In October, I wrote that Ryanair was threatening Shannon airport with extinction. The airport and its biggest customer were at loggerheads over a new $15 departure tax. Ryanair threatened to leave if the tax was not removed. The tax stayed and Ryanair is basically leaving.
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According to the mayor of Clare, the town in Ireland where Shannon Airport stands, if Ryanair reduces its operations there by 75 percent as threatened, the airport will become a ghost town. Ryanair aggressively battles what it consideres unfair airport charges in its goal to provide low-cost service. When they can’t get the airports to lower costs, they move operations to another more cooperative field.
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A British Airways plane headed for San Francisco made an emergency landing in Ireland Saturday night.
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