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Justice allows airlines what Spain wants to fine. And who is winning is Ryanair

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The Superior Court of Justice of Madrid He has precautionary suspended sanctions of 179 million euros that consumption imposed to five airlines receivable the hand luggage. Companies will continue to invoice these services as an extra, at least until there is a final sentence. Why is it important. This judicial decision comes in full clash between Spanish and European regulations. Spain considers these practices illegal and sanctions them. The European Union Council expressly supports them. However, the latter has not yet been translated into current law, for the moment The European Parliament wants to restore its gratuity And then the inter -institutional negotiation will arrive. In figures. Ryanair and Norwegian have achieved precautionary measures contributing 110 and 1.8 million bank guarantees respectively. The magistrates argue that the fines are “very high” and their anticipated payment would cause “difficulties to the Treasury” of the airlines. This does not mean in any case that the court considers the fine illegitimate, only there are reasons to suspend it while judging. Ryanair heads the sanctions with 107 million, followed by Vueling (39.3), Easyjet (29,1), Norwegian (1.6) and Volotea (1,2). The total fine amounts to 179 million euros. The context. The EU Council reforms in June the European regulations for expressly allow collection by cabin suitcaseslimiting free luggage to packages of 40x30x15 centimeters. This reform, of course, must still be ratified by the European Parliament. But the European Parliament Transportation Commission this week approved a opposite proposal: That each passenger can wear a small bag and suitcase without additional cost. Between the lines. The European Commission has already opened a procedure against Spain for possible irregularities in these sanctions. Meanwhile, airlines press to maintain their freedom of rates. It is a clash between two ways of understanding the business of flying: Ryanair disaggregates everything that can be reduced to the basic ticket and fill the airplanes, something that explains its good profitability. Legislators want a basic ticket to include certain services that cannot be disaggregated. The only thing that all parts seem to coincide is to allow a small bag or backpack for free (40x30x15 cm). It is the minimum difference between plane traveling and traveling by subway. And now what. The proposal of the Parliament must go through the plenary in July and negotiate with the Member States. Until then, the airlines will maintain their current policies, which are also now backed by the Spanish judicial decision. Minister Pablo Bustinduy is confident that the position of the European Parliament prevails. The airlines, meanwhile, have won judicial legitimacy to continue charging hand luggage as extra. Outstanding image | In Xataka | The great secret of Ryanair’s success is that he does not earn money to fly: he does so squeezing you in everything else

Ryanair does not want indisciplined passengers. And besides leading them to trial, they will put their own fines

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Ryanair will apply a penalty of 500 euros to any passenger expelled from a flight for misconduct before takeoff. The measure seeks to be a deterrent element in the face of behaviors that interrupt the trip of the rest of the passengers and compromise security. An airline spokesman He explained that “it is unacceptable that passengers suffer unnecessary interruptions by the behavior of a single disruptive passenger.” The fine cannot be specified as such, so it is presented as the most expensive complementary rate of Ryanair. In detail. The Data from the European Union Air Security Agency They say that the safety of a flight is compromised every three hours for the bad behavior of a passenger. In addition, 70% of these cases involve some kind of aggression. Yes, but. The 500 euros are just the beginning. If there is a diversion of the flight because of the passenger, the demands shoot because Ryanair has an active legal persecution policy to recover all the associated costs: Extra fuel. Landing rates. Accommodation for the rest of the travelers in an extreme case. Replacement crew. Even on -board sales. And that persecution translates into concrete demands that go beyond 500 euros: The background. Michael O’Leary, CEO of the airline, already warned at the time about the increase in altercations on board, especially on routes to holiday destinations. In fact, proposed to limit alcohol consumption In airports to two drinks per boarding cards. The measure of their own fines as extra rates, in addition to the subsequent legal persecution, is the definition of a problem that affects the entire industry and that even affects travelers of other flights, which see the “delayed” poster appear because of the energumenos. Outstanding image | Nejc Soklič in Unspash In Xataka | The great secret of Ryanair’s success is that he does not earn money to fly: he does so squeezing you in everything else

At his departure from Valladolid, Ryanair has left an unexpected death injured: airport coffee

