Ryanair chief calls for ‘radical’ approach to solving London’s air capacity crisis
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Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary has called on the UK government to approve the development of three new runways in London to meet capacity demand for the future.
Speaking during the airline’s summer 2017 schedule launch in London, the airline chief said new runways should be built at Heathrow, Stansted and Gatwick.
“Ryanair calls on the new UK Government to be radical in its decision making on new runways for London instead of picking just one (Heathrow or Gatwick) and calls on Prime Minister Theresa May to approve three new runways – one each at Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted, which will finally resolve the runway capacity issue for the next 50 years, while ensuring competition between airports delivers efficient facilities and prevents airlines and passengers being ripped off by gold-plated monopoly runways.”
Ryanair summer 2017 schedule includes two new routes to Strasbourg and Faro, and more flights to Sofia and Nuremberg, which it claims will deliver 23.6m customers p.a. and support 18,000 jobs at London Stansted, London Gatwick and London Luton airports.
Ryanair’s London summer 2017 schedule will deliver:
London Stansted:
- New route to Strasbourg (2 wkly)
- More flights to: Sofia (2 daily) & Nuremberg (2 daily)
- 132 routes in total
- 19.9m customers p.a.
- 15,000* “on-site” jobs p.a.
London Gatwick:
- 5 routes in total: Belfast (4 daily), Cork (1 daily), Dublin (7 daily) & Shannon (1 daily)
- 1.7m customers p.a.
- 1,300* “on-site” jobs p.a.
London Luton:
- New route to: Faro (5 wkly)
- 18 routes in total
- 2m customers p.a.
- 1,500* “on-site” jobs p.a.
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