OREANDA-NEWS. April 18, 2011. Ryanair, Ireland’s favourite airline, today (18th Apr) called on the new Irish Govt to deliver ‘change and reform’ in Irish tourism by breaking up the failed DAA monopoly after Dublin Airport February traffic figures declined again by 3%, having previously fallen 14% in February 2010, as tourist taxes and the DAA’s high fees continue to damage Irish tourism and jobs. Meanwhile Ryanair’s February traffic grew 5% to 4.6m passengers.
 
Ryanair believes that Irish traffic and tourism can be rescued, and falling traffic reversed by:
 
Scrapping the tourist tax
Reversing the DAA’s 40% price increases since 2010
Breaking up the failed DAA monopoly (which was modelled on the UK’s failed BAA monopoly which is now being broken up by the Competition Commission) and,
the early sale of Dublin’s two terminals and both Cork and Shannon airports to competing operators.