Dublin Airport passengers are being urged to book their flights early as possible as Ryanair fares are set to increase by the end of the year.
The airline announced a full recovery of its pre-pandemic passenger capacity and said that they intend on carrying 35% less people from Dublin.
And CEO Eddie Wilson said that prices in Europe are likely to rise before 2022.
He told Newstalk: "They'll probably go up this Christmas as well, and that's why you'd encourage people to book early.
"It's very simple: there's just less seats in Europe, and that's for a number of reasons.
"The larger airlines that are depending on state aid have had to cut back, and they've cut back on short haul.
"You've got airlines like EasyJet that have got smaller, Norwegian that are a fraction of the size that they were - so the number of seats have gone down."
The CEO is also insisting that Transport Minister Eamon Ryan do more for Dublin Airport as routes from Dublin "could be down" by up to 35% next summer.
Mr Wilson explained: "That's all the airports except Dublin - Cork, Kerry, Knock and Shannon are going to be all back to their full, 100%, pre-pandemic Ryanair traffic from next summer.
"We hope that we can close the deal with Dublin as well, because in fairness to the DAA they have a scheme in - but unfortunately the funding from Government runs out in June.
"And as you well know, airlines have to plan their capacity for the full season.
"So if that was extended from the current end date of June next year to the end of the summer season... then we would make the commitment to restore in full 100% of our traffic back into Dublin.
"Dublin has up to potentially 30 Ryanair aircraft there... if Eamon Ryan is listening, extend the scheme, give certainty to tourism and business so that we can plan for next summer - restore Dublin in full, just like we have the other four airports,” he said.
"At least we'll have the capacity in place, and then it's up to us to drive that through fares and promotion to fill the aircraft".
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