End of travel tax 'could create 1,000 jobs'

The Government's decision to abolish the €3 travel tax could create more than 1,000 jobs at Irish airports, Ryanair claimed today.

Announcing plans to grow its traffic at its Irish airports by at least 1m passengers per year from April 2014, the airline cited research by the Airport Council International (ACI), which it says demonstrates that 1,000 new jobs are created at international airports for every one million additional passengers delivered.