TODAY might be April Fool’s Day, but an airline really has been flying its staff to and from Dublin on empty flights in a row over €113,000.

An airline which advertised for actors to fly backwards and forwards between Norwich and Dublin to boost passenger numbers may be penalised, airport bosses warned today.

An airport boss today accused budget airline bosses of unnecessarily damaging the environment so that they could earn a rebate worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.