Ryanair apology for spokesman’s Cork Airport comments

Ryanair last night issued a statement apologising for and withdrawing “inaccurate comments” about Cork Airport charges which were made by its own spokesman.

In an article which appeared on the Irish Independent’s website yesterday afternoon, the airline was quoted as urging customers of Cork Airport to “make its ‘excessive’ charges a general election issue”.

The article said Ryanair operates 19 summer and six winter routes from Cork and that the airline said excessive charges were preventing its expansion at the airport.