Monday, August 17, 2009

Why Manchester Airport said 'No' to Ryan Air?

BBC reports that Ryan Air is planning to close their service from Manchester Airport. The reason being Ryan Air wants the airport to reduce the current £3 per passenger the Airport charges. A spokesman for Manchester Airport said it did not "believe that charges as low as £3 per passenger are unreasonable".

I had a look at this thinking why did Manchester say no to this. It seems about 60,000 people use Ryan Air in a year. So that means all Manchester Airport is making in a year from Ryan Air is £180,000. Then they would need to employ people to security check these additional 60,000 people. So it is obvious Manchester is not making a lot of money out of this deal and hence they told Ryan Air to fob off.

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