Ryanair urges Brussels Airlines to not accept money from the Belgian state plan for national airlines. The recent politically motivated effort to give a special incentive to the Belgian companies at BRU has sparked a fierce opposition of MOL, who called the scheme discriminatory. Is Ryanair being treated unfair? Well, the federal government has allocated an annual budget of € 19 million airport to cover the security costs at Brussels National to all airlines that carry annually over 400 thousand pax from/to Zaventem. However, in the next three years the money will be given only to the companies that met this criterion in 2012. As the result, the security costs' reimbursement will get only Thomas Cook, Brussels Airlines and Jetairfly, not FR.
Sources say Ryanair is one of the two companies that have already complained to the European Commission demanding an investigation into the matter.