Ryanair, Europe’s only ultra-less costly carrier (ULCC), has presented a Greek tourism rescue plan to the Transport Minister Kostas Chatzidakis that could see Ryanair grow its Greek traffic to 10m passengers p.a. by 2016, at the day Ryanair opened its 1st Greek base (and 57th in total) at Chania. Ryanair has carried over 2m passengers to/from Greece in not up to 3 years since its first flight arrived to Kos from Frankfurt Hahn in May 2010. Ryanair’s summer 2013 schedule will offer 85 Greek routes from 10 airports (including 2 new airports at Kalamata and Zakynthos), delivering over 1.4m passengers p.a. and supporting 1,400* Greek jobs. Unfortunately, Athens continues to overlook out on Ryanair’s traffic growth and the tourism jobs it brings a result of airport operator’s refusal to have...
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