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Ryanair closing nine out of 10 Manchester routes

Ryanair is closing nine of its 10 Manchester routes. The carrier will move the services to other regional airports with lower operating costs.

Manchester Airport will lose 44 flights per week from October 1. This equates to around 600,000 passengers per year.

Ryanair had asked Manchester Airport to lower its charges in response to the lower fares being paid by passengers during the recession. The carrier offered the airport an extra 28 weekly flights if it reduced its charges, but the offer was declined.

As a result, Ryanair's routes between Manchester and the following destinations will be stopped: Barcelona (Girona), Bremen, Brussels (Charleroi), Cagliari, Dusseldorf (Weeze), Frankfurt (Hahn), Marseille, Milan (Bergamo) and Shannon. Passengers affected by the closure of these routes will be contacted by Ryanair and offered a full refund or the option of alternative flights from competing airports.

Ryanair recently announced that it was opening a base at Leeds Bradford Airport, offering 63 return flights per week from March 2010. The airline says that it will "continue to grow routes and traffic at lower cost competitor airports", including Leeds Bradford, Liverpool and East Midlands. This is not the first cut Ryanair has made in recent months - earlier in the year it announced that it was cutting its capacity at Stansted by 40 per cent this winter.

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