Ryanair criticises Manchester Airport award
01.12.08
Ryanair has blasted Manchester Airport, saying that it should not have been given any award because of falling passenger numbers. The budget airline has questioned the silver medal awarded to the airport at the recent British Travel Awards. It also questioned Heathrow’s Best UK Airport award, citing loss of passenger bags and flight cancellations.
Its head of sales and marketing, Lesley Kane, said: ‘How can Heathrow Airport and Manchester Airport be recognised as the Best UK Airports for 2008? In March this year, Heathrow Terminal 5 opened with the cancellation of over 700 flights and the loss of over 28,000 bags; clearly not the signs of an award-winning airport.'
‘The runner-up award went to Manchester Airport, an airport with declining passenger traffic and job losses on the horizon. Taking these facts into account, it’s ludicrous to give Heathrow and Manchester any kind of award apart from booby prize.’
Ryanair said its reference to looming job losses related to Servisair’s announcement earlier this year that 180 jobs are to be cut at Manchester. For the financial year to date, passenger numbers at Manchester Airport were almost 5 percent down, which equates to 747,405 passengers in past seven months. The budget airline flies to nine destinations from Manchester.
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