This information comes from a press release signed by the CEO Rygge Civil Airport AS, Pål F. Tandberg. The Board has concluded that the traffic will be going normally until November 1, 2016.
Chief director at Rygge civil Airport AS, Pål F. Tandberg, says there is no basis for the continued operation of civil aviation.
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– the Board of Moss Airport Rygge has today concluded that there is no basis for further operations after november 1 with civilian air traffic. It is based on air passenger tax, it means we are not competitive. When we lose two thirds of our volume. There is a suggested volume that Ryanair will confirm next week, says Tandberg NRK.
Have sent out information
The employees shall have been notified.
– We have sent out information, but the board meeting has just ended. It is regrettable that because of the tax must discontinue operations in November this year, he said.
Now, therefore airport closed until revised national is adopted.
– We has worked for over six months to try to influence this charge. It is clear we have to deal with the decisions that are taken. And the volumes flysekskapene suggests with this charge is so low, that we will go with over a hundred million in losses. Then board the needed steps in the company, he said.
Will not comment further
Hans-Jørgen Elnæs, Communications for Ryan Air, would not comment on the closure.
– We have no comments on this. We have highlighted our stance towards the media in Norway before, and beyond that we have nothing to add, says Hans-Jørgen Elnæs, Communications in Ryanair NRK.
Gurli Høeg Ulverud, communications manager at Avinor can not say anything about Ryanair move routes to the airport.
– It can not we verify. What is public is that the company has reserved slots on the Oslo Civilian Airport from 1 September They booked four arrivals / departures daily. We do not know if they are going to benefit from it or not. The company must even answer, she said.
Mister many jobs
Mayor Moss, Tage Pettersen says he still has a little hope that the airport was not closed down.
Photo: Kathrine Low / NRK
Mayor of Moss, Tage Pettersen, says the closure is regrettable.
– the Board’s conclusion is very regrettable. But there is something they have warned a while, that they may come to do it, and today we got it terribly boring message that from November 1 is the hook on the door. It is a dramatic message for Mosse region and the whole of Østfold, he said.
But he has not completely given up hope.
– Revised budget shall, through Parliament, so I put my last hopes on it hopefully can be something there that makes airport turns. But if it should happen, it is somewhere between 500 and 1,000 that are lost. It will have dramatic consequences for a region that already have high unemployment, he said.
– It’s a disaster
Head of the Parliamentary industry committee, Geir Pollestad, believes this is a disaster.
– It’s a disaster for Moss region and Østfold that about a thousand people could lose their jobs as a consequence of that the government has chosen to implement air passenger tax, despite the fact that they have been aware of the consequences, he says to NTB.
– I expect the Minister of finance and Minister of transport as soon as possible go to Rygge to meet people and explain why the government failed to drop the fee in the revised budget, he said.
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