Ryanair wants more of €6m spent on flying civil servants

Ryanair has called on the Government to review its policy on travel arrangements for civil servants after it emerged only a fraction of more than €6m spent on air travel last year was with budget airlines.

Ryanair said the figures demonstrated the need for an official inquiry into the travel costs of “fat-cat” civil servants.

Figures provided by the National Procurement Service (NPS) show that €6,044,443 was spent on air tickets for civil servants last year, a 10.6% rise on expenditure for air travel in 2010.