Ryanair leaves Northern Ireland – Air-Journal

The airline company low cost Ryanair will abolish its connections to Belfast-City, and the following month those at the international airport in the capital of Northern Ireland, ending 14 years of presence in the province – at least during the winter season.

After having abandoned the service of Derry, the Irish specialist will leave on 12 September 2021 the airport of Belfast City-George Best, where it still offers eight seasonal connections to Alicante, Barcelona, ​​Bergamo, Faro, Ibiza, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca and Valencia. Then at the end of October, it would be at all from the international airport of Belfast, where six routes are currently offered to and from Alicante, Bergamo, Krakow and Malaga year round, plus Gdansk and Warsaw-Modlin in high season (but Belfast – Alicante for example is still offered online for flights in November) .

According to the daily The Belfast Telegraph, Ryanair made this decision due to the passenger tax of 13 pounds that the British government ” refuses to reduce or suspend “According to a spokesperson quoted by the daily, and a” lack of incentives to post-Covid recovery for Northern Irish airports ”, Although the two platforms have received more than 10 million pounds since last year. The planes deployed to the province this winter ” will be reassigned to lower cost airports elsewhere in the UK and Europe for the winter timetable which begins in November », Specified the spokesperson.

Belfast International Airport said it was disappointed with the news, after “difficult times for aviation and at a time when consumers have need for stability and confidence in the Northern Ireland air transport network ”. The platform claims to have anticipated this announcement and to have engaged with other airlines “to ensure continuity on the routes that will be released by Ryanair and to help maintain employment in the aviation industry at the local level”. Announcements of new routes are “hoped for in the near future”.