easyJet to pull out of Robin Hood Airport
11.09.10
easyJet has announced it is pulling out of Robin Hood Airport just five months after launching services from the hub. The airline started operating 23 flights a week to Amsterdam, Prague, Barcelona, Faro and Majorca in April. But airport operator Peel Airports said that because easyJet's aircraft had not been based at the airport flight times on some services had been unattractive. It said the loss of easyJet was ‘a setback'.
Nick Smillie, aviation sales director for Peel Airports, said: ‘We are naturally very disappointed by easyJet's decision to withdraw flights from 4 January 2011. Operational restrictions, largely due to the fact that the aircraft is not Doncaster based, have affected the viability of the operation. For example, the timings of certain key flights have affected their attractiveness to the region's business community - a key source of passengers and revenues.'
‘However, where schedules have been favourable, aircraft have been flying up to 99% full. This provides us with strong evidence of demand for flights from the airport. We were really proud of getting a big-name carrier which was a high-profile success for the airport and we hoped it would grow. We cannot deny this is a setback.’
He said the airport was talking to other airlines regarding easyJet's routes and was confident many would be reinstated ‘in the near future’.
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