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Ryanair’s impact is not only counted by the number of flights he leaves in an airport. Not at least where they are a key piece in the operation of a regional square such as Valladolid, where Its march has reduced by 60% The number of travelers who pass through their facilities. Last January, the company announced that this summer would close operations at the Valladolid airport. The decision entered into the Pressure measures that the company is applying against the government for discrepancies related to the collection of hand suitcases or rates that Aena Cobra for operating in the facilities. This pressure tool translated into a reduction in operations in seven airports. In Vigo, for example, Ryanair has eliminated their seats by 61% available. But the highest figure is not always the one that does the most damage because you have to pay attention to the specific impact that the company has on the airport. And in Valladolid it was huge. So much that the volume of travelers at the city airport has been reduced by 63.2% According to data offered by AENA. But the company’s march not only has a direct impact on the offer of flights that are now available the Valladolid. It impacts the workers of the airport itself. Like those of its cafeteria. Three workers dismissed due to lack of work The story brings it first hand The North of Castile. The local media has interviewed César Carreras, a cafeteria dealer of the Valladolid airport who says that with the march of Ryanair, 80% of the clientele has vanished. In less than a year, Carreras has seen how the airport was emptied without Ryanair’s operations (which stopped operating on March 28) but with The previous flying of Vuelingwhich stopped offering the Valladolid-Barcelona route in June last year. Right now, Binter is the only company that operates the airport but has no daily trips. “This month They only work two days a week“, says the head of the cafeteria. Specifies that travelers have left but that there is also an employee hole, since only four workers of all employees that the company maintained in Valladolid remains in the facilities although performing other work. He explains that only the days that there are flights and just for three hours are exploding to cafeteria because the rest of the day the airport remains practically empty. He explains that now he only works the cafeteria and that he has had to fire three employees. At the moment, it remains in the concession because it would have “problems” to leave it and because it can give the service itself since it has another open business. When Ryanair announced that Valladolid left and Jerez and what reduced its operations I already talked about the decision would leave “Half -empty regional airports” although he blamed the march and reduction of operations to the alleged high rates of Aena. Those Aena rates They are the ones used to maintain the minimum services of an airport (security, cleaning …) and from the company ensure that they are extremely low in regional airports because there are multiple discounts to make them attractive. At the moment, they say, they are operating just two euros per passenger. What has long resonates is the fine that the Ministry of Consumption imposed on Ryanair for the collection of the hand luggage suitcase. For the Government, the allowed dimensions are extremely reduced and do not cover the definition of “essential” to which it obliges European regulations. Consequently imposed a sanction of more than 100 million euros. That fine was the one that precipitated everything, since Ryanair understands that without a more concrete definition he has no reason to let in the cabin that They exceed 40x20x25 cm measures collected in its most basic rate. Therefore, they assure that the collection for the cabin trolley It is perfectly legal. Something that seems, It will be ratified in a few months by the European Union itself. Photo | Fred Rivett and Fahmi Fakhrudin In Xataka | Curves are coming in summer: Ryanair wants more controllers in Spain and if he does not get them there will be delays

Ryanair has seriously injured to Valladolid airport. And that’s why threatens new cancellations this winter

