Ryanair Deepens Cuts at Edinburgh as BAA Seeks to Complete Sale
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Ryanair Holdings Plc, Europe’s biggest discount carrier, said it would cut eight more routes at Edinburgh airport after failing to reach an agreement on fees with the terminal’s owner BAA.
Ryanair will eliminate flights to destinations including Frankfurt and Fuerteventura, Spain, from October, adding to the five routes that the carrier said in February it would remove from its summer schedule. The cuts will reduce the number of its passengers using Edinburgh by about 500,000 a year, from 1.8 million to 1.3 million, and cost 500 jobs, the Dublin-based airline said in an e-mailed statement today.