The FINANCIAL — Ryanair, Ireland’s favourite airline, today (15th Aug) called on Cork and Shannon media to demand that the DAA publish its traffic figures for Cork and Shannon airports for the month of July and year-to-date.
The DAA recently (4th Aug) published Dublin Airport’s July traffic figures (showing a meagre 1% growth on July ‘10) but again failed to publish similar traffic figures for Cork or Shannon airports or for the DAA monopoly as a whole. Ryanair believes that Cork and Shannon airports suffered yet another traffic decline in July which is why the DAA is hiding these traffic figures.
As the official of Ryanair, said, “The DAA is hiding Cork and Shannon’s declining traffic figures, which is why they failed to publish the July traffic stats for both airports, or the DAA Group as a whole. While Dublin’s traffic grew by a meagre 1% in July, Ryanair believes both Cork and Shannon suffered a fifth successive July of traffic declines, which is why the DAA is hiding these declining Cork and Shannon figures".
"The DAA’s enormous cost increases (33% at Shannon from Nov 2010 and 40% in Dublin from April 2010) continue to damage Irish traffic, tourism and jobs, because Ireland is now a high cost destination and continues to lose traffic, routes and jobs to lower cost airports elsewhere in Europe,” added Mr. Stephen McNamara, from Ryanair.
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