Ryanair to cut winter flights by 16% as tourist tax bites
BUDGET airline Ryanair is to slash its 2010/11 winter capacity by 16 per cent.
Ryanair will be cutting winter flights at most of its UK bases, except Edinburgh and Leeds Bradford, and will fly two million fewer passengers overall than last winter. Chief executive Michael O'Leary cited the "damaging" Air Passenger Duty (APD), which the Government is considering replacing with a per-plane tax.
Ryanair said it would switch its London-based aircraft "to other European bases where governments had scrapped tourist taxes and reduced passenger charges, in some case to zero.
Mr O'Leary said: "Sadly, UK traffic and tourism continues to collapse while Ryanair continues to grow rapidly in those countries which welcome tourists instead of taxing them.
"Ryanair's capacity cutbacks show just how much the UK's tourist tax and (airport operator) BAA's high airport charges are damaging UK tourism and the British economy generally."
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