OREANDA-NEWS. March 30, 2011. Ryanair, today (30th Mar) called on the new Irish Govt to deliver ‘change and reform’ to Irish transport by breaking up the failed DAA monopoly after the UK Competition Commission confirmed that the model on which it was based (BAA monopoly) must be broken up.   Ryanair calls for the urgent sale of Terminals 1 and 2 at Dublin Airport (to introduce competition as previously recommended by the ESRI) and the sale of Cork and Shannon to promote competition and lower costs, which the DAA monopoly and the failed CAR have repeatedly failed to deliver.
 
Ryanair also calls for the accelerated break-up of the BAA monopoly by expediting the sale of Stansted and Glasgow airports.
 
Ryanair’s Stephen McNamara said:
 
“Today is a great day for low fares and competition and a bad day for monopolies. We welcome the Competition Commission’s decision to proceed with the break-up of the BAA airport monopoly, and eagerly await the sale of Stansted and Glasgow airports. The sooner these airports are sold, the sooner competition will be allowed to improve airport facilities and lower airport charges at the BAA monopoly airports.
 
Ryanair also calls on the new Irish Government to deliver promised ‘change and reform’ by breaking up the equally high cost DAA airport monopoly, which was designed on the failed and discredited BAA airport monopoly, and investigate the regulatory failure at the Commission for Aviation Regulation which has allowed the DAA monopoly to mirror the behaviour of the BAA with over-specified Taj Mahal terminals that aren’t needed, while presiding over huge collapses in Irish air traffic and tourism.”