Ryanair, Ireland’s largest rip-off airline, are yet again whinging about the Irish €10 tourist tax at airports for arriving passengers. In a sarcastic press release they claim to welcome the May traffic figures published by Fáilte Ireland which confirmed that the collapse in air passenger traffic is accelerating as May traffic fell by 15%, much greater than the 10% decline of the first four months to April. Ryanair claim that the collapse in passenger numbers has increased since the government’s €10 tax was introduced.
What Ryanair fail to realise is that there has been a fall in airline passengers globally and that this has nothing to do with a €10 tourist tax. Perhaps the trouble here is that people are finally understanding that Ryanair are out to rip them off and are choosing to stay away?
Ryanair seem happy to moan and whinge about €10 tourist taxes yet happily add €100’s to the price of a €1.99 ticket in the name of check-in, baggage and credit card fees when, infact, all these charges amount to are Ryanair taxes!
Thanks for posting this item about Mick whinging again. This item re-iterates what I said in my last post regarding the reasons passenger numbers are dropping off. And all I want to do is laugh out loud at Ryanair’s stupidity!! “Please go bust, please go bust, please go bust, please go bust!! Come on everyone, if we think about it often enough, maybe and hopefully, us ripped off, fed up passengers and the poor exploited (contract) staff can be released from the nightmare that is Ruinair (to quote Paul Kilduffs book).
[note I do not work for anyone involved with travel in any country]
“… finally understanding that Ryanair are out to rip them off and are choosing to stay away?” I doubt it. I suggest that recession is biting deep and will go deeper still.
FR will always have customers because each year, a new bunch of youngster come of age to travel independently with no money and will use them. Many older folks will see the company for what it offers and use them accordingly. Go bust? Not till hell freezes over.