Ryanair will raise the prices of its plane tickets in Spain two or three euros if the Minister of Social Rights and Consumption, Pablo Bustinduy, does not turn back in his intention to fine it already three other Low Cost airlines with 179 million receivable for the luggage hand. The CEO of the Irish company, Michael O’Leary, has urged consumption to be reversing the fine during a press conference in Madrid in which he has called “clown” or “crazy minister” to Bustinduy and in the which has been photographed along with a cardboard statue with its face and disguised as a clown.
As O’Leary explained, Ryanair will wait until he sees what the resource in consumption ends against the fine that she and the other fouched companies .., something that will happen around the month of May. If the fine is maintained, then it is when they will proceed to go up “from two to three euros” the prices of the plane tickets, he said next to one of the aftershocks in Bustindy cardboard dressed as a clown dressed with a apron in which It could be read “I [corazón] Upload prices. “
The price increase would stop apply In recent months he has limited himself to asking for information from the different EU countries that, like Spain, are fine the airlines that charge their passengers for carrying luggage in the cabin of the plane.
Ryanair feeds that it is “illegal” and argues that European legislation recognizes the freedom of airlines to set the price of their services and that “prevents” EU governments “interfering” in this aspect. On the contrary, it challenges the law of the 66 that invokes Bustinduy to set the fine of 179 million, surpassed by community legislation. “The only person who does not comply with the law is the clown Bustinduy,” who has reproached him again to be a “communist minister.”
“Community airlines [de la UE] And, on the basis of the principle of reciprocity, those of third countries, will freely fix the rates and freight of intra -community air services, “recalls that he says community regulation.
In addition, Ryanair supports his opposition to the government intervening – in this case, through a fine -shaped penalty – in the amount that his passengers must charge for carrying the luggage in the cabin in a response that in 2014 gave the EU Court of Justice (TUE) to the prejudicial question posed or not in line with the EU legislation and even with the Spanish law to demand, in this case to Vueling, that he recognized his passengers the right to invoice a suitcase without extra cost or survey with respect to the price paid by the ticket. O’Leary has also alluded to this case, promoted by another of the “crazy politicians” who has said that there is in Spain and also gave the reason to the airline, by establishing a distinction between their obligation to allow passengers to go up to the plane With its personal objects but without meaning this that should be a suitcase with certain measures, something that O’Leary has rejected on Tuesday for reasons of space in the plane and even security and even comfort, defending that it would be best for the Passengers will travel with no luggage.
“Everyone is very clear about politics [de equipajes]”O’Leary said, which has excluded Bustinduy from this alleged consensus and has left free hand luggage for large airlines, which had the monopoly, he said, until Ryanair and other companies arrived a few decades ago and other companies to allow that Europeans “fly through Europe for 25 euros.”
“No insult is going to intimidate me”
It is not the first time since the consumption fine that O’Leary loads against the Minister of Social Rights was set, that a couple of hours before the press conference at the Ryanair offices has insisted on the Press Room of Moncloa in which he will continue to apply “rigorously” the law in defense of consumer rights and that O’Leary’s “pressures” were not going to “intimidate.”
“Obviously this is an issue in which different interests collide, the defense of the rights of very powerful consumers and commercials. I am the Minister of Consumption and my obligation is to defend the right of citizens and consumers and no insult He is going to intimidate me in this task, “Bustinduy said.
Activity reduction in 2025 and conflict with bridge
The fine receivable for carrying hand luggage is not the only contentious that Ryanair currently has with the Spanish government, after a few weeks ago the announcement would stop operating in five regional airports and reduce its activity in Two others if Aena did not lower the rates caused a tense exchange of messages between the two that keeps the issue still unsolved. Without Ryanair, he is willing to turn in his plans for 2025 and without the Minister of Transportation, Oscar Puente, to be willing to meet with O’Leary if he does not.
With a very different tone from the derogatory comments that he has dedicated to Bustinduy, O’Leary has claimed to have “very good relations” with the central government and with the autonomous affected by this last decision and, although he has assured not having “changed his mind “On the reduction of Ryanair’s presence in 2025, he has relying that he can talk about the descent of Aena rates at regional airports by 2026.
However, Puente remains in not wanting to establish negotiations with Ryanair until, precisely, the company does not reverse its reduction plan in 2025. About this refusal, O’Leary has sent a challenging message: “That Minister Puente I don’t want to meet with me, I know transport ministers throughout Europe. “
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