Suspension of Lamezia Service
Ryanair Holdings PLC
21 November 2000
RYANAIR SUSPENDS LAMEZIA SERVICE
Ryanair, Europe's leading low fares airline today announced
that with effect from 1 December it will suspend its daily
flight from London to Lamezia in the South of Italy.
Ryanair's route to Lamezia which started on 1 July has been
a big success thanks to Ryanair's low air fares. In just
six months over 30,000 passengers were carried on the route
where no services existed previously. Recently however the
Board of Lamezia Airport have sought to amend the terms of
its contract with Ryanair and despite the threat from
Ryanair that it would suspend the service Lamezia has
persisted in this position, and has failed to respond to
Ryanair's request to honour the contract between the
parties.
Announcing this decision today, Ryanair's Commercial
Director, Michael Cawley said;
'Ryanair regrets suspending any route such as
Lamezia which is a commercial success, but
we have been left with no alternative as we have
found it impossible to maintain a
satisfactory relationship with the Board
of Lamezia Airport. They have sought to
change our original agreement and to
renege on a number of the provisions in
that agreement. This is completely at
variance with the partnership principal
upon which Ryanair operates at all of
our airports. Ryanair is always
prepared and willing to work with
airports who honour agreements and try
to resolve issues but this is not the
case with Lamezia.
'We continue to be in discussions with over
20 new European airports, all of whom are
anxious to attract Ryanair's unique low
fares services next year. We expect to
be announcing the launch of five or six
new routes some time early in 2001. We
will be happy to recommence services to
Lamezia should the Board of the airport
confirm that they will honour the terms
of our agreement and will work with
Ryanair to promote low fare services,
traffic and tourism at Lamezia and
indeed Calabria'
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