Ryanair scrap three Liverpool Airport routes - including to Aberdeen and Inverness
20.07.07
Ryanair is to scrap three routes from Liverpool Airport as part of a route reorganisation. The budget airline announced plans for 11 new routes across Europe from October yesterday, but 11 other links, including from Liverpool to Inverness, Aberdeen and Kaunas, are being axed from 2 November to accommodate them.
The flights between Inverness and Aberdeen to Liverpool were only launched a year ago, but are being scrapped when the airline launches its winter timetable because of poor passenger numbers.
Peter Sherrard, Ryanair's head of communications, said: 'Passenger numbers were already fairly weak. Then we had Gordon Brown's [air passenger duty] tax introduced in May and that did not do weak routes any favours at all.'
'Like any good company, we review operations on a regular basis and if there are routes that are underperforming in comparison to the possibilities that are out there, we are obviously going to change.'
It leaves Ryanair flying just one route from Aberdeen (to Dublin) and from Inverness (to East Midlands).
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