More trouble for Ryanair!
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More trouble for Ryanair!
16 September 2003
Severe turbulence hits Ryanair’s £4m Swedish deal
Ryanair’s run-ins with regulatory authorities across Europe continues, with a Swedish advertising deal declared illegal less than 24 hours after Alitalia announced the ‘moment had arrived’ to consider legal challenges against the airline. Swedish broadsheet Dagens Industri reports that a SEK 55m (£4.2m) deal between Ryanair and the authority running the Nykoeping district has been declared illegal. Ryanair planes were planning to advertise the area for the next decade. However, the local court declared the deal illegal because the council didn’t put its advertising contract out to tender. The tender process has re-started. The Alitalia news came out of a press conference following the Italian flag carrier’s H1s results yesterday. Director General Giuseppe Bonomi, without mentioning Ryanair by name, said: ‘We believe the moment has arrived to make recourse to legal means because we believe that there is a case for state aid since these companies enjoy a very privileged situation. They have free handling services and discounts in terms of airport rights.’
Severe turbulence hits Ryanair’s £4m Swedish deal
Ryanair’s run-ins with regulatory authorities across Europe continues, with a Swedish advertising deal declared illegal less than 24 hours after Alitalia announced the ‘moment had arrived’ to consider legal challenges against the airline. Swedish broadsheet Dagens Industri reports that a SEK 55m (£4.2m) deal between Ryanair and the authority running the Nykoeping district has been declared illegal. Ryanair planes were planning to advertise the area for the next decade. However, the local court declared the deal illegal because the council didn’t put its advertising contract out to tender. The tender process has re-started. The Alitalia news came out of a press conference following the Italian flag carrier’s H1s results yesterday. Director General Giuseppe Bonomi, without mentioning Ryanair by name, said: ‘We believe the moment has arrived to make recourse to legal means because we believe that there is a case for state aid since these companies enjoy a very privileged situation. They have free handling services and discounts in terms of airport rights.’
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We believe the moment has arrived to make recourse to legal means because we believe that there is a case for state aid since these companies enjoy a very privileged situation. They have free handling services and discounts in terms of airport rights.
It´s the the same old story about pots calling kettles black...
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According to the BBC, Ryanair will have to wait up to a year until their appeal into the Strasbourg case is heard in the meantime they are banned from operating there....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3119926.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3119926.stm
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FR withdrew the route when the subsidies were withdrawn. They are not banned from flying it, but flying the route without the subsidies would encourage other airports to refuse too.
FR withdrew the route when the subsidies were withdrawn. They are not banned from flying it, but flying the route without the subsidies would encourage other airports to refuse too.
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Things for Ryanair going from bad to worse judging by this report http://www.icderry.icnetwork.co.uk/n...dex.cfm?page=2
Last edited by ALLMCC; 19th Sep 2003 at 22:26.