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First they announced the exit. After there would be delays. Now they threaten more games. Ryanair has filed a pulse with the government following a historical fine and alleged Aena rates too high. And the most affected are the neighbors of the provincial capitals of our country. “They are not profitable routes”. And that is why Ryanair’s departure is logical and “it is possible to enter other regional airports in these changes.” These changes are cancellations of routes and the words are from Elena Cabrera, Country Manager of Ryanair in Spain, to questions from Spanish-Invertia. With them certifies the pressure policy that the company is doing in Spain, in response to a historical fine imposed by the Executive that has led to the company of some Spanish airports, seriously injuring its activity. What happened? Ryanair’s threat to leave more airports in Spain is not born from nothing. In November 2024, the Government certified a historical fine to various airlines Low Cost. The reason: they were charging for wearing a hand suitcase. The sanction for Ryanair It was more than 107 million euros. The fine imposed by the Ministry of Consumption is, in the eyes of Ryanair, illegal. They point out that they do let travel with a hand suitcase but that It should not exceed contained dimensions 40 x 20 x 25 cm. The battle on whether or not this is legal has arrived in Europe. Spain will have to give explanations in front of the EU Pilota mediating referee designed to resolve conflicts between the European Commission and the Member States. Essential. The origin of the conflict is in the word “essential.” That is the hand luggage that airlines are obliged to allow the passenger for free. Obviously, for the government there is no doubt: the reduced dimensions do not comply with the norm and the bulge cannot be qualified as “essential.” Ryanair believes the opposite. And the problem is that Not justice agrees. In Spain we have had sentences that contradict themselves. Cases in which passengers is right And Ryanair is forced to compensate them and cases in which he fails In favor of the company And the speech is bought that this backpack is enough to travel. AENA’s rates. Perhaps because abandoning Spain for the simple fine was too controversial or because, really, there is an economic reason in it, Ryanair assures that if he leaves Spain it is because of the high rates that the company charges for operating at its airports. These fees serve to pay the cleaning, safety or maintenance services of airports but for the Irish company They are too high. Aena defends himself by ensuring that There are multiple discounts that leave the operation at regional airports at a very low price. For the moment, Competition has forced Aena to freeze rates. 800,000 seats. Aware of its strength in some regional airports, Ryanair has abandoned Operations in Valladolid and Jerez de la Frontera this summer. And has reduced its presence in Vigo, Santiago, Zaragoza, Asturias and Santander. This has led to Valladolid for 60% of air traffic. In total, there are 12 routes that have been canceled or reduced their activity. According to Expansionin the balance for this summer, telling all the airlines, 92,000 seats have been lost to fly from Spain. Of the lost places, 75% are a consequence of Ryanair’s march of these airports. More tension. Now, Ryanair continues to stretch from the rope. Seen the impact they have claimed for months that regional airports They live “a terminal decline” For a long time. The lack of passengers is, they say, the main reason for their march. That they have not been covered by competitors “demonstrates that they are not profitable routes”, in the words of their country manager. However, we must bear in mind that the company has not been operating by volume in this type of route. As is happening With a flight from the Canary Islands to Morocco, It has been institutional advertising the one that has kept these lines alive. To the point that in some cases contracts have been broken that still remained active. Photo | Ivan Mihajlovic In Xataka | The great secret of Ryanair’s success is that he does not earn money to fly: he does so squeezing you in everything else

“Backpacks to travel with Ryanair”

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40 x 20 x 25 cm. Not one more centimeter. Those are the measures that Ryanair allows for his hand luggage on his regular flights. If you want to wear a trolley in the cabin, you pay it. The least that is the intention of the company and the reason that has led him to enter an open conflict with the Government of Spain and some courts of our country. In short, the Ministry of Consumption fined a few months ago with More than 100 million euros To the Irish company for not allowing the passenger to wear hand luggage on their flights, which is considered “essential” And it is mandatory to operate in Europe. Ryanair It defends itself Saying that of course it allows you to carry hand luggage but that there is no regulations that clearly specify what size it should be. And they put their rules: a backpack that does not exceed the measures 40 x 20 x 25 cm. The conflict, beyond the fine, has reached the courts because Some users They consider that the company continues to comply with their obligation to allow them to access the plane with a trolley once the government has fined them for what, they consider, an infraction. Justice, however, has issued positive results In favor of users but also In favor of the companyhence the legality or not of the norm remains in question. And given this situation, there are those who are doing their August selling “Ryanair backpacks.” The exact measures To verify that the passengers comply with their standards, the airline has metal drawers at the entrance of their flights where it measures the suitcases with which it is accessed inside. And various images suggest that Workers have the order to be inflexible. Keep in mind that Ryanair allows you to bill a suitcase that exceeds the aforementioned measures or, in any case, pay to take it on board on the plane. However, if the suitcase does not enter at the boarding door and a rate has not been chosen that allows it to take it on board, Ryanair will charge 50 euros for his turnover. Specific backpack for Ryanair on Amazon Specific backpacks for Ryanar in Aliexpress Demonstration of how to organize the suitcase to travel with a “backpack for Ryanair” Undoubtedly, it is the perfect ground for companies to get a good slice. A single consultation at Amazon reveals that “Ryanair backpacks” They have multiplied. The ads cannot be more explicit and always carry a brief description with the maximum measures occupied by the suitcase. Obviously: 40 x 20 x 25 cm. Any backpack that we find on the network with these measures or specifications seems taken from an origami exercise. Pockets everywhere, specific spaces for the mobile phone or other electronic devices, a loading to incorporate an internal battery for documentation and even photographs with the disposition that must wear bent clothes to maximize the interior space. Add a cabin suitcase to the Ryanair ticket costs 26 euros extra Backpack specialized companies have their own “backpack to travel with Ryanair” Others have added the company’s name to the commercial denomination of the model The price also plays with Ryanair’s own rate. The company charges 26 euros extra At the price of the plane ticket to carry a cabin suitcase up to 10 kg on board. Most of the backpacks offered can be found between 23 and 26 euros so, technically, already It is worth it Opting for such a backpack on a round trip if, as Ryanair points out in his own regular rate we are willing to “travel light”. The phenomenon not only extends to a marketplace such as Amazon or Aliexpress. There are even companies that They have been named Ryanair to the Commercial Denomination of your backpack, as this is sold in El Corte Inglésand marks specialized in backpacks like Minimalism either 1990s They are also taking advantage of the pull to sell specific backpacks to travel with the company. Photos | Amazon, Aliexpress, Minimalism and Soriano Suitcases and Bags In Xataka | Ryanair has spent a year selling so cheap that now his passengers will suffer the consequences: expensive tickets in 2025

