Id just like to point out that this is not neccesarily fair. The UK competition authority has juristiction over any market place in the UK, including for travel between the Uk and another nation. As such EI and Ryanair have a significant part of the UK-Ireland airline travel market, so they certainly are within their right to investigate to seek to protect UK consumers.
It can work both ways. It just happens to be that most of the UK-Ireland market is served by Irish airlines.
It is purely a political act by Lib D
heads nothing more nothing less.
If there was an issue then it was there when the original takeover attempt took place and then was deemed not worthy of investigation by OFT.
If OFT are allowed carry out this then they setting the precedence for any EU country to get involved in any takeover where trading is occuring in that country and trust me they will.
OFT as usual showing what a bunch of idiots they are.