Ryanair has launched a campaign – at Brussels Zaventem Airport – to encourage all EU citizens to turn out and vote in the EU elections on 6 – 9 June.
At the launch, Ryanair group chief executive, Michael O’Leary pointed out that the enormous growth of low fare airline travel across the EU would not have been possible without the success of the EU single market and the deregulation of air travel, which freed EU citizens from the State-owned high fare flag carriers in the 1970s and 80s.
Mr O’Leary said: “Low fare air travel has been one of the great successes of the EU single market. Brexit has shown, however, that these freedoms and gains can be lost, so is imperative that all EU citizens, particularly Ryanair’s 200 million passengers, turn out to vote in the EU elections on 6 – 9 June.”
“We strongly encourage all EU citizens to vote in favour of those parties who support the deregulation of air travel and who support the growth of low fare air travel, the freedom of movement of EU citizens across Europe. We wish to see tourism and jobs across the regions of Europe grow and thrive over the next decade and Ryanair is investing heavily in new fuel-efficient aircraft to deliver this growth in air travel while reducing our fuel consumption and CO2 emissions on a per passenger basis.”
