Ryanair announce flight cuts from Dublin

Ryanair have announced a series of route, flight and frequency cuts at Dublin Airport from July, blaming the impact of the €10 tourist tax to cause numbers at Dublin to go down 12% in February.

Ryanair confirmed that these latest cuts were being implemented in response to the decision of the Irish Aviation Authority to increase ATC charges by 12% this summer.

From July 2009, Ryanair will close four routes from Dublin to Basel, Doncaster, Oporto and Teesside.

The airline will also reduce flight frequencies on eight more routes from Dublin to Aberdeen, Biarritz, Billund, Bournemouth, Carcassonne, East Midlands, Malaga and Rome (Ciampino).