Ryanair lobbies hard for air-line market liberalization

"Apart from that what we expect from the government is at least a secondary airport from Warsaw, which was promised a couple of years ago," said Michael O'Leary, president of Ryanair. To draw attention to its cause, the company will sell 100,000 tickets for zl.1. Ryanair is also asking customers to send in e-mails in support of the initiative, and is offering free tickets to the writers of the 100 best messages. Currently, the Civil Aviation Office imposes costs that Ryanair says prevent competition and further development. The changes would result in a dramatic increase of accessibility to cheap airline tickets. Within the next five years Ryanair plans to increase the number of passengers flying to or from Poland from the current 1.6 million to 10 million a year. Eventually, Ryanair wants to fly from 16 airports in Poland, and locate three overnight bases and a technical base in the country. (WBJ)