Originally Posted by Jack1985
Precisely, Ryanair declared War basically on easyJet in 2005 launching near enough the same schedules and guaranteed to beat them on price. But yet I do blame the CAA if they had refused to offer the waved fee's and told FR if they wanted a new base they could but would pay full house price and if say they did and still drove easyJet out then that was fair competition albeit overkill at the same time.
Whether Ryanair actually received a discount for the route or not, what makes you think they wouldn't have competed with easyJet directly anyway?
And btw what you're suggesting the CAA should've done is illegal. An airport operator can't pick and choose what airlines it offers discounts to or what routes it allows airlines to fly.
Originally Posted by Jack1985
You really are fooled if you believe Ryanair gets the same subsidies as every other airline, they get zero fee's for x years and give agreements on x amount of traffic.
Ryanair may offer to bring in x million passengers a year if the airport offers a discount to airport charges, and they airport may well agree to that, but it has to offer those discounts to other airlines as well. The only reason other airlines don't start the same routes is because they can't compete with Ryanair.