Ryanair says it’s confident the Junior Transport Minister “will do nothing about” its demands around the Dublin Airport Passenger cap.
The airline has repeated its call for the Government to step in and scrap the 32 million passenger limit.
Junior Minister James Lawless met with Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary to discuss the cap.
The passenger cap at Dublin Airport was introduced in 2007 as a planning condition attached to the construction of the airport’s second terminal.
However calls for a lifting of the cap has repeatedly fallen on deaf ears, when Michael O’Leary has raised it.
Previously he labelled the Transport Minister Eamon Ryan as a ‘dunce’, as well as claiming fares will sky rocket.
Last week, DAA said the limit would reach 33 million by the end of 2024. It has been in a lengthy process to have the limit increased.
“There are real daily challenges being posed by this,” Michael O’Leary said.
“All of this is solvable if Eamon Ryan simply issues a directive to the IAA to issue these additional slots this winter and next summer while the planning process plays itself out.”
In response, the Junior Minister said, “There’s a legal and planning dimension to it, I don’t think that we can get a one size fits all quick solution here.”
