A Barcelona court has ruled that Ryanair cannot oblige passengers to print out boarding passes when booking tickets online or charge them €40 when they fail to do so. Judge Barbara Maria Cordoba found the contract clause “abusive and therefore null”. She said Ryanair was subject to international, European and national air navigation laws which oblige airlines to issue tickets for passengers. The ruling came after a Spanish lawyer lodged a complaint after being fined for not printing out a boarding pass for a flight to Italy. The judge said that her ruling was not firm and could not oblige Ryanair to stop applying the clause and she expected the case to be taken to the European Court of Justice. She said Spanish passengers now had a first judicial ruling to back their demands for the return of the penalty for not printing the pass.Ryanair will appeal.
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