Ryanair is to ask the High Court next Monday to restrain the owners of Kerry Airport from collecting a £5 airport development fee from Ryanair's passengers leaving for London.
Mr David Barniville, counsel for the airline, told Mr Justice Quirke yesterday that Kerry Airport plc and Kerry Holidays Ltd introduced the fee this summer.
He said the demand for the fee was causing pandemonium among passengers on the Kerry-London Stansted route. The airline would be seeking an interlocutory injunction banning the collection of the fee and restraining the owners and operators of the airport from harassing passengers about it.
His client's would contend the fee was in breach of Ryanair's agreement with the airport. Passengers had made serious complaints to Ryanair.
Mr Justice Quirke granted Ryanair leave to serve short service for Monday next on both defendants of its intention to seek the interlocutory injunction.