“Ryanair will probably be changed shortly”, the president of CCI Bordeaux-Gironde responds to the departure of the airline

« This departure was not wished,” acknowledges Patrick Seguin, president of the Bordeaux Gironde Chamber of Commerce and Business (CCI). The Irish airline Ryanair introduced in mid-Could that it’s going to shut the Bordeaux air base subsequent Novemberafter the “failure of negotiations with Bordeaux airport on the extension…

« This departure was not wished,” acknowledges Patrick Seguin, president of the Bordeaux Gironde Chamber of Commerce and Business (CCI). The Irish airline Ryanair introduced in mid-Could that it’s going to shut the Bordeaux air base subsequent November following the “failure of negotiations with Bordeaux airport over the extension of Ryanair’s low-cost companies”. It will end result within the lack of 40 Ryanair routes to and from Bordeaux, and the elimination of over 90 jobs there. The CCI is the second shareholder (behind the State) of Bordeaux-Mérignac airport.

Patrick Seguin, president of the Bordeaux Gironde Chamber of Commerce and Business.

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“Blackmail”

Patrick Seguin, its president, notices this departure, wakes up d“Unique business practices” of the Irish firm. “We had been in battle for six years [sur le coût des prestations de l’aéroport de Bordeaux, NDLR]. The Geneva arbitration courtroom presided over the battle. We reached an settlement that made it doable to cease the authorized proceedings. » The negotiations about costs, nonetheless, didn’t succeed: “There’s a value desk. They stated sure, after which no, they requested for an enormous low cost. They’re used to the reality… We didn’t recognize the employment blackmail that was accomplished. And I am telling you, Ryanair will probably be changed shortly. »

Round forty corporations are operating to take over companies from the Irish group. “We’re working to allow affected employees to seek out work in Bordeaux. » There is no such thing as a panic on the a part of CCI as such, particularly since “the aim is to extend the share of low-cost connections to 50% in 2027 [contre 70 % aujourd’hui, NDLR] ».

secant path

Pádraig Seguin takes the chance to speak about two information from the airport. The impartial engineering firm Ingerop, primarily based in Mérignac, was chosen to regulate the modernization of the airport. An funding of 240 million euros which can form a brand new airport by 2027. However above all, refined tools that reduces power consumption by 25%. The concept is to extend the airport’s environmental affect from 2,000 tonnes of CO2 equal per 12 months to 900 tonnes in 2027.

One other matter, Patrick Seguin leads the continued conferences within the metropolis as a part of the affect research on airport noise air pollution, on sustaining or eradicating the secant path. He would not need to get entangled within the debate and simply factors out “technically, it is doable”. And he remembers that this resolution rests with the State, the one decision-maker on this case. He will probably be a referee in 2026.