And you'd be in a position to offer an opinion on that!! Also a "case" which strongly argues if Dublin and its agencies used the £millions of yearly tourism funding fed to it by Belfast for the intended and legit purpose of promoting tourists flying to Belfast there would indeed be EVERY economic reason for losing APD in NI quick-smart!
That is to include NI in marketing not force people to fly to NI.
Exactly, on that basis the Dublin government ought to bring back APD to improve its finances. Until it gets axed nobody can prove it will or won't help grow passenger numbers but I sure as hell don't believe it helps, particularly as such a high percentage of flights are domestic
Why would they do that, the deficit is only around 2.5%, they had real commitments before it was scrapped and were told it would be restored if nothing happened. Do you think EZY would make a commitment to increase traffic by lets say 100 or 200,000 into BFS if it was scrapped. If airlines operating were serious about the tax they would make such commitments instead they would prefer for it to be scrapped and increase profits....
NI financial mess is like throwing stones in glass houses saying what you think the ROI should do.