A few months ago Ryanair raised her salary to her employees in Spain. Now he is claiming that they return it

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Collective bargaining is a delicate issue in which it is not always easy to satisfy all the parties involved and stay within the legislation. The last example is the negotiation of the I Collective Agreement for Ryanair cabin crew, which brought salary increases Immediate to these workers, but that resulted in their cancellation by the National Court. According to The published by El Confidencial, Now Ryanair asks his workers to return those increases. However, such and as they denounce From the air-sectors union, the airline has imposed a condition for workers not to have to return these salary ups: join CCOO. The beginning of the mess: a unilateral collective agreement. In October 2022, the Irish airline and the CCOO union signed the I Collective Agreement for cabin crew. As collected The economistThe agreement contemplated regular annual salary increases for three years until April 2025 for these employees, as well as a change in the fixed and variable remuneration structure. The problem is that, according to the Air-Sector-Sector union, which represents 22.9% of the Ryanair template, the agreement was prepared at a negotiating table that left out the representatives of much of the staff. That caused the union to present an appeal for nullity that the National Court has confirmed canceling The validity of the agreement signed. Ryanair applied an unsigned agreement. The regulations establish that all collective agreements They must register in the General Directorate of Labor before starting to be applied. Since the use union presented an appeal for nullity before justice, the General Directorate of Labor did not process the agreement until justice was pronounced in this regard. However, and despite not having fulfilled that regulatory process, Ryanair applied the salary increases agreed in the agreement that signed unilaterally with CCOO from October 2024. Now, given the recognition of nullity of the National Court, Ryanair claims to his cabin crew members of the return of between 1,000 and 4,000 euros that, according to the case, according to the case, according to the case, according to the case, according to the case, according to the case of salary increase. According to the representatives of air-sectors “the agreement” The agreement was signed without prior consultation to the workfor Ryanair’s claim. According to sources mentioned by The confidentialand confirmed For the air user, the airline is sending letters to its cabin crew claiming the immediate return of the salary increase that was paid between October 2024 and April 2025. In its letter, the company offers to recognize the debt and claims to be “willing to offer you a payment plan in 12 monthly installments, with deductions that will begin on the payroll of June”. The amount varies according to each case, but moves between 1,000 euros and more than 4,000 euros per employee, for undue salary increases. If you join CCOO there is no debt. Another alternative proposed by the Irish company to solve the problem is to join the CCOO union, automatically cond by this salary “debt”. “To minimize the impact of the annulment of the collective agreement by use, this agreement is applicable to CCOO affiliates,” they point out from use. In a statement signed by Lisa McCormack, Ryanair Human Resources Director, to which It has had access The confidentialthe person in charge indicated that: “If any worker is not affiliated with CCOO since the previous limited agreement ended and the collective agreement was annulled, but wishes to take advantage of this limited field agreement, you must directly contact CCOO. We have agreed with CCOO that those who are afraid can now maintain their current working conditions (…) This limited range agreement is the only feasible way to protect your salary.” The company has chosen its union. In its statement, air-user, it qualifies as a “harassment and demolition to which Ryanair is subjecting to the cabin crew non-affiliates to CCOO to affil Organic Law on Freedom“ Raquel Bautista, head of Use-Ryanair, pointed out that the condition of “forgiving” the alleged debt to CCOO affiliates is “a master play they want to use to erase Ryanair’s union map after years of sentences won, and only stay with their trust union.” Neither CCOO nor Ryanair have responded to Xataka’s information requests on this subject, but we will update this article if they do. In Xataka | The great secret of Ryanair’s success is that he does not earn money to fly: he does so squeezing you in everything else Image | Ryanair

