{"id":331,"date":"2009-08-17T09:23:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T06:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=331"},"modified":"2009-08-22T15:34:31","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T12:34:31","slug":"ryanair-considered-to-closing-manchester-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/ryanair-considered-to-closing-manchester-routes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair considered to closing Manchester routes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ryanair-closing-manchester-routes-.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-333\" title=\"Ryanair considered to closing Manchester routes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ryanair-closing-manchester-routes--280x220.jpg\" alt=\"Ryanair considered to closing Manchester routes\" width=\"280\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>Ryanair is to switch or close nine of the 10 routes it currently operates from Manchester Airport, blaming the airport&#8217;s refusal to lower its charges.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>The budget airline said the change would take effect from 1 October and would result in the loss of 44 weekly flights and up to 600 local jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The firm said most affected flights would be switched to East Midlands, Leeds Bradford, and Liverpool airports.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Manchester Airport said Ryanair&#8217;s decision was &#8220;regrettable&#8221;.<br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Full refund <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ryanair&#8217;s announcement comes a month after it said it would cut flights from London Stansted by 30% over the winter period, also as a result of a dispute over airport charges.<\/p>\n<p>The nine routes from Manchester that will close are those to Barcelona (Girona), Bremen, Brussels (Charleroi), Cagliari, Dusseldorf (Weeze), Frankfurt (Hahn), Marseille, Milan (Bergamo) and Shannon.<\/p>\n<p>The airline said passengers affected by the changes would be e-mailed and, &#8220;provided with a full refund, or the alternative of flying to some destinations&#8221; from East Midlands, Leeds Bradford and Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>Ryanair said it had offered Manchester an additional 28 weekly flights if the airport agreed to reduce its charges, but that it had rejected the offer.<\/p>\n<p>However, a spokesman for Manchester Airport said it did not &#8220;believe that charges as low as \u00a33 per passenger are unreasonable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve consistently cut our charges for the last 15 years even when faced with increased costs such as security,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Passengers will still be able to travel directly to the majority of the destinations affected by choosing other airlines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryanair is to switch or close nine of the 10 routes it currently operates from Manchester Airport, blaming the airport&#8217;s refusal to lower its charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sectoral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}