Ryanair performance outstrips Aer Lingus in Belfast

Ryanair today released UK CAA Figures which showed that traffic at Belfast City has grown by 28% in the period January to July 2008. by comparison, traffic at Belfast Aldergrove has grown by only 2%.

Speaking in Belfast today, Ryanair's Michael O'Leary said 'that some of Aer Lingus's load factors at Aldergrove are truly awful running less than 50% to important European capitals like Paris and Amsterdam, where as Ryanair's load factor on it's four destinations from Belfast City are running at over 75% full. 

He also described the move by Aer Lingus from Shannon to Belfast as financial disaster. He said that Aer Lingus had halted it's Shannon to Heathrow service where the company had load factors of 80% and established a Belfast to Heathrow route where it is struggling to achieve loads of 50%.