Ryanair has been carefree for time for delays on his flights. And in Zaragoza a judge has decided to make him pay

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There are sentences that seem anecdotal but, basically, have their importance. When a judge opts in favor of one side or another it is important because he is not only offering his vision of a fact, he is raiding the way for, in the future, his sentence is taken as a sentence for a similar case. When these decisions are made by a superior court, it is called jurisprudence And it serves, as we said, to apply the same criteria in the future. In spite of everything, the conclusions of the lower organs are also important because they can serve as the basis for defense or accusation later. That is why it is important to attend to the results that Ryanair is receiving in the courts. In recent months, with the Fund government finemost of the news that arrives are related to the collection by the cabin suitcase. Sentences that are important because, even, Justice itself does not seem to agree. Despite this, the company continues to receive complaints for another series of reasons. A few days ago the case of an old man who was prevented from returning to Spain was viracied because Ryanair workers assured that the document with which he was flying was not valid. They defended that the permanent ID, that in Spain it is given to people with more than 70 yearsit could not be used as a legal document to fly. Now we have known that Ryanair has received a new varapalo. You will have to compensate a passenger for the delay of a flight. Not because of the fact of being late, specifically because the judge who has led the case is clear that the company did not put all possible means to ensure that the flight left in time. Lighting, which is gerund The news brings it eldiario.eswho echoes the judgment of the Court of First Instance number 10 of Zaragoza. Its headline has confirmed that Ryanair will have to disburse 250 euros to compensate for a passenger who saw his flight delayed in three hours. The important thing here is that the judge points out that nothing extraordinary did not happen so that The flight will be delayedpulling the main defense argument of the company. This allegation is what the airlines usually use to try to deny compensation due to a flight delay, such as It can be read on the company’s own website. According to the claims platform. (who has led the defense of the passenger)many times they are told passengers that “they have no right to compensation because the incidence has occurred due to a cause of force majeure that was unpredictable for the airline, but that in many occasions the end of this argument is to avoid economically compensating passengers because in reality such extraordinary circumstance has not been produced.” In this case, the defense of the passenger claimed that the company could have had an alternative plan if they had taken the appropriate measures. Something that the judge coincides who in her letter has stressed that the company was aware that the flight was going to be delayed because in its previous route the plane was already traveling late. However, he did not launch any alternative plan and limited himself, exclusively, to delaying the next flight. For the judge, aware that the flight between Porto and London already circulated with a “serious delay”, the company should have contemplated how it could prevent the flight between London and Zaragoza from being delayed. Instead of letting the dominoes fell, in Ryanair, they should have sought a way to Avoid this last delay But, instead, they simply maintained their initial plan and waited for it to be replicated on the flight of the affected passenger. In her letter, the judge also emphasizes that “the fact that a plane is assigned to several flights in a short period of time only obeys a business decision, cost reduction, etc. but that gives rise to assume a clear risk that an incidence in one of them affects all the remaining flights assigned to the aircraft.” That should not be a reason, however, to correct the problem. The judgment of this Spanish court follows the line of the decreed by the Court of Justice of the European Union (TJUE) That last year he sentenced that airlines have to compensate passengers whenever they fail to demonstrate that they took all reasonable measures to avoid a delay, even in the face of “extraordinary circumstances” that has been based on what their defenses have been based so far. Photo | Ryanair In Xataka | Ryanair has found a new formula to win more for a ticket: force you to 100% digital shipment

