Aviation

Eamon Ryan must resign over ‘idiotic’ Dublin Airport passenger cap stance, Ryanair insists

Europe’s largest airline says new flights will go to Manchester, London and Glasgow unless 32 million cap is lifted

Eamon Ryan, the transport minister, and Michael O’Leary, the Ryanair boss, have clashed over the proposal to increase Dublin Airport’s 32 million passenger cap

Ryanair has called on transport minister Eamon Ryan to resign, after a number of Green Party TDs, including junior ministers in his own party and MEP’s, raised objections to the lifting of the 32 million passenger cap at Dublin Airport.

In a statement on Friday, Europe’s largest airline by passenger numbers, warned that unless the “idiotic” passenger cap is lifted “then all growth and new flights will bypass Dublin, and instead go to London, Manchester, ...