Ryanair slow Manchester expansion

Ryanair announced today that it would slow it's expansion at Manchester airport until such a time as it starts paying less for airport, passenger handling and ATC fees. Last month the airline announced that it was increasing frequency on the Manchester - Charleroi route and would increase it's passenger throughput at the airport to 1m. Today however, Leslie Kane, Ryanair's head of sales and marketing said that the growth plans had been scaled back to around 800,000 passengers this year which is still a 26% growth over 2008. She also said that there would no further growth at the airport citing Manchester's cost base as the obstacle, claiming that Ryanair "can get a much better deal in Milan for example".

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