Ryanair continues to sell flights at bus price and still earns a lot of money. Your business starts after check-in

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An any of April. Madrid-Milán for 15 euros. The passenger clicks “accept” without thinking. At five clicks – 10 kilos pole, seat selection, priority boarding -, The amount already exceeds 60. Uugh. Ryanair is enough that arithmetic as simple as relentless to show off record benefits while their rivals scratch cents or directly lose money. Where is the magic? Why does its cost structure seem unbeatable? Accounts against intuition Ryanair’s last fiscal year closed with a benefit of almost 2,000 million and a solid growth over 2023: 1,920 million euros of net profit. Year -on -year growth of 34%. 13,440 million euros in income. 183.7 million transported passengers. Average occupation of 94% in its airplanes. All according to Your annual report of 2024. By 2025 it plans to go further, and it is already on the way to exceed 200 million travelers. In a sector where even Lufthansa (4%) or Air France-KLM (2%) barely reach margins of a digit, Ryanair moves comfortably in the environment of 14-15%net profitability, according to Capa analysis. Let’s see why. It does not give benefits to fly, but for everything else Ryanair has been refining a mantra for years: disaggregate the trip to the last screw and collect for everything that happens before, during and after the seat of the plane. There are several concepts there, but first of all, one stands out: that of the Auxiliary incomewhich reached 4.3 billion euros in 2024, one third of the billing, and 23.4 euros per passenger, according to their results report. What are they? Luggage. From the cabin suitcase to billing. From 12 or 13 euros to 75 euros according to the season. Seat and priority. Choose place, travel with the family or the group in contiguous seats or embark first, part of 3 or 4 euros and can reach 35 euros. Sales on board. From snacks and drinks to raffles or Duty-Free. Third Party Commissions. Hotels, rental cars, insurance … Everything is inserted in the purchase flow to capture margin without even their own inventory. Subscriptions and gift cards. As choice fidelity programs. We could put in the equation even to institutional advertising. A reef. Cantabria is paying 18 million euros in four years for Ryanair to “promote” the brand on its website and maintain routes, he revealed eldiario.es. This proposal touches the Freemium And in fact nine years ago The CEO said That “within five to ten years, prices will be free, in that case the flights will be full”, referring to the possibility of monetizing both the aforementioned roads, and with the distribution of airport income. It is not something that has happened or seems that it will happen, at least within the period. The cost that fits in a backpack Ryanair presumes that Fly costs 34 euros per passengernot counting the fuel. The figure comes from an internal slide projected in Milan and exhibited by The Flight Club. If we crumble it … Staff: 8 euros. It lowers it with multipurpose crews and flexible contracts. Airport and Handling: 8 euros. It resorts to local subsidies, bases in secondary (cheaper) airports and the payment of minimum rates Property and maintenance. 8 euros. Its homogeneous fleet of Boeing 737 that lowers with mass orders that derive in large discounts. Routes and navigation. 6 euros. It resorts to point flights, without connections that make the final price more expensive. Others. 4 euros. Little for a minimal business structure and the use of free or low cost viral marketing. To compare: Easyjet, your rival Low Costhas a cost of more than double, 79 euros per person. Wizz Air leaves it at 52 euros. Always without counting the fuel. The traditional ones, such as Lufthansa, can go above 160 euros. That is what we add the increasing number of people who fly with Ryanair. There are four key levers that are worth highlighting: Unique and dense fleet. Those mentioned 737 (has more than half a thousand of thema good part of those of 197 places) consume 16% less fuel per seat and add 4% capacity. Simple mathematics. Express rotation. Since an airplane touches wheels until it takes again as soon as half an hour passes. That allows each plane to fly more hours and distribute amortization on more flights and more seats. Digital approach. He Check-in face -to -face costs 55 euros. A deterrence for most, a tariff for the accommodation in the analog. The result is that 99% do it online and Ryanair barely needs counter. AND wants to go further. Low profile airports. Stansted instead of Heathrow, Beauvais instead of Charles de Gaulle. Rates can be up to 80% cheaper and times direct and indirect public aid in order to preserve routes can compensate. The undercover subsidies, by the way, are overcoming borders and Morocco is following that wake. Spain, perfect laboratory The relationship of Spain with Ryanair is unique. This airline It controls almost 20% of flights that land or take off in Spain. The following in the ranking, at a certain distance, are also Low Cost. Besides, Spain is Ryanair’s second marketonly behind Italy and above the United Kingdom, with 2,416 million euros in revenue last year. However, the Fine of 179 million euros to airlines Low Cost imposed by the Ministry of Consumer in November also Ryanair splashed fully, who was charged 108 of those millionsreceivable hand luggage. O’Leary, the CEO, in its unbridled line, He called “Crazy Communist” Minister Pablo Bustinduy at a press conference threatened to cut routes in protest of what he considered an “illegal” fine. These types of orders are not isolated, but a usual play: it is enough to pronounce that threat to, very often, get the authorities to give up, although sometimes it does not happen and in fact Spain is getting tired of them. Is what has happened for example In Valladolid and Jerez this year. Some airports depend on their traffic in 60%, Ryanair knows it and plays with it in his favor to … Read more

