Ryanair withdraws service
Ryanair Holdings PLC
13 June 2001
RYANAIR WITHDRAWS ITS SERVICE
FROM RIMINI AIRPORT
Ryanair Europe's largest low fares airline today (Wednesday, 13th June 2001)
announced that with effect from the 25th June it is to cease its daily service
from London Stansted to Rimini Airport. In recent months Ryanair has
encountered significant difficulties with the Board and Management of Rimini
Airport who have consistently thwarted the implementation of the contract,
which exists between the two parties. Ryanair has flown between London
Stansted and Rimini since June of 1998 and has built up the route very
successfully to a position where it carried over 70,000 passengers in the last
year. However, since the Management and Board of the airport changed within
the last twelve months they have sought to change the terms of the contract
with Ryanair and to break the terms of the deal.
Announcing the decision today, Ryanair's Commercial Director, Mr. Michael
Cawley, said;
'Here we have the spectre of a misguided airport Management and Board seeking
to break its contract with Ryanair. Ryanair has built up Rimini Airport from
the provincial backwater that it was prior to 1998 and has transformed tourism
in Emililo-Romagno with tens of thousands of new visitors to the region from
the U.K., not just during the peak summer periods but throughout the whole
year. Ryanair's low fares revived tourism in this region, which has long been
bereft of visitors from Britain. The airport Management and Board now feel
that they can renege on the terms of the agreement which Ryanair signed
originally in 1998 with the airport and expect Ryanair to continue to fly
there under some new financial arrangements. What they do not understand is
that with ten existing airports and in excess of ten further airports seeking
our business Ryanair has more demands for its flights than it can supply for
the foreseeable future. For the remainder of the summer schedule we are moving
this capacity to Ancona which is merely one hour by car further south from
Rimini. The Management there have greeted this new capacity with the
enthusiasm which we have come to expect from them and we shall ensure that the
passengers will not be significantly discommoded by this move.'
ENDS. Wednesday, 13th June 2001
For reference: Michael Cawley Pauline McAlester
Ryanair Murray Consultants
Tel: 00-353-1-812 1228 Tel: 00-353-1-663 3332
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