The Ryanair base at Bordeaux-Mérignac airport will close next November “due to increased costs”, the Irish company announced on Tuesday, May 14.
“We are disappointed that Bordeaux Airport has not agreed to extend our low-cost base from November 2024. Due to rising costs, we have no other financial alternative but to close our Bordeaux base in November,” he said. Ryanair’s commercial director, Jason McGuinness. he explained in a press release.
The Irish low-cost company, which operates around forty flights to and from Bordeaux, also announced the transfer of its three aircraft and its 90 employees based in Gironde “to less expensive bases located in other parts of the vast network” of the cluster.
Installed for 14 years.
For its part, Bordeaux airport explains that it has “put limits on the financial needs” of Ryanair and intends to “continue its strategic axis, which is to diversify the portfolio of companies” active on the platform.
Bordeaux-Mérignac ranked eighth in the ranking of French airports in 2023, with 6.6 million passengers. This figure represented 85.5% of 2019 volumes, before the Covid-19 crisis, while French airports recovered, on average, 92.7% of their pre-pandemic clientele last year.
The Bordeaux facility suffered in particular from the end of the Paris-Orly connection, banned by the government in the name of the fight against global warming, as well as other internal connections that can be made in less than two hours and thirty minutes by train.
Source: BFM TV
