Ryanair says increased airport charges are to blame for abandoning route

WE wish to respond to Cork airport management’s letter (September 20) in which they claimed they have not raised charges on the Ryanair routes from Cork to Glasgow and East Midlands. This claim is simply untrue.

On November 1 next, Cork airport plans to reduce Ryanair’s new route discounts from 100% this year to 80% next year. This is a very substantial and unjustified increase in charges.

Cork airport was aware last year, when Ryanair launched these two new, unserved routes, that they would cease if Cork put the costs up because we must have very low costs if we were to use our very low fares (two million free seats this week) to attract 200,000 passengers annually on these two routes over the past 12 months.