Ryanair, which reduced its number of flights from Shannon because of the 10 euro travel tax, has welcomed the decision by the Minister of Finance to scrap the tax for small peripheral airports.
It has renewed its call for it to be scrapped from airports where tourism and traffic is really being damaged, such as Dublin which has suffered 150,000 passenger fall in January, and Shannon, where traffic is likely to fall by 30% this year.
Ryanair has repeatedly confirmed that the scrapping of the tourist tax would see the reversal of the recent Ryanair cuts announced at Dublin and Shannon. It highlighted that 150m euro could be saved annually by closing irrelevant quangos such as Tourism Ireland, Fáilte Ireland and the useless Commission for Aviation Regulation.
