O'Leary condemns runway extension delay

Up to 500 new jobs and more air routes to Europe are being jeopardised by the delay to the George Best Belfast City Airport runway extension, Ryanair claimed today.

Five new direct links to Germany, Belgium and Italy could have gone ahead this year without the political “fudge” at Stormont, Ryanair chief executive Michael O‘Leary added. He said the delay also meant Belfast would lose out on half a million extra passengers a year.