Ryanair will refund €3 tourist tax once abolition confirmed
17-May-2011 Ryanair, Ireland’s largest airline, today (17th May) welcomed the axing of the €3 tourist tax and confirmed that passengers who paid the tax on advance bookings can apply for refund of the tax once the Government confirms the effective date for the abolition of this damaging tax on visitors.
No admin fees will apply to these tourist tax refunds.
Ryanair continues to explore proposals for rapid traffic growth which it presented to the Dept of Transport and has the potential to deliver up to 5m incremental passengers p.a. at Dublin, Cork and Shannon Airports over the next 5 years.
Ryanair's Stephen McNamara said
"Ryanair passengers who made bookings to travel to/from Irish airports will be able to apply for a refund of the €3 tourist tax once details of the effective date for the abolition of the tax are confirmed.
Ryanair continues to work with Minister Varadkar and the Dept of Transport to see if a competitive low cost package can be developed at Irish airports which would enable Ryanair to deliver rapid tourism and jobs growth for Ireland. Hopefully the high cost DAA obstacles can be removed to enable Ryanair to deliver desperately needed tourism and jobs growth for Ireland over the next five years."