The Air Travel Tax (Irish: Cáin Aerthaistil) was an Irish tax applied to flights departing from airports in Ireland.
[2] As the differential rate was considered by the EU to be an interference with the internal market, this was changed to a flat rate of €3 from 1 March 2011.
The tax was opposed by airlines and the tourism industry.
Initially the €10 tax was going to cover all flights over 300 km (186 miles), but this would have disadvantaged non-Dublin airports.
Smaller airports are also excepted,[4] of which only one has any scheduled flights to begin with; as are planes with fewer than 20 passenger seats.