Failure to extend runway will cost jobs!
THE LOW-COST airline arrived at George Best Belfast City Airport in a flurry in 2007 proclaiming “Ulster says ‘No’ to high fares” and promising to “end the high fare stranglehold imposed”, Ryanair claimed, by some its competitors.
A smiling Michael O’Leary claimed that in the next 12 months Ryanair would carry 600,000 passengers to Northern Ireland who could “generate a tourism spend of over £100 million which will sustain 600 local jobs.” But Ryanair and Northern Ireland had a short-lived honeymoon period when it soon became obvious that restrictions on reduced passenger loads and night-time flying were clipping its wings.
The airline was unhappy with the airport’s runway. O’Leary campaigned for an extension, claiming it would allow the airline “to expand further by adding a range of guaranteed lowest fare flights to European destinations”.
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