Ryanair cuts summer Dublin capacity
Wednesday, 22 Jan, 2010
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Rising charges and a €10 tourist tax has been blamed by Ryanair for cutting summer capacity a Dublin airport by 20%
The cuts come a week after Bmi announced the closure of its Dublin base and a reduction in its Dublin-Heathrow flights from seven to four this summer.
Ryanair expects total traffic at Dublin airport to fall by two million to 18 million this year.
The airline’s cutbacks include:
*A 17% cut in Dublin based summer fleet (from 18 in 2009 to 15 aircraft in 2010).
*A 19% cut in weekly rotations (from over 600 to less than 500).
*A 20% cut in Ryanair’s Dublin traffic from 8.7m to approx 6.5m in the year to March 2011.
*The loss of 150 pilot, crew and engineer jobs and over 2,000 support jobs at Dublin.
Further cuts in Ryanair’s Dublin winter schedule will be announced later, the airline said.
At the same time Ryanair announced extra holiday flights from Dublin in June, July and August to destinations including Alicante, the Canary Islands, Faro and Malaga.
The additional peak summer flights will take up much of the summer sun capacity lost as a result of the closure of Budget Travel and other tour operators, the airline said.
CEO Michael O’Leary said: “The Dublin Airport Authorty’s high costs and the Government’s €10 tourist tax have already cost Ireland more than three million passengers in 2009.
“Today’s further cut backs means Ryanair will carry two million less passengers at Dublin and one million fewer passengers at Shannon in 2010/11.
“Irish tourism is now suffering a Govt induced tourism collapse under the weight of the €10 tourist tax and the extraordinary anti-consumer order by the Department of Transport (to the Aviation Regulator) to approve increases in DAA fees of 40% to pay for a Terminal 2 which Dublin’s airlines neither want nor need.
“At a time when governments and airports all over Europe are scrapping taxes and slashing fees to win Ryanair’s traffic growth, sadly the Irish government is more interested in protecting its high cost DAA monopoly at the expense of consumers or of our tourism industry and until this damaging policy is reversed, Dublin Airport and Irish tourism will continue to suffer traffic cuts and job losses.”
by Phil Davies
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