Such cheap flights are possible because the airlines aren’t paying the externalities they cause.
Ryanair don’t fly to London btw. Or Brussels.
Ryanair don’t fly to London btw. Or Brussels.
I have wasted too much of my time in delayed trains trying to get into London to believe that.
And based on travel times you could add some other airports to that list of London Airports. Southampton Airport is faster to get to than Stansted or Luton for a lot of Londoners. And with HS2 BHX could probably change its name too.
Ryanair demand subsidies from local governments to fly to far-flung airports. They can hold these governments hostage, as often the airports fail if they stop their service. Of course, this could be seen as simply "bad management" by our local governments.
And to finish, though this is something that applies to all airlines : no VAT or "eco" tax, that the rest of us have to pay.
In a sense, economics is entirely about what people like and dislike.
I’m sure positive externalities are a thing, but direct benefits to one party in a transaction aren’t externalities.
Of course, nobody is twisting the arm of these politicians. But the fact remains that Ryanair is exploiting this weakness to avoid paying themselves.
Type "Ryanair airport subsidies" in google and have a look at the first couple of titles. It's a mess that has been going on for 10 years now and is only now slowly being called a halt to.
https://www.transportenvironment.org/press/24-ryanair-airpor...
Brussels itself is only 1h54 from central London!
And that distance stuff is normal, because on the longer distances you're going on high-speed trains. If you were a Millwall (a London team) fan who lived just south of The Den and by some divine chance you were to play Arsenal (another London team) at The Emirates (god forbid), it'd take you just as long by transit to get there as it would take someone who's commuting from Market Harborough (80 miles North) to St. Pancras (London's big international rail terminus). But it's laughable to claim that Market Harborough is part of London or that either of the Emirates and the Den are not.