The cowboys of the air Ryanair have made an annoucement today to impose a €2 charge on all bookings made from the 4th April.
They bleat that this is to offset the costs of of compensation mandated by EU 261/2004 for delays or cancellations of flights.
Ryanair bleats:
“It is unfair and discriminatory that airlines are made liable for providing refunds, meals, hotels and phone calls during ATC strikes, bad weather airport closures or (volcanic) airspace closures when even travel insurance companies avoid liability during these ‘force majeure’ events and when competing transport providers (rail, ferries and coach operators) have no such ‘force majeure’ liability”
Well, if you play hard and fast with booking policies, this is what happens Ryanair.
The company suffered extraordinary costs of more than €100 million ($141 million) in 2010 mainly due to the volcano incident and the Air traffic control strikes
Whilst Ryanair says “all costs are up front”, this is just yet another fee that you can’t opt out of.
One which you won’t pay with say… oooh ANY OTHER CARRIER OUT THERE.
