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Old 14th May 2011, 11:08
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Did you really mean that because if you did then lets see in 2010
Ancillary revenue was €664 million
Providing an accurate estimation of Ryanair’s total income from airport subsidies is a highly hazardous endeavor. Because of the inherently private nature of bilateral agreements between airports and the airline, there is hardly a reliable way of keeping proper tracking of the exact amount of subsidies given to Ryanair and of the number of airports doing so. However, extrapolations based on known facts and data about airport’s and Ryanair can provide an idea of what airport’s subsidies represent in the company’s total revenues. In March 2010, competing airline company Air France-KLM filed a lawsuit in Bruxelles against Ryanair on grounds that it was receiving illegal aids and disrupting competition. In doing so the attacking company provided some estimations of the amount of aid received by Ryanair. According to its own, allegedly conservative, estimation, the Irish airline benefits from at least € 10 to € 11 subsidies per passenger. An in-depth look would reveal that this was actually calculated from average subsidies per passengers from French airports and extrapolated to the rest of Europe. But recent inquiries into the legality of state-aids received by Ryanair all over Europe would tend to corroborate the fact that Ryanair does benefit from airport subsidies all over Europe. Such per passenger amounts lead to a gross estimation of total state-aid received of around € 665 million, postulating an average € 10 per passenger transported: 66,5 million (scheduled passengers in 2010) x € 10 (lower-end estimation of per passenger state-aids received) = € 665 million Interestingly, and as has been widely underlined, such amount of state-aid represent a large part of Ryanair’s operating revenue, and, from an accounting point of view, any loss of it would jeopardize Ryanair’s yearly revenue.

Sorry if I'm behind the times; what court case?
As recently as September 2010 Ryanair was brought to court in France in a case related to workers on its Marseille base. Ryanair is being accused of fiscal dumping by declaring its workers in Ireland when they actually live and exercise their work from France. The case is centered on the fact that Ryanair’s employees based in France are in an illegal situation. Although European legislation concerning mobile workers states that these are considered to be working in the country of registration of the vessel they work on, a French decree from 2006 regarding cabin crew and pilots working in France superseding European rule states the contrary. Implications regarding that conundrum had been raised as early as the beginning of 2010, at in which point, Ryanair, through its CEO, stated that, were legal proceedings to be engaged, the company would close its Marseille base. Following the beginning of the legal battle, Ryanair put its menace to execution and announced, in October 2010, that it would close its Marseille base and thirteen routes from that base. The company has announced that it would plead against the decree, declared that it was behaving in accordance with European law and would take the case to a European court.This announce has been received in France with mixed feelings and upon declarations by French government officials that contradictions between French and European law were proving a bit costly it remains highly doubtful whether the case will turn out against Ryanair. However, recent evolutions of the case seem to indicate that the airline is now at risk of losing that battle. After a French deputy asked, in an open question to the European parliament, whether Ryanair employee’s situation at Marseille was legal, the deputies answered by stating that airline employees based in a foreign country are not covered by European directive 96/71/CE and should pay social contributions and taxes inthe country they live and work.

All and all what this means no matter what side of the ryanair fence you sit is that the Ryanair CEO has managed over the years to get under the skin of a great many people, some of them in powerful positions, these people have learnt not to attempt to confront mol head on, so are now instead useing legel proceedings, if some or all of them come out against Ryanair then the company's approach to the market would have to change. Its airfares would have to increase to that of its nearest rivals.
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