Ryanair to cut Edinburgh routes

Ryanair, Europe’s biggest discount carrier, said it would cut a further eight routes at Edinburgh Airport after failing to reach an agreement on fees with the terminal’s owner BAA.

Ryanair will axe flights to destinations including Fuerteventura, Spain, and Frankfurt from October, adding to the five routes that the carrier said in February it would remove from its summer schedule.

The cuts will reduce the number of its passengers using Edinburgh by about 500,000 a year — from 1.8m to 1.3m, and cost 500 jobs, the Dublin-based airline said.