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Ryanair has become the most important airline on the Canary Islands in 2011. With over 4,3 million passengers, it has beaten Air Europa, for years the airline that brought most passengers to Canarian airports.
In 2011, Ryanair brought 77% more passengers than in 2010. Most of this is due to Spanish grants to airlines which doubled their numbers or opened up new routes, to which Ryanair has responded aggressively. Other airlines however, could not keep up at all and have lost passengers in 2011.
These grants have now been stopped, and everybody is curious as to what Ryanair's policy regarding the Canary Islands wil become. Will they keep on sending their planes to the Canary Islands? According to Ryanair, no decision has been taken yet.
The new Spanish minister for tourism, (the Canarian) José Manuel Soria, has promised that while there's an end to the grants, airport taxes in the Canary Islands will become much lower. This way, he hopes, airlines like Ryanair will not take their passengers to cheaper destinations.
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