"We have a daily flight to Prague, during the draw, all the remaining seats on those flights on the Wednesday, Thursday, Friday were all sold out. So before the draw was even concluded yesterday, we're completely full on our daily flight to Prague. What do we do? We added, within an hour of the draw yesterday, we had an extra 15 flights going out to Prague and returning from Prague on that week. Now the reality of those flights is the returns are empty"
"So, while the prices are more expensive than we would normally charge, if we really wanted to price gouge people, we would have added one or two extra flights. We added fifteen extra flights. Fares are available on those flights between €300 and €400 each way. The return fare would be between €600 and €700, but that has to cover the cost of the empty flights coming the other way,"
Flights to Prague for the fixture were priced between €650 and €900 return. Ryanair's CEO said daily flights sold out after the draw, prompting the airline to add 15 extra flights within an hour. Many of the added services have empty return legs, so fares must cover the cost of those empty returns. Ryanair cited one-way fares of €300–€400 and return fares of about €600–€700 to account for the empty legs. Fine Gael Senator Mark Duffy described the increases as cynical and called for a pricing review; the Ryanair CEO strongly rejected those criticisms.
Read at Irish Independent
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