Ryanair hits out at ASA
Ryanair has launched an attack on the Advertising Standards Authority, claiming it is trying to prevent the airline making statements regarding Air Passenger Duty in its advertising.
It claims the ASA is attempting to prevent it from telling customers that “aviation accounts for just 2% of CO2 emissions”.
Ryanair says the ASA is also trying to stop it from stating that “not a penny of Gordon Brown’s APD has been spent on the environment”.
The airline claims it has written to the Treasury on two separate occasions but the Treasury has refused to provide any reply as to where any of the £1bn increased revenue from Gordon Brown’s tax is being spent.
“For as long as this travel tax scam continues, Ryanair will continue to use both of these factually accurate statements in its advertising,” said a Ryanair statement.
“To highlight this scam, Ryanair is releasing five million seats for just £10 for travel between September and March. All passengers have to pay is Greedy Gordon’s £10 travel tax scam.”
By Bev Fearis
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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