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No problem with the action of Pau and to be fair I looked later at their movements….about 9 a day to Paris (both apts) and LYS,so probably could be sustained on those alone.However,from 15-19 Feb inclusive their only international dep is FR to STN.Frankly,I think it’s wishful thinking some other foreign carrier will set up a range of routes without a similar inducement,but we will see.
Whilst not exactly applauding their stand,as I simply don’t share the hatred of Ryanair,I fully support their right to make it.
I DO NOT agree with your assertion other places have lost FR and gained newcomers……..Friedrichshafen,Brescia,Newquay,Stockholm Vasteras are examples where nothing has ever replaced lost FR routes,and there are many others.
Dusseldorf Weeze,Lubeck,Girona.Beauvais as examples have no more than 2 non-FR flights
What would happen to local jobs if they lost the only outfit with the scale of size required?

I have no problem with Ryanair trying to make a go of their business, but I do when their self proclaimed successes have, in most cases, been accomplished on the backs of those damn subsidies, exemptions from this and that, lousy pay and conditions etc.

As for RYR being replaced at certain locations, there have recently been other carriers launching replacement services, for example in Belfast and East Midlands. I believe that other carriers took over certain RYR routes out of MAN and LBA, but I’m quite ready to be corrected on that. As to the provision of jobs at the locations you mention, doesn’t it follow, going back to my previous post, that the operations were deemed not commercially viable and hence had to fold? Cruel though it is, isn’t that how the economic system that I despise so much, the one that is so loudly espoused by MoL and other ‘free market Stalinists (when it suits) is supposed to work? In short, why don’t RYR and other companies like them, that claim to be shining examples of deregulated private enterprise, have the bloody guts to admit publicly when when they go cap in hand to the dreaded state, wherever that state may be, to make their operations viable.