Just wait for FR's famous 50p fares...
From today's Scotsman...
£5 to Dublin as air fares war grows
Alastair Jamieson and Alastair Dalton
THE air fares war on routes between Scotland and Ireland intensified last night, as Ryanair cut the price of tickets between Glasgow and Dublin to just £5.
The move by the budget airline follows the announcement earlier this week that its rival, Go, would offer flights between Edinburgh or Glasgow and Dublin for £10.
Both airlines will start flying on the routes at the end of the summer. It is the first time Ryanair has competed directly with another low cost airline on an identical route.
The price war comes as a record number of people fly out of Glasgow airport at the start of the Glasgow Fair.
As many as 115,000 are expected to join the exodus - 3 per cent more than last year.
The Ryanair offer will apply to all seats during the first two months of its Edinburgh-Dublin service. The route was announced on Thursday to take on Go’s new service, unveiled last week . Kathryn Munro, Ryanair’s Scotland sales manager, said of its £5 offer: "There is only one low-fares airline in Europe. Ryanair’s fare is half the price of Go’s lowest fare and is available twice as long."
However, Barbara Cassani, chief executive of Go, said:
"Ryanair could have offered low fares to travellers between Dublin and Scotland years ago, but they didn’t.
"Instead, they chose to cynically charge people fares up to £239."