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Faro to Frankfurt direct flights take to the skies

ryanair1Ryanair has announced its plans to provide flights direct to Frankfurt Airport, Germany’s busiest hub, starting in March 2017.

Currently, the carrier flies into Frankfurt Hahn airport which lies about 100 kms away from the lively city of Frankfurt.

Faro will be among the destinations served along with Alicante, Malaga and Palme de Mallorca.

Ryanair will base two aircraft at Frankfurt Airport to complete 28 flights a week.

The Irish airline has until now avoided the major international airport because of the high charges imposed there. Among the low-cost carriers, only Spanish Vueling and Icelandic WOW offer flights in and out of Frankfurt.

An investment of some €180 million was required by Ryanair, according to its chief commercial officer David O’Brien. This addition will give the airline nine bases in Germany out of some 85 in Europe.

Fraport, the company which operates Frankfurt Airport, is reported to have offered a 40% discount from January to airlines wishing to start using the airport.

The move has caused a flap among existing carriers.

"We can't accept that competitors get the red carpet rolled out with unfair advantages, while those who have for many years been paying for Frankfurt's infrastructure to be built up with high fees pick up the tab," said Michael Engel, director of the German airline federation.

Lufthansa is reported to have demanded the same type of discount that is on offer to Ryanair.

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-10 #2 Peter Booker 2016-11-04 08:41
Christian´s comment is interesting, As Frankfurt has not achieved the forecast increase in aircraft movements, it seems fair to look again at the forecasts over expansion plans made on behalf of the British rivals, viz between Gatwick and Heathrow.

Since the Brexit result, and the freefall in the value of sterling which has occurred as a consequence, it is high time that May´s ineffective government began to ask serious questions over whether expansion is really needed. None of the factors which have been adduced in support of expansion is now valid. Increased number of business trips? Where to? Increased number of leisure flights? With fewer pounds in the pocket?

What we are seeing with Ryanair is a willingness to back airport hubs away from Britain, which seemingly does not wish to be a part of Europe.
-6 #1 Christian 2016-11-03 17:41
The discounts offered by Fraport, the company running Frankfurt's airport, to low-cost carriers such as Ryanair, reveal the lies of both Fraport and the regional government on which the expansion of the airport were based. The airport's forth runway was opened in 2011 (for which 250ha of forest had to be cut down, in the middle of one of the most densely populated areas of Germany) on the grounds that the number of take-offs and landings would rise to 656,000 by 2015. The actual figure for last year was 470,000, so it's no surprise that Fraport is bending over backwards to welcome Rynair et al at the cost of the other carriers who helped fund the infrastructure by paying the higher fees.

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