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How do they do it?
I think it was yesterdays Sunday Times quoted in an article about Jacques Chirac and his presidential jet that it costs upto £4000 per hour to keep a plane in the air. I reckon that would be about right given my return ticket to Vancouver was about £350 and a flight of 11 hours. Pay the fuel bill, Crew costs, food costs, insurance and taxes, landing fees etc and make about £50 profit per passenger.
How do Ryanair offer free flights and stay in business? There must be some pretty big subsidies, incentives from these smaller European regional airports to make it worthwhile.
What do you reckon bloggers?
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Will they be on for next years world cup in Deutchsland?
posted by Huyton Hoofer @ 6:03 PM
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Huyton,
Yiu are correct some regional airports pay them subsides - take for instance Ryanair used to fly London Stanstead to Brussels Charloire airport, but were taken to court by the Belgium government for illegal payments to them for flying into that airport - result Ryanair were asked to fly there without subsides but teh price had to go up so much it made teh fares uneconomical so they stopped flying into that airport. Others include the Venice airport that Ryanair fly into the airport used to be a chicken shack but now thanks to Ryanair it is now starting to look something like Durham Teesvalley and all down to Ryanair flying into the airport that is a 1 hour bus ride into Venice.
Coxhoe's answer to Alan Wicker
Good for them.
iT doesn't half open up European travel and make it a lot more accessible to average Joe like me.
Free flights to Oslo, Dublin etc.
OK you pay the taxes but even those don't take some of these flights over £24 return. You can't get a standard return on GNER to London for less than £80
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