Ryanair Cancels 21 Routes from Girona Airport
July 28th, 2011
Budget airline Ryanair announced on Tuesday that they plan to reduce routes from Girona Airport from 46 to 25, an additional 21 routes. This new cut is to be implemented in October, at the start of the winter season, and is in response to the lack of a competitive agreement being reached with the Catalan Government, company Vice President Michael Cawley announced at a press conference in Barcelona.
Ryanair already announced the cancellation of 18 routes from Girona Airport in February, reducing the number of routes from 64 to 46 and the number of weekly flights from 300 to 194. The new cuts will mean an additional 50% reduction on the volume of passengers (from 2.6 million to 1.3 million) scheduled to transfer via Girona airport with the airline, and a reduction in aircraft from six to three.
Cawley, however, maintained that Ryanair is still willing to continue negotiations ahead of the summer of 2012, and opened the door to future recovery to levels of previous years, when they carried up to five million passengers, reported ABC News.
Despite the reduction in service, Ryanair’s Girona base will remain open until at least March 31. Of the destinations to be cancelled, 4 are domestic and the other 16 are international. The domestic routes to be deleted are those between Madrid, Alicante, Sevilla and Tenerife, and the international routes affected include Brussels, two in London, Liverpool and Rome.
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This looks like a great business oppurtunity for other airlines — I am a regular flier from Dublin and the flights are nearly always full but now I whave switched over to Aer Lingus to Perpignam. Come on yuo other airlines get those planes flying from Dublin london duddeldorf ———