Dismay in Limerick as Ryanair wields axe
HOLIDAYMAKERS, Munster rugby supporters, Cheltenham racegoers, Polish ex-pats and people visiting family in the UK are all to lose out from Ryanair's decision to cut 17 routes from Shannon next March.
And Mid-West tourism businesses and hotels are bracing themselves for a
loss of business from the UK and the continent as Ryanair says passenger traffic – inward and outbound – through the airport will fall from a peak of 1.9 million to 600,000 as a result over its impasse with the Government and Shannon over the €10 departure tax and airport charges.
Ryanair confirmed that from the end of March 2010 it will no longer operate services to Alicante, Birmingham, Bristol, Brussels, Carcassonne, Edinburgh, Faro, Girona, Glasgow, Gran Canaria, Krakow, Lanzarote, Liverpool, Lodz, Milan and Murcia and Venice.
Retained are services to Stansted and Gatwick, Paris-Beauvais, Malaga twice a week and Tenerife once-weekly.
Ryanair had not confirmed the status of the weekly service to Nantes at the time to going to press. Nor was it clear whether the airline – which will have only one plane based at Shannon from March – intends cutting frequency on twice daily services to Gatwick and Stansted.
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