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Benidorm's Councilor for Tourism yesterday asked the Government to intervene in the negotiations between Alicante aiport management in Ryanair in a bid to prevent further losses in the number of foreign visitors coming to the area.
Official figures released recently by the Ministry of Development revealled how passenger traffic dropped 12.4% at El Altet during January and February, with a total of 880,136 arrivals compared with 1,004,779 passengers in the same period in 2011.
Whilst AENA officials were quick to put this decline down to a number of other factors - such as the collpase of Spanair, cancellations due to Iberia pilots strikes and the recession - the cut routes by Ryanair have obviously played a major part in this.
Ryanair's routes for the coming Summer season have been slashed to just 18 routes, representing a loss of some 300 flights per week and and an estimated 1.5 Million passengers by the end of the season.
The councilor noted that this will have a negative effect, not just on Benidorm but throughout the entire provinces of Alicante and Murcia.
