Ryanair, Ireland’s favourite airline, today (Wed 6^th Mar) called on Green Transport Minister, Eamon Ryan, to explain why he won’t intervene in the planning process to scrap the 32m Dublin Airport cap when he had no problem intervening in the planning for the Shannon LNG facility in 2022 (see copy attached). Ryanair looks forward to its first meeting with Minister Ryan tomorrow (Thurs 7^th Mar) at its Airside offices. Ryanair will be asking Minister Ryan to explain why he won’t intervene in the Dublin traffic cap planning process, why he is failing to deliver his National Aviation Policy which is to grow traffic, tourism, and jobs, and why he is squandering Ireland’s ETS revenues on school buses (a Dept of Education budget) rather than investing in greening Irish aviation.

Transport Minister Eamon Ryan must take urgent action to scrap the Dublin Airport traffic cap, especially when Dublin has recently opened a 2^nd runway taking capacity to 60m but aviation and jobs growth is being blocked by an artificial 32m traffic cap.  

Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary said:

“We look forward to our first meeting with Transport Minister Ryan tomorrow. We look forward to explaining Ryanair’s plan to grow Irish traffic by 50% over the next 6 years to 2030; our plan to reach net zero by 2050; and asking Minister Ryan when he plans to take action to scrap Dublin’s absurd traffic cap by intervening as he did in the Shannon LNG planning process in 2022; and when he will start using Irish passenger ETS revenues of over €200m p.a. to incentivise Ireland’s supply of SAF’s rather than subsidising the Dept of Education school bus budget.

We look forward to hearing Minister Ryan’s plans to deliver growth under his National Aviation Policy, when sadly for 4 years he doesn’t appear to have any growth plans.”