Ryanair has said that its winter routes from Ireland will be 'running behind' where they were in 2019 because the recovery here has been slower than in other countries.
"Many, many other European countries are putting incentive schemes in place to drive recovery," said Dara Brady, Marketing Director for Ryanair.
"We're probably only running at about between 60% and 70% of recovery in Ireland, where we're running at - for example - over 100% in Italy."
Speaking on Newstalk's The Hard Shoulder, Mr Brady added: "So our winter schedules are going to be still running behind where we would have been in 2019 in Ireland. We really need to see some action from Minister [Eamon] Ryan, in particular, in terms of actioning the recommendations from the Aviation Taskforce report that's sitting on his desk.
"We think that if the Government was to push on and to incentivise tourism recovery here, that our growth would be far greater".
Despite this setback for some routes over the months ahead, the low-cost airline has been boosted by the ever-growing number of people who want to avail of air travel.
Last month, Ryanair had 11 million passengers which represents an increase of 2m from July, and double what it carried in June.
Mr Brady said in relation to its Irish business, the low-cost airline is "probably about 75/80% of the way back in terms of the recovery."
As for Ryanair's wider schedules across Europe, she said that "we're looking towards heading for 90%".
Earlier this week, Ryanair launched its autumn sale, making 100,000 seats available to more than 60 destinations across Europe.
Prices started from as little as €9.99 one way and depart from five Irish airports: Dublin, Cork, Shannon, Knock and Kerry.
Passengers must fly between September 9 and October 31, which means there are deals to be found for the mid-term break which starts on October 25.
In a statement released to the Irish Mirror, a Ryanair spokesperson said that city breaks are becoming more popular at this time of year, due to children returning to schools.
"As Ryanair’s traffic continues to rise – with over 11m passengers in August - Irish customers are availing of very low fares to beaches in Portugal, Spain and Italy and as children return to school we are starting to see strong demand for city breaks in Budapest, Lisbon and Barcelona.”
