BELFAST AIRPORT INTERNATIONAL
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Just more lies and spin to make the whole project look more appealing. By the time 2030 comes around, all this will have been forgotten. Who knows what will be needed by 2030 anyway. In the Brexit vote, they couldn't get their projections correct for six months ahead, yet they try to convince us that they know what will happen 13 years from now. Complete lies.
You say "They". Who are "they"? If you mean people using stats, we assume you have a brain in your head to see the context, makes it harder to mislead. If LHR gets a third runway of course BFS should be re-connected to the UK's main hub, it gives another good option for inbound investement and connecting NI to the wider world. You can't run a business without modelling future behaviour, that's silly to even try. Now CAX and PIK? Unlikely but a proper entrepreneur could make it work, unlikely not impossible.
I heard once about some Greek bloke starting B737s from GLA to, wait for it, Luton Airport #rofl. Geeez, get this, he wasn't even using his own AOC, he piggybacked on GB Airways, a real airline. I knew GB would outlast this new outift......
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Passenger numbers up 34% in January. Good start to the year 
https://www.belfastairport.com/blog-...senger-figures
https://www.belfastairport.com/blog-...senger-figures
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Good start to the year yes, but don't be expecting such large increases in passenger numbers all year - take into account that this is the first January that Ryanair's Gatwick route has operated, which'll take up 40,000-50,000 of the 95,000 pax increase.
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someones been in class today then lol
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Bought the Belfast Telegraph on Friday evening and a Ryanair booklet was inside it.
Great quality booklet, advertising flights from.....Dublin.
Welcome to the world of Ryanair folks, making you feel special and making you feel that you're the only one while groping the a*se of the bird across the street.
Great quality booklet, advertising flights from.....Dublin.
Welcome to the world of Ryanair folks, making you feel special and making you feel that you're the only one while groping the a*se of the bird across the street.
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Yes saw it too Scodaman. All paid for and placed by Dublin Airport in the clamour to keep business flowing south to them.
Ryanair and other airlines are simply taking the airport cash being thrown at them.
Don't think any of the routes FR fly from BFS were promoted - all Ibiza, Malta, Madrid, Hamburg from what I saw.
I have no doubt Ryanair have no sentiment. Why would they? They're a very focussed business. And I'm also sure that if the air tax was equal in Belfast to what it is in Dublin Ryanair would see great sense in doubling up from BFS on many more of the destinations they fly from Dublin.
Ryanair and other airlines are simply taking the airport cash being thrown at them.
Don't think any of the routes FR fly from BFS were promoted - all Ibiza, Malta, Madrid, Hamburg from what I saw.
I have no doubt Ryanair have no sentiment. Why would they? They're a very focussed business. And I'm also sure that if the air tax was equal in Belfast to what it is in Dublin Ryanair would see great sense in doubling up from BFS on many more of the destinations they fly from Dublin.
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Leaving aside the departure tax, what could airports here do to reduce the number of pax going to Dublin? The school that one of my daughter's goes to has two large groups away at the minute, both out of Dublin. I sometimes wonder if the agents used are quite happy to push Dublin. Is there anything they can do?