by MidlandDeltic
This is bizarre. Why not? If airbridges etc have a commercial value to the airlines (which I don't necessarily believe, but some seem to think so); if T1 is so bad and unliked by costomers and T2 is better and more attractive to them; if the debt on T2 needs repaying; then DAA should be charging more for their use.
Not doing so implies that the low cost users are subsidizing the higher value travellers. It also implies that the airlines are not actually that impressed with the facilities on offer in T2 over those in T1, and higher charges would have meant the white elelphant would have been an even bigger white elephant as airlines stayed put.
MD
This was essentially Ryanair's arguement, i.e. they won't be using T2 so why should they have to pay for it. But it was part of the deal with Aer Lingus and some of the US airlines who threatened not to move to T2 unless charges remained the same for both terminals. And you can see their side of the arguement as well, as it would've been uncompetitive for them to operate from T2 with higher charges while competing airlines were saving money operating from T1.