If the question is “I can wear a free hand suitcase with Ryanair”, the response of justice is: it depends

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Win and lose. And along the way a fine continues to float a fine and the consequences derived from it. The sanction to Ryanair receives an extra cost in the hand suitcase continues to leave us sentences and one thing is clear: neither the justice itself agrees. A fine. It all starts last November. One is confirmed Historical fine to four operators. Of these, Ryanair is the most affected. The sanction is 107.78 million euros and is imposed to breach the rights of passengers to carry a hand suitcase without extra cost. At least that is what the government that sanctions the company through consumption. Ryanair, on the contrary, has another opinion. Yes, it accepts that there is a regulation that allows free hand luggage to be carried out but it shields that there are no established measures for it. As there is no “standard” suitcase, they charge to carry the luggage that can be transferred to the winery. What are Ryanair’s conditions? First of all, what we have to know is that Ryanair does let a lump to the cabin. But that is, exclusively a lump that does not exceed the measures of 40 x 20 x 25 cm. That size does not comply with those considered as cabin bags that extend up to 55 x 40 x 20 cm and 10 kg of weight. In that case, in carrying with us a trolley to the cabin of the plane, we will have to pay the fee Regular or priority that opens the door to that usual suitcase in the planes and a second lump such as a backpack or a bag. This game with the diffuse areas of the law, that of not being defined in any regulations what are the exact measures of a suitcase, is the one that the Irish company grabs to defend its position before the demands of the users. Ryanair wins. At least in Seville. There, the company has made the resource of a client who was forced to pay for the cabin suitcase does not prosper. Section 2 of the Mercantile Court of Seville has dismissed the demand filed by the traveler, they explain since The world. The client understood that they were charging 12 euros on a round trip (six per trip) illegally. However, the Sevillian court buys the defense of Ryanair: it is not true that it is prevented from flying with a free suitcase, what Ryanair prevents is accessing with a suitcase superior to the dimensions of 40 x 20 x 25 cm. And they point out that the client was allowed “to carry a lump of reasonable dimensions.” Ryanair loses. At least in Salamanca. There, the company has to return 147 euros to a passenger receivable the cabin suitcase in five different routes between 2019 and 2024, they point out in eldiario.es. The affected person is a Facua partner, an association through which they have filed their demand. In this case, the passenger denounced that the company had forced him to choose the rate Priority to be able to access the cabin of the plane with your hand luggage in which it only wore basic clothes and equipment. The judge has based her decision that “hand luggage is an indispensable element of passenger transport (…) cannot be subject to price supplement,” they collect in The world. Beyond specific cases. What we have, in addition to two contradictory sentences, is that the battle between Ryanair and the Government continues. On the one hand, from the Executive they defend the consumption decision and, on the other, Ryanair continues to show that the sentences in which they obtain favorable results They are certification that the company “fully complies with the legislation of the European Union.” The problem for passengers is that the pulse between Ryanair and Government has overflowed and is affecting peripheral airports, where the company had a substantial role in air traffic and where is marching as a pressure measure To the Executive. In fact, the company has insisted that if Aena’s rates do not fall in the future (the excuse to reduce the presence in these places) will continue to derive its operations To other places. Operations like its new line to Morocco that despite the low volume of occupation keeps open thanks to a government doping. Doping that, by the way, We have also applied in Spain. Photo | Fotis In Xataka | Choosing seat to fly has become a luxury. Now Ryanair has his own subscription to assure you

