MIAMI – Ryanair’s (FR) O’Leary is again up against the EU Commission on aid granted to airlines as relief amid the COVID-19 crisis.
According to Business Travel and the French financial newspaper Les Echo, FR has filed a number of legal actions – at least a dozen according to the former outlet – attacking the legality of European aid to several ailing European airlines.
Ryanair grievances concern, besides direct state aid, the indirect aid consisting in deferred payments of civil aviation taxes, which normally feeds the Civil Aviation budget, solidarity tax used to fight epidemics in poor countries as well as Eurocontrol read more ⇒
Source:: “Airways Magazine”