The carrier says it has been offered one million less seats than required to meet demand at Dublin Airport this winter
Ryanair has warned prices of flights could rise at Dublin Airport due to the current cap on passenger numbers.
"This winter Ryanair sought to grow by +9% and carry 7.5 million passengers to/from Dublin Airport while also launching 15 new routes but due to this artificial traffic cap - a planning condition from 2007, almost 20 years ago - has only been allocated 6.4 million seats."Ryanair said it has already"been forced" to switch three aircraft, 16 new routes and over 200 jobs to Italy for the summer"which would have gone to Dublin".
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