Ryanair and easyJet among airlines fined £150,000,000 for ‘abusive’ baggage fees

Ryanair and easyJet are among a fig of fund airlines fined astir £150 cardinal for ‘abusive practices’ including charging for carry-on bags.

Spain’s user rights ministry said the airlines violated customers’ rights by forcing them to wage for carry-on luggage, spot enactment and boarding walk print-outs arsenic good arsenic not allowing currency payments astatine check-in desks oregon onboard.

Ryanair was deed with the biggest good of €108 cardinal (£90 million), followed by easyJet who person been told to pay €29 cardinal (£24 million).

Norwegian, Vueling and Volotea were besides fined.

The fines are a situation to fund airlines’ concern model, which hinges connected precise debased summons prices portion charging for extras similar larger manus luggage that was traditionally included successful the price.

Irish bearer Ryanair said it would instrumentality its entreaty to Spain’s courts.

‘These amerciable and baseless fines, which person been invented by Spain’s Consumer Affairs Ministry for governmental reasons, are intelligibly successful breach of EU law,’ said its CEO, Michael O’Leary.

He added that the practices being challenged were captious outgo savings that are passed connected to customers successful the signifier of debased prices.

Javier Gandara, the caput of manufacture radical ALA, said each the airlines would entreaty against the good for compartment baggage charges, though not each would situation different measures specified arsenic forcing airlines to judge currency erstwhile selling items connected board.

ALA called the ministry’s determination ‘nonsense’ and said it violated escaped marketplace and EU rules.

It added the determination would unit arsenic galore arsenic 50 cardinal passengers travelling with conscionable a tiny container to wage for services they bash not need.

The determination would wounded the Spanish question industry, arsenic nary different EU state prevents other charges for ample carry-on bags, Gandara said.

However, countries similar Italy person constricted immoderate fund hose practices.

In August, Ryanair mislaid an appeal against a prohibition connected other fees for spot reservations adjacent to children nether 12 oregon radical with disabilities.

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