Ryanair threatens to sue European Commission
Ryanair has condemned the European Commission's plans investigate the airline's costs base at Lubeck and Tampere airports and says it will sue the Comission for what it describes as its "repeated failure" to take action on a number of complaints about State aid to other airlines.
Ryanair accuses the Comission of ignoring the "blatant State Aid being doled out to Europe’s largest flag carriers including Air France, Alitalia, Lufthansa and Olympic".
Ryanair’s Spokesman, Peter Sherrard said: "Today’s announcement proves that the European Commission has a biased approach to State Aid investigations.
"It continues to ignore €billions of State Aid to flag carrier airlines in the form of discounted domestic charges, exclusive use of terminal facilities and annual bail outs to Alitalia and Olympic Airlines, yet at the same time the Commission is wasting time and resources investigating the cost base of small secondary airports such as Lubeck and Tampere, which without Ryanair would have no traffic at all, or the main airports of secondary cities such as Berlin and Dortmund, which would have far smaller traffic numbers were it not for the services provided by Easyjet."
