Ryanair cancelling flights to Pescara

Just saw this on the Local.
 Ryanair to stop flights into Pescara and a couple of other Italian destinations.

http://www.thelocal.it/jobs/article/ryanair-to-cut-600-jobs-in-italy-amid-tax-hikes

Also pulling out of Alghero

This is what the International Air Travel Association has to say about this debacle http://www.iata.org/pressroom/pr/Pages/2016-01-25-01.aspx
Losses everywhere! 

It is still cheaper than the £13 charged in Air Passenger Duty by the UK so maybe Italy is just catching up!

I am under the impression that the tax issue is just an excuse. Ryanair is increasing frequencies and destinations from Pisa airport as from summer 2016 http://airlineroute.net/category/ryanair/

Herein Sicily, it seems that Ryanair has decided to provide direct competition with Alitalia on their routes, to the detriment of the established ryanair routes - which is a great shame, and will all get rather ugly I suspect.