Ryanair starts Kerry-Dublin route

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Mr O’Leary used the Kerry-Dublin inaugural flight to again call on Kerry Airport to lower its high charges on the Kerry-Dublin route. Ryanair has written twice to the Board of Kerry Airport offering to put in the same low fares on the Kerry-Dublin route as it presently offers on the Kerry-Frankfurt and London routes, if Kerry Airport will reciprocate by offering Ryanair the same low costs. The airport costs on the Kerry-Dublin route are significantly higher than they are on Ryanair’s other routes to/from Kerry and Ryanair believes that this enormous cost differential is unjustified. The Government’s PSO money is simply being used to prop up higher fares and high costs at Kerry Airport.
 
Speaking in Kerry this morning, Michael O’Leary said:
 
“We are calling on the Board of Kerry Airport to lower the airport costs on the Dublin route and make them similar to the costs which prevail on our Frankfurt and London routes. If they do, then Ryanair will respond by offering lower fares on the Kerry-Dublin service, which we believe could deliver a trebling of traffic from the hundred thousand or so carried by Aer Arann, up to over 300,000 being carried by Ryanair. However if Kerry Airport insists on levying these high charges, then Ryanair will be forced to charge higher fares and traffic/load factors on the Kerry-Dublin route will be stuck at the same 100,000 level that was previously being delivered by Aer Arann.
 
“Since Kerry Airport will make more money from these extra passengers (in car parking, commercial revenues and terminal spending), we call on them to work with Ryanair to stimulate lower fares, higher load factors and greater passenger numbers. Ryanair looks forward this Winter to carrying thousands of people from Kerry to Dublin, and equally bringing many thousands of visitors from Dublin back to Kerry, particularly since Kerry will need these visitors next September, as they won’t have any All Ireland Final to travel to.”


(c) Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation. Date posted: 23-Jul-08

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