Ryanair cuts Liverpool Airport flights / jobs
19.02.09
Ryanair is reducing its capacity at Liverpool Airport, citing the ‘government's greedy APD’ and the weak pound as the two main reasons. The budget airline will cut ten destinations from the airport, resulting in the loss of 50 pilot, cabin crew and engineering jobs.
Axed destinations include Paris, Budapest, Valencia, Faro and Lodz, and the airline anticipates future cuts in the winter schedule. One aircraft will also be removed from Liverpool airport, leaving six. As a consequence, the airport is expected to suffer a 200,000 passenger drop from 2.7 million to 2.5 million between 2008 and 2009.
Ryanair's Deputy chief executive, Michael Cawley, said: ‘The decision by the Government to continue to impose high Air Passenger Duty charges and increase them over the next two years is completely unacceptable given the current economic climate.'
‘Ryanair has repeatedly called for this tax to be scrapped by highlighting that such travel taxes have failed in both the UK and Dutch markets, where they immediately resulted in traffic declines and sadly these declines look set to continue.'
‘These cuts can and will be reversed if the government’s greedy APD is scrapped – only then can we grow passenger traffic at Liverpool and throughout the UK.’
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