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Old 13th Jun 2012, 15:44
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They may be in Greece now but they are closing all Rhodes and Kos from first week in October over marketing support, I can see others being closed fairly quickly as well as Greece can't afford FR.
Hmm. The Greek economy is just going to get on fine without Ryanair then!

Yup!

(Sorry, not trying to be flippant - but if you look at CAA stats over the last decade, Greece is one of the few major destinations to show consistent decline in traffic, as opposed to most countries which show growth until around 2008, then slow decline in last few years.

The other European country with a big decline is Belgium. Now there is an obvious reason for that, but I don't see Eurostar opening train services to Athens any time soon. The current mess Greece is in isn't just about the euro - if they are sending potential tourism revenue away, when most countries are able to work with Ryanair, then don't they only have themselves to blame? Especially as traffic to the Greek islands is almost all bringing visitors in as opposed to taking locals out.)
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