Ryanair blackmailing Latvia

The Irish budget airline Ryanair has announced it will invest 140 million US dollars in a new hub in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas instead of in the Latvian capital Riga.

The Internet paper Diena adds its voice to the expressions of disapproval in Latvia:

“Former transportation minister Ainārs Šlesers has gone so far as to accuse the current government of illiteracy and damaging the interests of Latvia. In the underworld what Ryanair is doing is called blackmail. Well aware of the drawing power of its logo it is placing exhorbitant demands on the airports in question: namely a new infrastructure, discounts, money for advertising and much more. In plain language: you need us, and not the other way round. And yet the conditions at Riga Airport were no different last year than they are now.

… But Ryanair remains in Riga and is even boosting the number of flights, and you don’t do something like that in a location that’s devoid of prospects.”

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