Ryanair set to leave Belfast City Airport
31 August 2010
| Belfast International
Ryanair has announced that it is set to leave Belfast City Airport. It has one airplane located there and this is planned to leave there on October 31st. It will be relocated to another European city, but as yet undisclosed. As Ryanair do not service
Belfast International airport, it will leaving the area completely, leaving only Derry airport the only airport in Northern Ireland it flies in and out of.
The reason Ryanair is leaving is because because of a delay into the public enquiry that is in place for the second runway to be built. The original date this runway was to be operational was 2008. This decision will result in 50 job losses, but staff will be offered relocation deals.