Leo, who is actually going to sue whom in that morass? All the quotations are taken from the today's press.
Ryanair said on Tuesday it would sue the European Commission for not taking action against governments which give aid to national flag carriers that the Irish budget airline believes is illegal.
Ryanair said it submitted complaints involving Air France , Lufthansa, Alitalia and Olympic Airways to the Commission over a year ago.
"These complaints involved hundreds of millions of euro in illegal state aids being granted by the French, German, Italian and Greek governments," Ryanair said in a statement.
"Although Ryanair has called on the Commission several times to investigate these claims, the Commission has failed to do so."
But later:
EU regulators launched investigations Tuesday into government subsidies designed to attract airlines to small airports in Germany and Finland, singling out Ryanair Holdings PLC and easyJet for getting airport fees so low they may be illegal.
The European Commission opened separate investigations into Berlin Schoenefeld, Luebeck Blankensee and Dortmund airports in Germany and Tampere Pirkkala in Finland, saying it needed to check if low airport fees and favorable contracts might be a form of state aid that gives several airlines an unfair advantage over rivals.
If officials find the benefits cannot be justified by EU subsidy rules, the money would need to be repaid to the state.
EasyJet gets special treatment from Berlin Schoenefeld, the EU executive arm said, benefiting from an exclusive rental contract for one terminal that may be below fair market rates, while Ryanair pays airport charges at Luebeck, Berlin Schoenefeld and Tampere Pirkkala that are well below what other airlines face.
Personally I wouldn't agree to pay the same fees as in Termimal 1 for using harsh and cramped Tampere's Terminal 2. T1 has much better premises, T2 is... well... very basic, let's say. And why has it been so difficult to find 1 million euros for the TMP T2's enlargement (they still didn't grant the money) while simultaneously the same officials didn't hesitate to grant 134 millions of euros needed to enlarge HEL Vantaa's terminal for Finnair?