Ryanair boss hits out at Shannon

RYANAIR chief executive Michael O’Leary has claimed that Shannon Airport “has priced itself out of existence”.

The claim, contained in a letter to Clare County Council, immediately met with an angry response from the Shannon Airport Authority yesterday, which described the letter as “self-serving and having no basis in fact”.

In the letter, Mr O’Leary states that traffic at Shannon “has continued to implode” as a direct result of “unjustified Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) cost increases” and “will fall below 1.5 million in 2011”.