Also announced in the Catalan press today that Girona (which in its day pre BCN had around 13-15 based aircraft ) would be closed if the Spanish Govt didn't drop some passenger tax of some variety.
But it's OK for RYR to impose RYR taxes (sorry charges) quite arbitrarily on its pax: e.g. the wheelchair tax, the calamity tax(= volcano flight cancellation tax) which generate €160m per year and is hardly spent, the increase in credit card tax, the administration tax even though you do all the work, etc. etc. RYR stopped German flights and threatened to stop Dutch flights after government environmental tax of €2 was charged, at the same time as RYR introduced the €2 calamity tax.
In the DT 2012 it was calculated that RYR's add-on charges had doubled since 2006. Go figure. If they are going to do it, then just do it, but stop the hypocrisy; it's insulting.