Ryanair announces EUR10 seats
26-Nov-2008 |
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Ryanair called (25-Nov-08) on Aer Lingus to scrap its unfair and unjustified fuel surcharges as oil prices have fallen by over 70%. Ryanair pointed out that passengers are deserting high fare, high fuel surcharging, airlines like Aer Lingus in favour of Ryanair’s low fares and no fuel surcharge flights instead.
Ryanair’s October traffic figures showed traffic growing 18% to 5.35million passengers. Aer Lingus latest figures showed their long haul traffic collapsing by 11% because their fuel surcharge rip-off is turning away long haul passengers.
Speaking today, Ryanair’s Stephen McNamara said:
“We call on Aer Lingus, the high fares, fuel surcharging airline to end its fuel surcharge rip-off and remove its fuel surcharge to reflect the fall in oil price to less than $50 per barrel. There is no excuse for Aer Lingus ripping off its passengers with unjustified fuel surcharges when oil prices have fallen by 70%. We call on the National Consumer Agency to review the Aer Lingus fuel surcharge as part of its investigation into fuel prices and highlight just how much Aer Lingus is overcharging its passengers.
Ryanair is the only airline where passengers can be guaranteed the lowest fares and no fuel surcharge. To celebrate the fall in oil prices and the fact that Ryanair guarantees no fuel surcharges we are releasing 1 million EUR10 seats for travel in December, January and February. These EUR10 seats, which are just one tenth of the cost of Aer Lingus’s fuel surcharge, are available for booking before midnight Sunday 30th November at www.ryanair.com. As demand for these free seats will be enormous, we urge passengers to log on immediately and secure their EUR10 seat.”
(c) Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation. Date posted: 26-Nov-08 For in-depth analysis of the low cost airline sector worldwide, subscribe now to the peerless Peanuts! Weekly
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