The travel tax is just a convenient smokescreen for Ryanair to blame their current woes on while carefully avoiding mention of the real cause of all their troubles.
What specifically are you referring to as woes? The fact that they are reducing overall UK capacity this winter? So what is actually the real cause of all their troubles? Enlighten us. Remember Ryanair exists to make a profit which they achieved in their last financial year (€319m after tax) and at present expect to do so again in the current year.
If you look at the Ryanair website you'll see they're expanding at LBA after announcing there would be no further expansion in the UK until the travel tax is abolished.....unless of course LBA is exempt from the travel tax.....
I think you'll find that it's more that they're just not contracting for the winter period. Sucked in once again by the Ryanair
PR you so love to hate!