I think the two airports can easily co-exist and have done so in the last twenty years - The Galway market aside they both serve predomianntly different catchment regions Varadkar seems to be targeting very optimistic growth - 2.5m passengers, ywhich lets be honest will require a major expansion with Ryanair - its a bit rich to say Knock over reliant on Ryanair when its clearly obvious if Shannon want to get anywhere near those types of figures Ryanair are going to have to go back in again in a big way and become the dominant carrier - this has already been tried and tested and didnt work at the levels forecasted. Sawtooth is right Aer Lingus already tried a CDG and a LGW and both didnt work so whats changed in 12 months??.
Last edited by Fly_bill; 3rd Dec 2012 at 21:35.