Spain made the subsidies covered to Ryanair an art. Now another country follows its path: Morocco

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Ryanair will stop offering 800,000 places This summer of 2025 in Spain. It was an announcement that fell like a bomb in the middle of the dispute that government and airline have open in relation to the rates that Aena charges the companies that operate in their airports. According to Ryanair, Las Aena rates They are abusive and from the company that manages Spanish airports they defend themselves ensuring that they are essential to guarantee, among other services, the security or cleaning of the facilities. The problem is that Aena had these frozen rates from 2021 and thus had to remain until 2026. However, last year they rose and although The CNMC frozen the rate againnow companies pay 4.9% more than before. In the middle of the dispute, Ryanair was also fined by the State for breaching, in his opinion, the regulations of the hand luggage. Together with other low-cost companies such as Vueling, Norweigan, Easyjet or Volotea, the Irish company was punished but it was also the one that took the worst part: a sanction of 107.78 million euros. This cluster of circumstances led the company to press where it hurts the most in Spanish air mobility: Provinces airports. Ryanair announced that he partially abandoned the airports of Vigo, Santiago, Zaragoza, Asturias and Santander. But, above all, he announced that he was completely left by Jerez and Valladolid. The movement has not been there because In its February statementRyanair already announced that he considered taking action in the same direction if the context did not change. A threat that has recently reiterated. However, then Eddie Wilson, his CEO, already pointed out that “Aena’s decision not to encourage airlines to use the missed capacity of their regional airports has forced Ryanair to relocate aircraft and capacity in more competitive European markets, such as Italy, Sweden, Croatia, Hungary and Morocco, where governments encourage actively growth. “ Now we check the consequences. Empty seats “Ryanair’s airplanes They will attend where there is business opportunity, whether by direct market or by public subsidy. “This is how Víctor P. currás summarizes in The Faro de Vigo The situation with which they have been found in the Galician city with the 61% reduction of the activity of the Irish company in its city. When Wilson pointed out that they would fly to countries “where governments incentive” did not lie. Ryanair has closed a line between Vigo and Barcelona that maintained an average occupation of 90% in favor of a New route to Morocco where just 9% of the seats are busy. These flights are those corresponding to the route that Ryanair has opened with origin in Madrid or Lanzarote and destination Daklha, a Moroccan city in the Sahara that is trying to promote itself as an active tourism. It is another measure within a project you want Transform the city into an economic complex reference in the area. The intention is to turn the city into a showcase for the world during the 2030 World Cup (What Morocco shares with Spain). This is the reason why Ryanair flies with such a low occupation to the Moroccan city. Fatim-Zahra Ammor, Minister of Tourism of Morocco, announced the arrival of the company A few months ago. Behind, obviously, a juicy subsidy in the form of an advertising contract for Ryanair. They collect in the Galician environment that the occupation rate has been poor. The best data has arrived from Madrid with just over 50% occupation. However, the reserved places have been deflating on the Route of Lanzarote to the point of not even reaching 10% of the total offer. This way of acting is nothing less new. In fact, in eldiario.es They explained well that the subsidies camouflaged as advertising contracts to keep the routes in provincial airports alive are a constant for years. By suppuerto, Ryanair has benefited in this way to act. Three examples. The Cantabria government delivered 18 million euros in public promotion to Ryanair. Vigo maintained a route with London in exchange for a disbursement of 625,000 euros in the form of an advertising contract. With the suppression of this connection, Vigo wants sanction the airline with more than 17,000 euros for breaking the contract unilaterally. In 2019, Ryanair maintained routes in Spain by value of 239 million euros of public moneyaccording to ELECONOMIST. Ryanair now applies in Morocco the same formula he has applied in Spain. The company has used Spanish airports in the provinces to press and, aware that New aircraft will not reach them In the short term, these advertising contracts are especially juicy when reorganizing their routes. Photo | Nastya Dulhiier In Xataka | Ryanair does not “fine” if you lose your flight: simply relieved you in the following for a cost of 100 euros

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